Website review: Winter Soldiers Sound Off | The Pro...
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Aeneas101 discovered 4 months ago- Now the Iraq Veterans start to speak out like the Vietnam vets before From the page: ""We've heard from the politicians, from the generals, from the media--now it's our turn," said Kelly Dougherty, executive director of Iraq Veterans Against the War. Dougherty, who served in Iraq in 2003 as a military police officer, said, "It's not going to be easy to hear what we have to say. It's not going to be easy for us to tell it. But we believe that the only way this war is going to end is if the American people truly understand what we have done in their name." When I was reporting from Iraq for eight months on and off between November 2003 and February 2005, Iraqis told me of atrocities U.S. soldiers were committing. The accounts now from soldiers themselves confirm an awful picture."
- rationale rated 3 months ago
- I cannot stress this enough. I cannot post enough reviews of this testimony. It is essential that every American realize what these soldiers are doing in our name. These individuals are manipulated by the U.S. government and war machine into torturing kids, among all kinds of other sick shit. INTERNALIZE THIS. "Atrocity-producing situations," he wrote, occur when a power structure sets up an environment where "ordinary people, men or women no better or worse than you or I, can regularly commit atrocities. . . . This kind of atrocity-producing situation . . . surely occurs to some degrees in all wars, including World War II, our last `good war.' But a counterinsurgency war in a hostile setting, especially when driven by profound ideological distortions, is particularly prone to sustained atrocity--all the more so when it becomes an occupation."
- stevedtrm rated 3 months ago
- From the page: "Moon brought back a video that shows his sergeant declaring, â€oeThe difference between an insurgent and an Iraqi civilian is whether they are dead or alive.” Moon explains the thinking: â€oeIf you kill a civilian he becomes an insurgent because you retroactively make that person a threat.”"
- CiscoMatisse rated 3 months ago
- Moon brought back a video that shows his sergeant declaring, "The difference between an insurgent and an Iraqi civilian is whether they are dead or alive." Moon explains the thinking: "If you kill a civilian he becomes an insurgent because you retroactively make that person a threat."
- BettyJoBradley rated 3 months ago
- This article "Winter Soldiers Sound Off" contains details of the atrocities US soldiers have been committing during this current war, as told by the veterans who have returned from Iraq. It all makes me a bit sick and I'm not posting the details here, but I will SARCASTICALLY say what I think about the war in general and the atrocities in particular. "Hail to the Chief!" "Good for us liberators!" Yeah, right.
- blacsoc rated 3 months ago
- From the page: "â€oeAn Iraqi was once selling soda out of a motorcycle to soldiers in a waiting convoy,” says Moon. â€oeIn the side-car was his seven-to-eight-year-old child. When the man refused to go away, the MP on patrol put him to the ground with a gun to his head and started stripping his vehicle and searching it. They then took the child, picked it up into the air, and threw it full force onto the ground. I didnâ€t see the child get up.”"
- landers53 rated 4 months ago
- Here are some more Iraq war veterans who are telling it like it is in Iraq. From the page: We've heard from the politicians, from the generals, from the media - now it's our turn," said Kelly Dougherty, executive director of Iraq Veterans Against the War. Dougherty, who served in Iraq in 2003 as a military police officer, said, "It's not going to be easy to hear what we have to say. It's not going to be easy for us to tell it. But we believe that the only way this war is going to end is if the American people truly understand what we have done in their name."ť When I was reporting from Iraq for eight months on and off between November 2003 and February 2005, Iraqis told me of atrocities U.S. soldiers were committing. The accounts now from soldiers themselves confirm an awful picture.
- josi11 rated 4 months ago
- From the page: "We've heard from the politicians, from the generals, from the media-now it's our turn," said Kelly Dougherty, executive director of Iraq Veterans Against the War. Dougherty, who served in Iraq in 2003 as a military police officer, said,It's not going to be easy to hear what we have to say. It's not going to be easy for us to tell it. But we believe that the only way this war is going to end is if the American people truly understand what we have done in their name.ť"
