http://www.alternet.org/waroniraq/56761/
Interviews with 50 Iraq war veterans reveal disturbing patterns of
behavior by US troops in Iraq against innocent civilians -- brutal acts
that often go unreported and almost always go unpunished.
Confessions from U.S. Soldiers in Iraq on the Brutal Treatment of Civilians
By Chris Hedges and Laila Al-Arian, The Nation. Posted July 13, 2007.
Over the past several months The Nation has interviewed fifty combat
veterans of the Iraq War from around the United States in an effort to
investigate the effects of the four-year-old occupation on average Iraqi
civilians. These combat veterans, some of whom bear deep emotional and
physical scars, and many of whom have come to oppose the occupation, gave
vivid, on-the-record accounts. They described a brutal side of the war
rarely seen on television screens or chronicled in newspaper accounts.
Their stories, recorded and typed into thousands of pages of transcripts,
reveal disturbing patterns of behavior by American troops in Iraq.
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