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For an article titled "Veterans recall horrors of war in live broadcast" Badkhen interviewed several soldiers. Her article is unemotional and straight-forward but my stomach still turned when reading the facts of what goes on.
Where are the rest? If the media hides the truth along with the government then we are nearing a state of totalitarianism.
An exerpt:
Jeffery Smith recalled how his Army unit beat and humiliated Iraqi prisoners. Former Marine Bryan Casler recounted how fellow Marines urinated and defecated into food and gave it to Iraqi children. Former Marine Matthew Childers talked about how he used to humiliate Iraqi civilians during predawn raids on their homes. When he described turning away an Iraqi father who was asking American troops to help the badly burned baby he carried in his arms, Jackson began to weep silently.
"These soldiers are saying: 'I'm complicit,' " said Jackson, 29, a community organizer from Cambridge. "But every American citizen who saw this happen and isn't out there protesting is complicit. I include myself."
Indeed. Have you protested the Iraq Occupation?
If not, why the hell not?
