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American GIs Reflect on Iraq War Five Years After Invasion

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“Since we went and did all this damage, I really think we have a moral obligation to help them rebuild,” Gagne added.

Gates argued that the more than 4,000 American soldiers who have died in Iraq to date "would have died in vain" if the U.S. were to leave Iraq now.

“I know a lot of people are saying 'Bring the troops home,' and I respect that, because they don’t want anything to happen,” Gates said, “but I think that if we started something, we should finish it. But I don’t know how exactly we should finish it.”

Gates is looking to return to Iraq with soldiers he would train before deployment. “I kind of like the stress of it all, I guess,” Gates said. “It’s kind of messed up, but I just like being stressed out. It was good money, but it’s the kind of thing that I like doing.”

The first principle of Iraq Veterans Against the War is complete and immediate troop withdrawal.
"Violence in Iraq will continue as the occupation progresses, Howard said. “Until we stop the violence we are the catalyst. Every innocent Iraqi citizen we kill creates more resistance. Every Marine they kill creates more Iraqi civilian deaths. That is the fundamental crux of the occupation.”

Turner is now a changed man.

“I apologize for the lives that I have destroyed,” Turner said in closing at Winter Soldier. “I apologize for the families that I have destroyed; I apologize for the buildings and homes that I have destroyed. The men that I killed, I don’t even know their names, I don’t think I want to know their names.”

(Additional reporting by Deanna Kaiser.)

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