"I Think We Got Blown Up for Nothing"

Like an untold number of U.S. soldiers in Iraq, the brave young men of Bravo Troop were lab rats in a slipshod military experiment. Theirs is the story of everything that's gone wrong in this great fiasco of a war.

A little more than halfway into their year-long tour of duty, with one dead and more than a dozen others wounded by improvised explosive devices, the young men of Bravo Troop found themselves thinking about a quiet little city where such mayhem would have been unfathomable. Full Story »

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Dwight Rousu
3.7
by Dwight Rousu - Oct. 1, 2008

The gory details of suppressing resistance as an occupation force are laid out at length. The story provides a good counterpoint to stories glorifying war.

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3.7

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3.6
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4.0
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3.0
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3.0
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3.0
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4.0
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