What followed were four days of gripping testimony, ranging from firsthand accounts of the murder of Iraqi civilians, the dehumanization of Iraqis and Afghans that undergirds the violence of the occupations, to the toll that violence takes on the soldiers themselves and the inadequate care they receive upon returning home. Full Story »
Posted by Dwight Rousu
A fine first-person description of the Winter Soldier event, which I attended. Wish the format allowed for greater coverage. Winter Soldier was underreported, IMHO, across all media - mainstream, commercial media ignored it, and the alternative or independent press was nominally present (AlterNet, the Nation, KPFA and Aaron Glantz, Amy Goodman and Laura Flanders, the NY Indypendent, FSTV).
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The article deals with the burden of this invasion and occupation upon the soldiers and upon the people of the invaded country as witnessed to by returned veterans. The eywitness accounts themselves can be viewed at ivaw.org , the site for Iraq Veterans Against the War.
This opinion piece has little merit. The author did no research before writing about the speakers at this meeting. Otherwise she would have known that the "Winter Soldiers" of 1971 made claims that have been thoroughly disproven by every major historian (and that John Kerry's 2004 campaign suffered from his idiotic claims in 1971). There is no context about Iraq and the horrendous suffering of its peoples under Saddam Hussein, the most murderous dictator of his time--and the first major mass murderer to be tried by his own people (Hitler, Stalin, Mao, Pol Pot, ... were never tried; other Nazis were tried by international tribunals not their own country). The author needs to study history and current events before writing down ... More »
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