Iraqi civilian casualties

The Other War: Iraq Vets Bear Witness

by CHRIS HEDGES & LAILA AL-ARIAN
The Nation
[from the July 30, 2007 issue]
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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.