US Soldiers testify about war crimes in Afghanistan and Iraq

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3-24-2008 11:35 AM

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/a60bbb3e-e004-44a8-b174-76c56386f1ba/9D21E60D-FCCD-441E-8672-EB80C075CAE0/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://theroadtothehorizon.blogspot.com/2008/03/news-us-soldiers-testify-about-war.html" href="http://theroadtothehorizon.blogspot.com/2008/03/news-us-soldiers-testify-about-war.html" style="font-size: 11px;">theroadtothehorizon.blogspot.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://theroadtothehorizon.blogspot.com/2008/03/news-us-soldiers-testify-about-war.html"><P><A title="" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/theroadtothehorizon/2343935970/"><IMG width="400" height="276" alt="" src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2220/2343935970_b8313fdd82_o.jpg" /></A><BR /><BR /><DIV>Dozens of Iraq and Afghanistan war veterans publicly testified this weekend about crimes they committed during the course of battle, many of which were prompted by the orders or policies laid down by superior officers. </DIV><BR />The weekend gathering, called <A target="_blank" href="http://ivaw.org/wintersoldier">the Winter Soldier Event</A> demonstrated that well-publicized incidents of U.S. brutality, including the Abu Ghraib prison scandal and the massacre of an entire family of Iraqis in the town of Haditha, are not isolated incidents perpetrated by "a few bad apples," as many politicians and military leaders have claimed. They are part of a pattern, the organizers said, of "an increasingly bloody occupation." <BR /><DIV>One testimony:</DIV><BR /></P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/9D21E60D-FCCD-441E-8672-EB80C075CAE0/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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