The Other War

The Nation has an 11 page investigative report that opens a window into what goes on in a War Theater of Operation.

Those who have served in Combat Theaters, as myself, be they Combat Troops or Support know full well what is going on around them and in the theaters of those operations, words and actions travel fast.

And the ones that know the reality even better are the Citizens who live in these countries that are turned into the realities of Hell's on Earth. They know what happens almost instantly after it has occurred.

The investigative report is called The Other War: Iraq Vets Bear Witness

And starts with this:

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.

Want to find out who our troops are really fighting in Iraq, go over and read the report.

Want to find out why the insurgency, in their own country, doesn't wane, go over and read the report.

Want to find out why there is growing numbers of military personal, once again, showing and feeling the results of Combat PTSD, go over and read the report.

Court cases, such as the ones surrounding the massacre in Haditha and the rape and murder of a 14-year-old in Mah­mudiya, and news stories in the Washington Post, Time, the London Independent and elsewhere based on Iraqi accounts have begun to hint at the wide extent of the attacks on civilians. Human rights groups have issued reports, such as Human Rights Watch's Hearts and Minds: Post-war Civilian Deaths in Baghdad Caused by U.S. Forces, packed with detailed incidents that suggest that the killing of Iraqi civilians by occupation forces is more common than has been acknowledged by military authorities.

Want to find out why there willbe major Blowback from the failed policies over these last 5yrs., go over and read the report.

Want to find out what multible tours are doing to normal human beings, far beyond what military training could ever accomplish in totally restructuring ones mind, go over and read the report, and keep in the front of your mind what it is doing to the residents of that once country and society.

Want to get a window into what this country, and others, will be facing in the coming future, and probably for decades beyond, go over and read the report.

And when whatever is coming comes, don't ask the question of 9/11 "Why do they hate us so?", know the answer, as we should have, from our past policies, well before 9/11!!