U.S. Soldier Tell Of Rape and Suicide of 15 Year Old Iraqi Girl

Video - Should only be watched by a mature audience

"Anyone with a rag on his head is fair game."

Abusing Iraqi Civilians

By Bob Herbert
There is no upside to this war. It has been a plague since the beginning. But it's one thing to lose a war. It's much worse for a nation to lose its soul.

The Other War: Iraq Vets Bear Witness

A Must Read - By Chris Hedges and Laila al-Arian

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.