In Their Own Words

Bracing reading today in the Guardian. Fifty American veterans of the Iraq war were interviewed and talked about the effects of their actions on Iraqi civilians. One quotation:

'For Sergeant Westphal, that night was a turning point. "I just remember thinking to myself, I just brought terror to someone else under the American flag, and that's just not what I joined the Army to do," he said.'

Read it all here.