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winter.jpgΔωδεκάδες των παλαιμάχων από τις ΗΠΑ. η κατοχή του Ιράκ σύγκλινε σε αυτήν την πόλη δυτικών ακτών κατά τη διάρκεια του Σαββατοκύριακου για να μοιραστεί τις ιστορίες των αγριοτήτων που δεσμεύονται καθημερινά στο Ιράκ, σε μια συνέχεια των ακροάσεων «χειμερινών στρατιωτών» που έγιναν την ασημένια άνοιξη, Μέρυλαντ το Μάρτιο.

Από Dahr Jamail | Στην πόλης αίθουσα του Σιάτλ, περίπου 800 άνθρωποι σύλλεξαν για να ακούσουν τις καταθέσεις των παλαιμάχων από το Ιράκ. Το γεγονός υποστηρίχτηκε από τους παλαιμάχους του βορειοδυτικού περιφερειακούς Ιράκ ενάντια στον πόλεμο (IVAW), και επικυρώθηκε από τις δωδεκάδες των τοπικών και περιφερειακών αντιπολεμικών ομάδων όπως τους παλαιμάχους για την ειρήνη και τους σπουδαστές για μια δημοκρατική κοινωνία.

«πρόσεξα την ιρακινή αστυνομία φέρνω σε κάποιο για να ρωτήσω,» Seth Manzel, ένας διοικητής οχημάτων και ένας οπλίτης μηχανών στις ΗΠΑ. Ο στρατός, είπε το ακροατήριο. «Υπεάρξαν τέσσερα άτομα στο φυλακισμένο… που κάποιος τα νεφρά του με τις πυγμές του, άλλο παρενέβαλλε ένα μπουκάλι επάνω το ορθό έντερό του. Εμοίασε με έναν συμμορία-βιασμό σπιτιών frat.»

Το Manzel προσχώρησε στο στρατό μετά από το 9/11 για οικονομικούς λόγους - ακριβώς σταματημένος, και η σύζυγός του είχε ακριβώς ένα μωρό. Το Manzel είπε μια άλλη ιστορία των στρατιωτικών γιατρών που ήταν με σε Tal μακρυά ποιος αρνήθηκε να θεραπεύσει ένα ηλικιωμένο άτομο στο κέντρο κράτησης τους. Το Manzel περιέγραψε τον ηληκιωμένο ως ικτερικό και στο έδαφος, που στον πόνο.

«Οι γιατροί είπαν ότι ο ηληκιωμένος ήταν ακριβώς οκνηρός και δεν εξουσιοδοτήθηκαν για να θεραπεύσουν τους κρατουμένους,» Manzel εν λόγω.

Critchfield του Ιαν. ελειτούργησε ως δημοσιογράφος στρατού ενώ συνδέεται με το 1$ο ιππικό στη Βαγδάτη κατά τη διάρκεια του 2004. «ήμουν με μια μονάδα ότι πυροβολισμός σε ένα άτομο και μια σύζυγο κοντά σε ένα σημείο ελέγχου,» Critchfield εν λόγω, «είχε πυροβοληθεί μέσω του κνημιαίου οστού της, και αυτή ήταν η πρώτη ιστορία που κάλυψα στο Ιράκ.»

Το Critchfield είπε στο ακροατήριο ότι δικοί του η εργασία στο Ιράκ ήταν «αντίθετοι τα φιλελεύθερα μέσα προκατειλημμένα» για το επάγγελμα.

“Our target audience was in the U.S., and the emphasis was reporting on humanitarian aid missions the military conducted,” Critchfield said. “I don’t know how many stories I reported on chicken drops (distributing frozen chickens in a community). I don’t know what else you can call that, other than propaganda. I would find the highest ranking person I could get, and quote them verbatim without fact checking anything they said.”

Other veterans told of lax rules of engagement that led to the slaughter of innocent civilians in Iraq.

“We were told we’d be deploying to Iraq and that we needed to get ready to have little kids and women shoot at us,” Sergio Kochergin, a former Marine who served two deployments in Iraq, told the audience. “It was an attempt to portray Iraqis as animals. We were supposed to do humanitarian work, but all we did was harass people, drive like crazy on the streets, pretending it was our city and we could do whatever we wanted to do.”

As the other veterans on the panel nodded in agreement, Kochergin continued, “We were constantly told everybody there wants to kill you, everybody wants to get you. In the military, we had racism within every rank and it was ridiculous. It seemed like a joke, but that joke turned into destroying peoples’ lives in Iraq.”

“I was in Husaiba with a sniper platoon right on the Syrian border and we would basically go out on the town and search for people to shoot,” Kochergin said. “The rules of engagement (ROE) got more lenient the longer we were there. So if anyone had a bag and a shovel, we were to shoot them. We were allowed to take our shots at anything that looked suspicious. And at that point in time, everything looked suspicious.”

Kochergin added, “Later on, we had no ROE at all. If you see something that doesn’t seem right, take them out.” He concluded by saying, “Enough is enough, it’s time to get out of there.”

Doug Connor was a first lieutenant in the army and worked as a surgical nurse in Iraq. While there he worked as part of a combat support unit, and said most of the patients he treated were Iraqi civilians.

“There were so many people that needed treatment we couldn’t take all of them,” he said. “When a bombing happened and 45 patients were brought to us, it was always Americans treated first, then Kurds, then the Arabs.”

Connor added quietly, “It got to the point where we started calling the Iraqi patients ‘range balls’ because, just like on the driving range (in golf), you don’t care about losing them.”

Channan Suarez Diaz was a navy hospital corpsman who returned from Iraq with a purple heart, among other medals. He served in Ramadi from September 2004 to February 2005 with a weapons company. He is now the Seattle Chapter president of IVAW.

“Our commanding officer wanted us to go through a route that another platoon did and was completely wiped out in an ambush,” Diaz explained. “We refused. They canceled that mission and we didn’t go. I don’t think these are isolated incidents. I think this is happening every day in Iraq. The military doesn’t want you to know about this, because it’s kind of like lighting a fire in a prairie.”

The first Winter Soldier event was organised in 1971 by Vietnam Veterans Against the War in response to a growing list of human rights violations occurring in Vietnam.

From Mar. 13-16, 2008, IVAW held a national conference titled “Winter Solider: Iraq and Afghanistan” outside Washington, DC. The four-day event brought together veterans from across the country to testify about their experiences in Iraq and Afghanistan.

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