Tuesday, June 3rd, 2008 周二， 2008年6月3日 
Dozens of veterans from the US occupation of Iraq converged in this west coast city over the weekend to share stories of atrocities being committed daily in Iraq, in a continuation of the “Winter Soldier” hearings held in Silver Spring, Maryland in March. 数十名退伍军人从美国对伊拉克的占领融合在这西海岸城市本周末分享故事的暴行每天都在伊拉克，继续“冬季士兵”听证会举行的银春，马里兰州3月。
By 通过 Dahr Jamail Dahr山jamail | At the Seattle Town Hall, some 800 people gathered to hear the testimonies of veterans from Iraq. |在西雅图大会堂举行，约800人聚集听到的证词，退伍军人从伊拉克撤军。 The event was sponsored by the Northwest Regional Iraq Veterans Against the War (IVAW), and endorsed by dozens of local and regional anti-war groups like Veterans for Peace and Students for a Democratic Society.该活动是由西北地区伊拉克退伍军人反对战争（ ivaw ） ，并得到数十名当地和区域的反战团体，例如退伍军人争取和平与学生为一个民主的社会。
“I watched Iraqi Police bring in someone to interrogate,” Seth Manzel, a vehicle commander and machine gunner in the US Army, told the audience. “我看了伊拉克警察带来在有人审问， ”塞思在曼泽尔，车辆指挥官和机枪手在美国的军队，告诉听众。 “There were four men on the prisoner…one was pummeling his kidneys with his fists, another was inserting a bottle up his rectum. “有四名男子对囚犯…一个是pummeling他的肾脏与他的拳头，另一个是插入了一瓶了他的直肠。 It looked like a frat house gang-rape.”它看起来相当frat内务轮奸“ 。
Manzel joined the army after 9/11 for economic reasons — he’d just been laid off, and his wife had just had a baby.在曼泽尔参军入伍，后9 / 11出于经济原因-他只希望被下岗职工，和他的妻子刚刚有一个婴儿。 Manzel told another story of military medics he was with in Tal Afar who refused to treat an elderly man in their detention centre.曼策尔说，另一个故事军事医务人员，他与在塔尔阿法谁拒绝治疗一名老翁在他们的拘留中心。 Manzel described the old man as being jaundiced and lying on the ground, writhing in pain.在曼泽尔形容岁男子被阻塞性黄疸，并躺在地上， writhing在疼痛。
“The medics said the old man was just being lazy and they were not authorised to treat detainees,” Manzel said. “医生说，岁男子只是懒惰和他们没有授权对待被拘留者， ”曼策尔说。
Jan Critchfield worked as an army journalist while attached to the 1st Cavalry in Baghdad during 2004. 1月critchfield工作作为军队新闻工作者的同时，重视第一骑兵在巴格达2004年期间。 “I was with a unit that shot at a man and wife near a checkpoint,” Critchfield said, “She had been shot through her shinbone, and that was the first story I covered in Iraq.” “我是一个单位的枪击，一名男子和妻子附近的一个检查站， ” critchfield说： “她被子弹击中，通过她的胫骨，这是第一次的故事i包括在伊拉克” 。
Critchfield told the audience that his unspoken job in Iraq was to “counter the liberal media bias” about the occupation. critchfield告诉听众，他的潜在伊拉克的工作是要“反自由媒体的偏见”关于占领。
“Our target audience was in the US, and the emphasis was reporting on humanitarian aid missions the military conducted,” Critchfield said. “我们的目标受众是在美国，重点是报告对人道主义援助任务，军方曾进行过” ， critchfield说。 “I don’t know how many stories I reported on chicken drops (distributing frozen chickens in a community). “我不知道有多少故事，我报告对鸡下降（分发冷冻鸡肉在一个社会） 。 I don’t know what else you can call that, other than propaganda.我不知道还有什么可以调用，除了宣传。 I would find the highest ranking person I could get, and quote them verbatim without fact checking anything they said.”我会觉得排名最高的人，我可以得到，并引述他们的逐字检查，其实没有什么，他们说“ 。
Other veterans told of lax rules of engagement that led to the slaughter of innocent civilians in Iraq.其他的退伍军人说，松弛的交战规则，导致屠杀无辜平民在伊拉克。
“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. “我们被告知，我们很乐意被部署到伊拉克和我们需要作好准备，没有多大的孩子和妇女的射击， ”我们塞尔吉奥kochergin ，前水谁服务两个部署在伊拉克，告诉听众。 “It was an attempt to portray Iraqis as animals. “这是一个试图描绘的伊拉克人的动物。 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.”我们假定这样做的人道主义工作，但所有我们所做的只是骚扰人，驱动器一样，疯狂的在街上，假装这是我们的城市及我们可以做什么，我们想做的事“ 。
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.作为对其他退伍军人事务委员会点头表示同意， kochergin续说： “我们不断告诉大家有要杀死你，大家都希望得到您。 In the military, we had racism within every rank and it was ridiculous.在军事上，我们曾种族主义在每个职级的，这是荒谬的。 It seemed like a joke, but that joke turned into destroying peoples’ lives in Iraq.”它好像是一个笑话，但笑话，变成了破坏人民的生活在伊拉克“ 。
“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. “我当时在husaiba与一名狙击手排长的权利，对叙利亚边境的，我们会走出去，基本上对城市和搜索的人射击， ” kochergin说。 “The rules of engagement (ROE) got more lenient the longer we were there. “交战规则（汇率）获得较宽松的时间越长，我们有。 So if anyone had a bag and a shovel, we were to shoot them.因此，如果任何人有一个袋子和一把铁铲，我们要拍他们。 We were allowed to take our shots at anything that looked suspicious.我们允许我们的枪，任何可疑的期待。 And at that point in time, everything looked suspicious.”并在这一点上，在时间，一切都期待可疑“ 。
Kochergin added, “Later on, we had no ROE at all. kochergin补充说： “后来，我们没有在所有的交战规则。 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.”如果您看到的东西看起来不正确，带他们去“他总结说， ”够了，它的时间失控，有“ 。
Doug Connor was a first lieutenant in the army and worked as a surgical nurse in Iraq.道格康纳的第一个中将，在军队和工作，作为一个外科护士在伊拉克。 While there he worked as part of a combat support unit, and said most of the patients he treated were Iraqi civilians.而他在那里工作的一个组成部分，战斗支援单位，并说，多数病人治疗，他被伊拉克平民。
“There were so many people that needed treatment we couldn’t take all of them,” he said. “有这么多的人需要治疗，我们无法采取一切的他们， ”他说。 “When a bombing happened and 45 patients were brought to us, it was always Americans treated first, then Kurds, then the Arabs.” “当一个轰炸发生45例带给我们的，它始终是美国人对待第一，然后库尔德人，那么阿拉伯人” 。
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.”康纳说，悄悄地， “到了点，我们开始呼吁伊拉克病人的范围球' ，因为，就像练习场（在高尔夫） ，你不关心他们失去” 。
Channan Suarez Diaz was a navy hospital corpsman who returned from Iraq with a purple heart, among other medals. channan苏亚雷斯迪亚兹是一个海军医院corpsman谁从伊拉克返国与紫心勋章，其中包括其他金牌。 He served in Ramadi from September 2004 to February 2005 with a weapons company.他在拉马迪从2004年9月至2005年2月与武器的公司。 He is now the Seattle Chapter president of IVAW.他现在是西雅图章主席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. “我们的指挥人员，希望我们要经过的路线，另一排，并没有完全被消灭在一次伏击中， ”迪亚兹解释。 “We refused. “我们拒绝。 They canceled that mission and we didn’t go.他们取消了这一使命，我们没有去。 I don’t think these are isolated incidents.我不认为这些都是孤立的事件。 I think this is happening every day in Iraq.我认为这是每天发生在伊拉克。 The military doesn’t want you to know about this, because it’s kind of like lighting a fire in a prairie.”军方不希望你知道，因为它的种一样，照明火警在一个草原“ 。
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.首次冬季士兵的事件是在1971年举办的由越战退伍军人对战争的反应越来越多的侵犯人权行为发生在越南。
From Mar. 13-16, 2008, IVAW held a national conference titled “Winter Solider: Iraq and Afghanistan” outside Washington, DC.从3月13日至16日， 2008年， ivaw召开了全国会议名为“冬季solider ：伊拉克和阿富汗的”外，华盛顿特区。 The four-day event brought together veterans from across the country to testify about their experiences in Iraq and Afghanistan.四天的展会聚集了来自全国各地的退伍军人该国作证，他们的经验，在伊拉克和阿富汗。
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