Tuesday, June 3rd, 2008 週二， 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. 數十名退伍軍人從美國對伊拉克的佔領融合在這西海岸城市本週末分享故事的暴行每天都在伊拉克，繼續“冬季士兵”聽證會舉行的銀春，馬里蘭州3月。
By 通過 Dahr Jamail Dahr山jamail | At the Seattle Town Hall, some 800 people gathered to hear the testimonies of veterans from Iraq. |在西雅圖大會堂舉行，約800人聚集聽到的證詞，退伍軍人從伊拉克撤軍。 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.該活動是由西北地區伊拉克退伍軍人反對戰爭（ ivaw ） ，並得到數十名當地和區域的反戰團體，例如退伍軍人爭取和平與學生為一個民主的社會。
“I watched Iraqi Police bring in someone to interrogate,” Seth Manzel, a vehicle commander and machine gunner in the US Army, told the audience. “我看了伊拉克警察帶來在有人審問， ”塞思在曼澤爾，車輛指揮官和機槍手在美國的軍隊，告訴聽眾。 “There were four men on the prisoner…one was pummeling his kidneys with his fists, another was inserting a bottle up his rectum. “有四名男子對囚犯…一個是pummeling他的腎臟與他的拳頭，另一個是插入了一瓶了他的直腸。 It looked like a frat house gang-rape.”它看起來相當frat內務輪姦“ 。
Manzel joined the army after 9/11 for economic reasons — he’d just been laid off, and his wife had just had a baby.在曼澤爾參軍入伍，後9 / 11出於經濟原因-他只希望被下崗職工，和他的妻子剛剛有一個嬰兒。 Manzel told another story of military medics he was with in Tal Afar who refused to treat an elderly man in their detention centre.曼策爾說，另一個故事軍事醫務人員，他與在塔爾阿法誰拒絕治療一名老翁在他們的拘留中心。 Manzel described the old man as being jaundiced and lying on the ground, writhing in pain.在曼澤爾形容歲男子被阻塞性黃疸，並躺在地上， writhing在疼痛。
“The medics said the old man was just being lazy and they were not authorised to treat detainees,” Manzel said. “醫生說，歲男子只是懶惰和他們沒有授權對待被拘留者， ”曼策爾說。
Jan Critchfield worked as an army journalist while attached to the 1st Cavalry in Baghdad during 2004. 1月critchfield工作作為軍隊新聞工作者的同時，重視第一騎兵在巴格達2004年期間。 “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.” “我是一個單位的槍擊，一名男子和妻子附近的一個檢查站， ” critchfield說： “她被子彈擊中，通過她的脛骨，這是第一次的故事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告訴聽眾，他的潛在伊拉克的工作是要“反自由媒體的偏見”關於佔領。
“Our target audience was in the US, and the emphasis was reporting on humanitarian aid missions the military conducted,” Critchfield said. “我們的目標受眾是在美國，重點是報告對人道主義援助任務，軍方曾進行過” ， critchfield說。 “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，我報告對雞下降（分發冷凍雞肉在一個社會） 。 I don’t know what else you can call that, other than propaganda.我不知道還有什麼可以調用，除了宣傳。 I would find the highest ranking person I could get, and quote them verbatim without fact checking anything they said.”我會覺得排名最高的人，我可以得到，並引述他們的逐字檢查，其實沒有什麼，他們說“ 。
Other veterans told of lax rules of engagement that led to the slaughter of innocent civilians in Iraq.其他的退伍軍人說，鬆弛的交戰規則，導致屠殺無辜平民在伊拉克。
“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. “我們被告知，我們很樂意被部署到伊拉克和我們需要作好準備，沒有多大的孩子和婦女的射擊， ”我們塞爾吉奧kochergin ，前水誰服務兩個部署在伊拉克，告訴聽眾。 “It was an attempt to portray Iraqis as animals. “這是一個試圖描繪的伊拉克人的動物。 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.”我們假定這樣做的人道主義工作，但所有我們所做的只是騷擾人，驅動器一樣，瘋狂的在街上，假裝這是我們的城市及我們可以做什麼，我們想做的事“ 。
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.作為對其他退伍軍人事務委員會點頭表示同意， kochergin續說： “我們不斷告訴大家有要殺死你，大家都希望得到您。 In the military, we had racism within every rank and it was ridiculous.在軍事上，我們曾種族主義在每個職級的，這是荒謬的。 It seemed like a joke, but that joke turned into destroying peoples’ lives in Iraq.”它好像是一個笑話，但笑話，變成了破壞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. “我當時在husaiba與一名狙擊手排長的權利，對敘利亞邊境的，我們會走出去，基本上對城市和搜索的人射擊， ” kochergin說。 “The rules of engagement (ROE) got more lenient the longer we were there. “交戰規則（匯率）獲得較寬鬆的時間越長，我們有。 So if anyone had a bag and a shovel, we were to shoot them.因此，如果任何人有一個袋子和一把鐵鏟，我們要拍他們。 We were allowed to take our shots at anything that looked suspicious.我們允許我們的槍，任何可疑的期待。 And at that point in time, everything looked suspicious.”並在這一點上，在時間，一切都期待可疑“ 。
Kochergin added, “Later on, we had no ROE at all. kochergin補充說： “後來，我們沒有在所有的交戰規則。 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.”如果您看到的東西看起來不正確，帶他們去“他總結說， ”夠了，它的時間失控，有“ 。
Doug Connor was a first lieutenant in the army and worked as a surgical nurse in Iraq.道格康納的第一個中將，在軍隊和工作，作為一個外科護士在伊拉克。 While there he worked as part of a combat support unit, and said most of the patients he treated were Iraqi civilians.而他在那裡工作的一個組成部分，戰鬥支援單位，並說，多數病人治療，他被伊拉克平民。
“There were so many people that needed treatment we couldn’t take all of them,” he said. “有這麼多的人需要治療，我們無法採取一切的他們， ”他說。 “When a bombing happened and 45 patients were brought to us, it was always Americans treated first, then Kurds, then the Arabs.” “當一個轟炸發生45例帶給我們的，它始終是美國人對待第一，然後庫爾德人，那麼阿拉伯人” 。
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.”康納說，悄悄地， “到了點，我們開始呼籲伊拉克病人的範圍球' ，因為，就像練習場（在高爾夫） ，你不關心他們失去” 。
Channan Suarez Diaz was a navy hospital corpsman who returned from Iraq with a purple heart, among other medals. channan蘇亞雷斯迪亞茲是一個海軍醫院corpsman誰從伊拉克返國與紫心勳章，其中包括其他金牌。 He served in Ramadi from September 2004 to February 2005 with a weapons company.他在拉馬迪從2004年9月至2005年2月與武器的公司。 He is now the Seattle Chapter president of IVAW.他現在是西雅圖章主席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. “我們的指揮人員，希望我們要經過的路線，另一排，並沒有完全被消滅在一次伏擊中， ”迪亞茲解釋。 “We refused. “我們拒絕。 They canceled that mission and we didn’t go.他們取消了這一使命，我們沒有去。 I don’t think these are isolated incidents.我不認為這些都是孤立的事件。 I think this is happening every day in Iraq.我認為這是每天發生在伊拉克。 The military doesn’t want you to know about this, because it’s kind of like lighting a fire in a prairie.”軍方不希望你知道，因為它的種一樣，照明火警在一個草原“ 。
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年舉辦的由越戰退伍軍人對戰爭的反應越來越多的侵犯人權行為發生在越南。
From Mar. 13-16, 2008, IVAW held a national conference titled “Winter Solider: Iraq and Afghanistan” outside Washington, DC.從3月13日至16日， 2008年， ivaw召開了全國會議名為“冬季solider ：伊拉克和阿富汗的”外，華盛頓特區。 The four-day event brought together veterans from across the country to testify about their experiences in Iraq and Afghanistan.四天的展會聚集了來自全國各地的退伍軍人該國作證，他們的經驗，在伊拉克和阿富汗。
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