Maverick colonel blames US army's 'sycophantic' culture and heavy-handedness for failures in Iraq
"To conduct house-to-house searches, to conduct heavy-handed raids, to run checkpoints that were extremely humiliating, to arrest people in front of their families, put bags over their heads, handcuff them and treat them with extreme disregard for human dignity, was a serious mistake - and it was not necessary."...
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Starmail - 12. Jun, 19:43