"Restoring Iraq to military self-sufficiency will require at least a decade," he says. "For that reason alone, Iraq will remain an American protectorate well into the next decade."

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article8930.htm

"If I have to go to prison because I don't want to kill anybody, so be it," said Sergeant Benderman.

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/index.cfm?c_id=2&ObjectID=10126890


From Information Clearing House

The United States is having trouble recruiting new soldiers for the war effort in Iraq. So the army is recycling its old fighters. The blog "War is Real" is written by just such a soldier. He describes his fears of returning to the desert -- and his battle with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder.

http://service.spiegel.de/cache/international/0,1518,357186,00.html


From Information Clearing House

THERE are daily reports of continuing ferocious clashes between Coalition forces and native insurgents. The brave men and women who have accepted the task of helping to restore order to their own land are repeatedly picked off, brutally and mercilessly, by the rebels among their countrymen. The American forces that "liberated" the nation are now bitterly accused of brutalising its inhabitants.

http://www.veteransforcommonsense.org/?Page=Article&ID=3310

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/052305Z.shtml


Informant: Friends

http://newstandardnews.net/content/?items=1816&printmode=true


Informant: NHNE

Prospect of careers, citizenship not worth the danger, he warns.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2005/05/22/MNGQ2CSURU1.DTL


From Information Clearing House

Inside secret Saddam prison

A former Australian interrogator at Camp Cropper has revealed to The Observer for the first time the regime inside the prison, including suggestions that some of those arriving at the facility had been badly beaten.

http://observer.guardian.co.uk/focus/story/0,6903,1489575,00.html


From Information Clearing House

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"Everybody heard him cry out and thought it was funny"

"He screamed out, 'Allah! Allah! Allah!' and my first reaction was that he was crying out to his god," Specialist Jones said to investigators. "Everybody heard him cry out and thought it was funny." It became a kind of running joke, and people kept showing up to give this detainee a common peroneal strike just to hear him scream out 'Allah,' " he said. "It went on over a 24-hour period, and I would think that it was over 100 strikes."

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article8918.htm

An Open Letter To Every American Serviceman
http://www.uruknet.info/?p=m11925&l=i&size=1&hd=0


Informant: Charles Bremer