Comments on: Half a Decade of War: Five Years After Iraq Invasion, Soldiers Testify at Winter Soldier Hearings http://harmonicminor.com/2008/03/20/half-a-decade-of-war-five-years-after-iraq-invasion-soldiers-testify-at-winter-soldier-hearings-2/ political commentary, cultural critique & philosophical meandering Fri, 05 Sep 2008 22:40:53 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.3 By: Kris Petersen http://harmonicminor.com/2008/03/20/half-a-decade-of-war-five-years-after-iraq-invasion-soldiers-testify-at-winter-soldier-hearings-2/#comment-1481 Kris Petersen Sat, 29 Mar 2008 17:32:21 +0000 http://harmonicminor.com/2008/03/20/half-a-decade-of-war-five-years-after-iraq-invasion-soldiers-testify-at-winter-soldier-hearings-2/#comment-1481 Thanks for the comment Jaleesa... These testimonies were certainly very emotional and hard to read. Above all, I think it is important for people to realize the human costs of what has become an abstraction to many - war. The lack of coverage in the U.S. media of the atrocities being committed in Iraq is disturbing - and it has only lessened year by year. This is a real problem. A war that has cost over a million civilian deaths (by some estimates) is not something to be taken lightly... Thanks for the comment Jaleesa… These testimonies were certainly very emotional and hard to read. Above all, I think it is important for people to realize the human costs of what has become an abstraction to many - war. The lack of coverage in the U.S. media of the atrocities being committed in Iraq is disturbing - and it has only lessened year by year. This is a real problem. A war that has cost over a million civilian deaths (by some estimates) is not something to be taken lightly…

]]> By: Jaleesa http://harmonicminor.com/2008/03/20/half-a-decade-of-war-five-years-after-iraq-invasion-soldiers-testify-at-winter-soldier-hearings-2/#comment-1476 Jaleesa Fri, 28 Mar 2008 22:07:56 +0000 http://harmonicminor.com/2008/03/20/half-a-decade-of-war-five-years-after-iraq-invasion-soldiers-testify-at-winter-soldier-hearings-2/#comment-1476 Thank you for re-posting this. I don't count myself very political because it's my policy not to form opinions on things I know nothing about, but reading this makes me see for myself that it's not about the politics...it's about humanity, it's about people as individuals...I mean, I haven't read past the first story yet. Though I haven't gone through anything of this magnitude in my life, I have been the victim of a genital mutilation when I was younger, and the emotion of just the first testimony was too much to take. I cannot imagine the evil that pushes leaders to send people to fight their wars knowing what's going to happen to their brains and their own wellbeing when they come home, if they come home at all. this type of evil has no words. It's different reading the stories from people who are actually serving time there than the broad pictures the media and everyone else tries to paint for us. I do plan to come back and finish this post as well as the others you posted. Thanks again for the re-post. Thank you for re-posting this. I don’t count myself very political because it’s my policy not to form opinions on things I know nothing about, but reading this makes me see for myself that it’s not about the politics…it’s about humanity, it’s about people as individuals…I mean, I haven’t read past the first story yet. Though I haven’t gone through anything of this magnitude in my life, I have been the victim of a genital mutilation when I was younger, and the emotion of just the first testimony was too much to take. I cannot imagine the evil that pushes leaders to send people to fight their wars knowing what’s going to happen to their brains and their own wellbeing when they come home, if they come home at all. this type of evil has no words. It’s different reading the stories from people who are actually serving time there than the broad pictures the media and everyone else tries to paint for us.

I do plan to come back and finish this post as well as the others you posted. Thanks again for the re-post.

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