1.0 link 55953 <![CDATA[Did Someone Say Gestapo?]]> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jan-herman/did-someone-say-gestapo_b_55953.html Can't let the week go by without noting "The Other War: Iraq Vets Bear Witness" in The Nation, a devastating piece of eye-witness testimony described by its authors as an investigation into "alleged military misconduct" of U.S. troops in Iraq.

The three words alleged military misconduct are a legalistic euphemism for the banalized horrors of the war -- "indiscriminate killings" of innocent civilians, "checkpoint shootings," night raids by stormtroopers who act like the Gestapo -- all of which are detailed in firsthand accounts by veterans willing...

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