[lbo-talk] The Price of Empire

Dennis Redmond dredmond at efn.org
Tue Mar 1 11:54:44 PST 2005


In addition to 12,498 official US casualties, tens of thousands of soldiers are returning from Iraq physically intact but psychologically shattered:

"Jesus Bocanegra was an Army infantry scout for units that pursued Saddam Hussein in his hometown of Tikrit...

Bocanegra recalls calling in Apache helicopter strikes on a house by the Tigris River where he had seen crates of enemy ammunition carried in. When the gunfire ended, there was silence. But then children's cries and screams drifted from the destroyed home, he says. "I didn't know there were kids there," he says. "Those screams are the most horrible thing you can hear."

(William Welch, USAToday, "Trauma of Iraq war haunting thousands returning home", posted at http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/index.php?id=1600)

-- DRR



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