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..have a new breed of potential killers in our midst...not THERE, but here!
A DEAD IRAQI IS JUST ANOTHER DEAD IRAQI’
By Neil Mackay
HOW AMERICAN TROOPS VIEW THE WAR
Specialist Jeff Englehart, A 26-year-old American soldier from Grand Junction in Colorado, could not be more blunt. "I guess," he said, "while I was there, the general attitude was: a dead Iraqi is just another dead Iraqi."
His brutally honest assessment of how GIs view Iraqi civilians is a standard attitude in the US army held by many of Englehart's comrades.
Englehart was just one of 50 US veterans of the Iraq conflict interviewed by The Nation magazine, an American political weekly. It is a unique study which focuses on military attitudes towards the most vulnerable group of people caught up in the campaign: ordinary men, women and children.
Englehart explained matter-of-factly why American soldiers really don't care if civilians live or die: " <<>>>
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