two veterans of the Iraq war

http://www.abcnews.go.com/GMA/story?id#18457&page=1
Joe Darby, the "whistle blower" at Abu Ghraib, speaks out. He acted bravely
in sending those photos to the Army Criminal Investigation Division. He was
still at Abu Ghraib when Donald Rumsfeld announced his name on television.
Surely Rumsfeld must have known that he was still at Abu Ghraib.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docidb32757351172260101&q=war
And here is Jessie MacBeth, another veteran of the Iraq war. Jessie
estimates he killed 200 people when he was there, many of them women and
children, many of them with a bullet to the head at close range. Jessie is
ashamed of himself and ashamed of his country and is speaking out against
what the USA is doing in Iraq.

Jessie MacBeth is probably in more danger for speaking out about what he did
than he is for what he did in Iraq. He was following orders (though that
didn't help Eichmann). And, to judge from the fact that Joe Darby is in
protective custody to this day, Joe Darby is in more danger for what he did
than MacBeth is for what he did.

Yet for all the unspeakable evil that Jessie MacBeth perpetrated in
following orders in Iraq and Charles Graner did at Abu Ghraib, it is as
nothing compared with what Bush and Rumsfeld and others did in leading the
USA to war against Iraq on the basis of false intelligence. And a litany of
subsequent perversions/subversions of justice that led to situations where
Jessie MacBeth could simply be following orders and Charles Graner could
feel he was doing his job acceptably.

But the USA has a hero in Joe Darby. A real one. Because he had the guts to
do the right thing.

I see it is 111 degrees fahrenheit in Baghdad today.

ja
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