THINGS IN IRAQ WENT SOUTH EARLY ON

Evan Wright wrote about a few of the terrible events that befell Iraqi civilians during the invasion of Iraq and commenter The Sphinx at LGF Watch has provided a link to an article in Maclean's by a former U.S. soldier that shows that we were in fact terrorizing the civilians VERY early on during the war:

Why I fled George Bush's war
What happened to make a patriotic,
gung-ho soldier desert the U.S. army,
and turn against the war in Iraq.
EXCLUSIVE EXCERPT
JOSHUA KEY Feb 7, 2007 12:40 pm EST

(excerpt)

Busting into and ransacking homes remained one of my most common duties in Iraq. Before my time was up, I took part in about 200 raids. We never found weapons or indications of terrorism. I never found a thing that seemed to justify the terror we inflicted every time we blasted through the door of a civilian home, broke everything in sight, punched and zipcuffed the men, and sent them away.