WINTER SOLDIER - IRAQ VERSION

The Iraq Veterans Against the War (IVAW) have been and are holding hearings about Iraq and some of the testimony is reminiscent of Vietnam. Here's an example from Stars and Stripes:

Jason Hurd, an Army medic who served in Iraq in 2005, said his unit was routinely instructed to fire on Iraqi cars, buses and civilians to keep them away from explosive ordnance disposal teams, even if they posed no real threat to the U.S. bomb squads.

“My unit began firing randomly at civilians who were outside our 50-meter bubble,” he said. “They’d come back bragging about how they fired into the grills of cars and watched radiator fluid explode all over the place. And that kind of behavior was encouraged.”