Former soldier prompts investigations with Iraq stories, pictures

[Kadie]

Posted on Sat, Jun. 11, 2005


Former soldier prompts investigations with Iraq stories, pictures

SETH HETTENA

Associated Press


SAN DIEGO - Since he left the Army in January as a conscientious objector, Aidan Delgado has traveled the country giving audiences a disturbing account of routine brutality he claims he saw during his year in Iraq.

His grisly roadshow has triggered two military investigations.

Delgado said he saw an Army master sergeant lash Iraqi children with a Humvee antenna. He recalled seeing a Marine send another child flying with a boot to the chest, and men in his unit pelt Iraqi civilians in Nasiriyah with glass soda bottles thrown from a military vehicle.

Wearing a black T-shirt with the word "Peace" in English, Hebrew and Arabic, the former Army specialist punctuated a recent talk to about 50 people with slides of gruesome war images that few civilians see.

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"If democracy comes out of this invasion, then there will be some good to it," Delgado said. "But I just want people to know: Along that road there is going to be an enormous amount of brutality and bloodshed."



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http://www.montereyherald.com/mld/montereyherald/news/11873083.htm

[WhoWantsToBeOccupied]

1. If our media did its job, we wouldn't need brave soldiers to show us truth

I guess it's cheaper and easier to cover the Jackson trial or host a "reality" show than cover a war on the other side of the planet.

Bread and circuses, anyone?

[achtung_circus]

4. No bread, just circuses

hence my user name.

[Xipe Totec]

2. Real Courage

"I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. It's when you know you're licked before you begin but you begin anyway and you see it through no matter what."

Harper Lee (1926 - ), To Kill a Mockingbird, 1960

[truth2power]

3. Here's a video of one of his appearances.

I watched it a few nights ago. A must see!

http://www.truthout.org/multimedia.htm (scroll down)

[goodboy]

5. he's an amazing man. What courage it took for him to stay true to his

beliefs, in the face of such horror.

I really appreciate you showing this to me.


goodboy.

[Disturbed]

6. The price of illegal Invasion and Occupation.

It is being paid and some people are reaping $Millions from the carnage.