New Book Lets Winter Soldiers Be Heard

"War is just a racket...I believe in adequate defense at the coastline and nothing else."
- General Smedley Butler

[excerpt] ... Aside from the Iraqi people, nobody knows what the U.S. military is doing in Iraq better than the soldiers themselves. A new book gives readers vivid and detailed accounts of the devastation the U.S. occupation has brought to Iraq, in the soldiers' own words. Winter Soldier Iraq and Afghanistan: Eyewitness Accounts of the Occupation, published by Haymarket Books Tuesday, is a gut-wrenching, historic chronicle of what the U.S. military has done to Iraq, and its own soldiers. ... Read this book review by Dahr Jamail