Aaron Glantz, author of "How America Lost Iraq" is an award-winning journalist who covered Iraq for three years and now reports on the lives of the soldiers when they return from duty.
Aaron wrote an entry on the Huffington Post that contains the following excerpt about some children in Iraq who posed for a photo with a U.S. soldier:
Take Specialist Patrick Resta. The South Carolina served a year in Baqouba, near the Iranian border. Two days before he left Iraq he asked one of his buddies to a take a photo of him with a group of Iraqi children.
"I wasn't looking at what the children were doing along side of me and he hands the camera back to me and I see that I'm surrounded by children who are between eight- and 10-years-old. One of them is holding up a Hitler salute and on the other side of me one of the children is holding up a local newspaper with the Abu Ghraib torture photos on the front cover," Resta told me.
"So that was the impression that I left Iraq with -- that we had radicalized a whole generation of Iraqis to hate this country and hate Americans."
Mr. Glantz has compiled many first-hand stories at his Web site War Comes Home. It's a great repository for information on the American military and the Iraq war.
When President Bush went to visit the troops last week, (a pre-sales event for Congress, to whom he is going soon to ask for another $50 billion dollars) he talked again about how we are "winning the war." The soldiers on the ground know better. You can't win a war when there are no "winnable" objectives. There is no end game. No strategy. Bush, stay in your bubble. It's better for the rest of us.
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