Hey, I just posted an incredible piece by Nir Rosen. He's an American reporter who has lived for the last three years in Iraq and who can pass as Middle Eastern, and he describes what it's like to live under the boot of a culturally callous -- and sometimes criminal -- occupying force in Iraq.
"The occupation has been one vast extended crime against the Iraqi people, and most of it has occurred unnoticed by the American people and the media."
http://www.truthdig.com/...
BONUS: "Ugly Americans in Iraq"
In a major companion piece to the above article, Rosen also put together an oral history of a U.S Army Special Forces soldier who describes how he and his unit created more insurgents than they killed in Iraq.
"We probably created two times more insurgents than we caught..."
http://www.truthdig.com/...