Winter Soldier

All this week Democracy Now has been playing clips of the four day Winter Soldier gathering taking place at the National Labor College in Silver Spring, Maryland. The event is organized and led by Iraq Veterans Against the War and involves soldiers who are giving eyewitness accounts of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. Many of the accounts are tough to listen to but, they are the best insights I have heard yet, to the human cost of the war and occupation.

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