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Hart Viges in Iraq [Photo: IVAW]<\/p>\n
We were driving down Baghdad one day and ah … we found a dead body on the side of the road. So we all pulled over to … to secure it and wait for MP’s or whatever authorities would come and take care of this … this dead man here who was clearly murdered. And my friends jumped off and started taking pictures with him, you know, with big ol’ smiles on their faces … and they said, ‘Hey, Viges, you want a picture with this guy?’ And I said no. But no not in the context of that’s really messed up because it’s just wrong … on a ethical basis, but I said no because it wasn’t my kill. You shouldn’t take trophies for things you didn’t kill. I mean that’s … that’s where my mindset is…WAS back then. Cuz I wasn’t even upset that this man was really dead. They shouldn’t have been taking credit for something they didn’t do.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
-Hart Viges; 82 Airborne Division 1st 325 HHC Battalion Morters1<\/sup> Testimony at Winter Soldier<\/a>, Silver Springs Maryland March 14, 2008<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
The Monday March 17, 2008 edition of Democracy Now!<\/a> has a large segment covering Winter Solder testimony as well as a retrospective of the My Lai massacre including an interview with Seymour Hersch. Most of the Tuesday March 18, 2008 edition is devoted to Winter Soldier including Hart Viges’ testimony<\/a>.<\/p>\n
Tomorrow marks the 5th Anniversary of the invasion of Iraq<\/a>.<\/h3>\n
1<\/sup>“I joined the army right after September eleventh and asked for airborne … asked for infantry and ended up with 82nd Airborne Division 1st 325 HHC Battalion Morters … ‘hunters in the sky’ … ‘death from above'”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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