Veterans Against the War — ZNet

Patrick Resta, the New England organizer for Iraq Veterans Against the War (IVAW):

Once I got there, what I saw was a lot worse than what I could have ever imagined. All of the things we had been told that we were going there to do were shown unequivocally to be lies. We were told we weren't supposed to treat Iraqi civilians unless they were about to die and only if that injury was a result of an attack directed at us or inflicted by us. Our supervisor told my platoon that "the Geneva Conventions don't exist in Iraq and that's in writing if any of you want to see it."

The above is an excerpt from an interview published by ZNet. The article first appeared on www.mrzine.org and www.lefthook.org.