Soldier Reports from Iraq

Interesting:
Winter Soldiers Sound Off | The Progressive Magazine since 1909

?An Iraqi was once selling soda out of a motorcycle to soldiers in a waiting convoy,? says Moon. ?In the side-car was his seven-to-eight-year-old child. When the man refused to go away, the MP on patrol put him to the ground with a gun to his head and started stripping his vehicle and searching it. They then took the child, picked it up into the air, and threw it full force onto the ground. I didn?t see the child get up.?

Moon says soldiers devised cruel tricks to play on Iraqi kids. ?Whenever we arrived in an area, we did so along with support vehicles with the radios, tractor trailers, bulldozers, and graters,? he says. ?So we would park those in a circle with yellow police tape around. Iraqis had to stand outside that tape as we stood inside the tape, armed and ready. That was our little base of operations. Soldiers would place a $20 bill in the sand with a little bit showing and walk over to the other side of the vehicles and wait for a kid to charge under the tape to try to get the bill, which was equal to an average monthly salary there. If some kid was stupid enough to take the bait they would chase him, trying to hit him with the end of their bayonet or the butt of their rifle.?

Interesting:
Winter Soldiers Sound Off | The Progressive Magazine since 1909

?An Iraqi was once selling soda out of a motorcycle to soldiers in a waiting convoy,? says Moon. ?In the side-car was his seven-to-eight-year-old child. When the man refused to go away, the MP on patrol put him to the ground with a gun to his head and started stripping his vehicle and searching it. They then took the child, picked it up into the air, and threw it full force onto the ground. I didn?t see the child get up.?

Moon says soldiers devised cruel tricks to play on Iraqi kids. ?Whenever we arrived in an area, we did so along with support vehicles with the radios, tractor trailers, bulldozers, and graters,? he says. ?So we would park those in a circle with yellow police tape around. Iraqis had to stand outside that tape as we stood inside the tape, armed and ready. That was our little base of operations. Soldiers would place a $20 bill in the sand with a little bit showing and walk over to the other side of the vehicles and wait for a kid to charge under the tape to try to get the bill, which was equal to an average monthly salary there. If some kid was stupid enough to take the bait they would chase him, trying to hit him with the end of their bayonet or the butt of their rifle.?

I have seriously hard time believing any of that.

Yeah that story in the original post seems to be pretty far out there... I doubt a group of guys would stand ideally by and watch this happen and not report it.

I just finished a book entitled House to House that was written by David Bellavia who took part in the 2004 fighting in Fallujah. I read it in two days. I would imagine that this book captures what our soldiers go through over there pretty damn well.

Well a very large portion of the troops excluding the handful of ***heads.

I don't doubt that it happens or has happened, worse things have happened in Iraq from american soldiers. But I seriously doubt such cases are the Norm.