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=== News Update ===
The Deserter's Tale : American soldiers were behaving like terrorists
in the Iraq war
US Soldier Joshua Key has told Tony Jones about his new book, which
concludes that American soldiers were behaving like terrorists in the
Iraq war, as a result of their training.
TONY JONES: We'll talk about some of the details in a moment, but let
me take you back to your account of basic training. Because it's here
you argue your minds were poisoned. Could you describe to us just how
you were taught, what people were saying to you about Iraqis and Muslims?
JOSHUA KEY: You know of course they were never called Iraqis or
Muslims, they were always used in derogatory terms as hajis, habibs
and so on. I would say it was definitely a form of dehumanising. I
mean, if you see something - that effect all the time - they were
never referred to as civilians or Iraqis or Muslims.
TONY JONES: You say of the training that you were told that all
Muslims were terrorists, that all Muslims were responsible for
September 11. Were people actually saying that to you specifically?
JOSHUA KEY: Yes, and then I got it to the term that instead of being,
what would you say, not guilty until proven guilty, I would say to us
it's "they're guilty till they're proven innocent", to us all Muslims
were terrorists. That's the way we were taught and it's the way we
conducted our business.
TONY JONES: You say it's the way you conducted business. Did you
actually see soldiers in Iraq behaving as if they actually believed this?
JOSHUA KEY: Very much so, very much so. Even in our actions from
raiding homes to traffic control points to every day manoeuvres in
Iraq. It was very systematic. It was never referred, as civilians are
people. It was always derogatory terms, always something to
dehumanise them, to put them beneath us.
TONY JONES: Did you see or feel this in your own behaviour?
JOSHUA KEY: Of course in my own behaviour at first, I've seen it and
I did it. Of course I changed after the months went but, no, at first
I was one of them. Yes.
TONY JONES: Did you abuse Iraqi civilians yourself?
JOSHUA KEY: Yes, I did, yes.
TONY JONES: Now of the numerous raids and other incidents you
participated in you've written, "It struck me that the American
soldiers themselves were the terrorists." Now people back home, your
own family, are going to be horrified to hear you say that.
JOSHUA KEY: I'm sure they will be, but the way I look at it, that was
the truth. We had no justification after all them homes that I
raided, there was no justification. I felt that we were more
antagonising, causing in my picture to myself, we had become the
terrorists. I wasn't getting terrorised. I was more doing the terrorising.
Video and transcript
<http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article17271.htm>http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article17271.htm
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