"Each of the Iraqi children killed by the United States was our child.
Each of the prisoners tortured in Abu Ghraib was our comrade. Each of
their screams was ours. When they were humiliated, we were humiliated.
The U.S. soldiers fighting in Iraq - mostly volunteers in a poverty
draft from small towns and poor urban neighborhoods - are victims just
as much as the Iraqis of the same horrendous process, which asks them
to die for a victory that will never be theirs." Arundhati Roy -
Source: Arundhati Roy, "Tide? Or Ivory Snow? Public Power in the Age of
Empire," 8/24/04
