Iraq Veterans Against the War (IVAW): The Iraq War Logs

The recent Wikileaks release—The Iraq War Logs—has shed important light on the high rate of civilian deaths and widespread atrocities, including torture

IVAW members are reviewing both Wikileaks' Afghanistan War Diaries and the Iraq War Logs to identify incidents they were part of and to shed more light on what really happened

COMMONDREAMS Oct 27, 2010 | The recent Wikileaks release—The Iraq War Logs—has shed important light on the high rate of civilian death and widespread atrocities, including torture, that are endemic to the war in Iraq. As veterans of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, we are outraged that the U.S. government sought to hide this information from the U.S. public, instead presenting a sanitized and deceptive version of war, and we think it is vital for this and further information to get out. Members of IVAW have experienced firsthand the realities of war on the ground, and since our inception we have spoken out about similar atrocities in Iraq and Afghanistan. We are asking the U.S. public to join us in calling on our government to end the occupations and bring our brothers and sisters home.  

The U.S. government has been claiming for years that they do not keep count of civilian death tolls, yet the recent releases show that…

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