The war extends to those who would provide evidence for its true costs. I recall the soldier who called Seymour Hersh in tears about a military slaughter of Iraqi civilians guarding a local business, a group of Iraqis his unit had recently befreinded while they camped and awaited new orders. Hersh told him to serve his time and keep quiet unless he wanted a bullet in the back. This is a war on the truth as well, when that truth does not serve the political ends of the ill-conceived and mass-deceived nature of this war.

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Mr Ambassador, I believe that your government and its Iraqi surrogates are waging two wars in Iraq. One war is against the Iraqi people, and it has claimed an estimated 100,000 lives. The other is a war on witnesses.