Chris Hedges & Laila Al-Arian: "Collateral Damage: American's War Against Iraqi Civilians" With British MP GEORGE GALLOWAY!

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"We are embarking on an occupation that…will be as damaging to our souls as…to our prestige, power and security.”
-Chris Hedges just prior to the US invasion of Iraq

In their book Collateral Damage: America’s War Against Iraqi Civilians, journalists CHRIS HEDGES and LAILA AL-ARIAN bring us the voices of fifty U.S. combat vets with the moral courage to speak out: “Civilians are routinely run over or shot to death. Soldiers fire upon Iraqi vehicles with impunity. Late-night detentions…terrify women, traumatize children, and radicalize the young men caught in their dragnet.”

Civilians ask: "Can you imagine being innocent and no one understands what you're saying? Not able to stop the car at a check point because the brakes don't work? Having your friends killed because they couldn't avoid a convoy?"

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Chris Hedges is a Pulitzer-Prize-winning former New York Times reporter and graduate of Harvard Divinity School. He also received the Amnesty International Global Award for Human Rights Journalism.

Laila Al-Arian is a writer/producer for Al Jazeera International. Her writings have been published in The Nation, UPI, and Alternet. She is a graduate of Columbia School of Journalism. Her father, professor and activist Sami Al-Arian, has been unjustly imprisoned on bogus charges of . violating the Patriot Act.