truthout - Five Years Into War, Soldiers Speak

t r u t h o u t | 03.19

Five Years Into War, Soldiers Speak
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/031908J.shtml

Today marks the fifth anniversary of the day President Bush announced from the
Oval Office the "opening stages of what will be a broad and concerted campaign"
to invade Iraq. Five years later, more than 200 of those men and women joined
last week in Silver Spring, Maryland, to speak out against that mission and to
invest their government with the responsibility to end it. The event was called
"Winter Soldier." In the coming weeks, Truthout will bring you in-depth video
and written coverage of the issues raised in testimony at Winter Soldier. Matt
Renner interviews Winter Soldier coordinator Perry O'Brien, while Maya Schenwar
writes on the event's significance.