What I heard about Iraq in 2005
Eliot Weinberger: Iraq, 5 January 2006
“... base during a few months in 2003. In response to the report, I heard Lieutenant Colonel Jeremy Martin say: ‘The army’s a learning organisation. If we have some shortfalls, we try to correct them. We’ve learned how to do that process now.’ I heard a US soldier talk about his photographs of the 12 prisoners he had shot with a machine-gun: ‘I shot ... ”