{"id":3574,"date":"2007-05-18T13:18:04","date_gmt":"2007-05-18T20:18:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2007\/05\/18\/contaminated\/"},"modified":"2007-05-18T13:18:04","modified_gmt":"2007-05-18T20:18:04","slug":"contaminated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2007\/05\/18\/contaminated\/","title":{"rendered":"Contaminated"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.economist.com\/world\/na\/displaystory.cfm?story_id=9155635\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.economist.com\/images\/20070512\/1907US3.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>From the May 12-18 <em>Economist<\/em>:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.economist.com\/world\/na\/displaystory.cfm?story_id=9155635\">Soldiers in Iraq: Contaminated<\/a>&#8220;:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Of the 1,767 troops questioned by the Pentagon&#8217;s mental-health advisory team last September&#8230; less than half (47% of soldiers and 38% of marines) felt that non-combatants should be treated with dignity and respect, as required by the Geneva Conventions. &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>More worrying, only around half said they would be willing to report a member of their unit for killing or injuring an innocent non-combatant&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>The more often and the longer that soldiers were deployed in Iraq, the more likely they were to suffer mental-health problems and to mistreat civilians.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8212;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.economist.com\/world\/asia\/displaystory.cfm?story_id=9164957\">Afghanistan: Hearts, minds and death<\/a>&#8220;:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>THE American army this week delivered an apology, and blood money, too, to the families of 19 Afghan civilians killed and 50 wounded by a special forces unit of American marines near Jalalabad on March 4th. &#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>In the wake of the &#8230; shootings, Afghan journalists were quickly on the scene. Several were threatened or had their film erased by American soldiers. One reporter was told: \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Delete the photos or I delete you.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The <em>Economist<\/em> encouraged the invasion of Iraq.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.progressdaily.com\/?s=economist\">I read the <em>Economist<\/em> so you don&#8217;t have to.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the May 12-18 Economist: &#8220;Soldiers in Iraq: Contaminated&#8220;: Of the 1,767 troops questioned by the Pentagon&#8217;s mental-health advisory team last September&#8230; less than half (47% of soldiers and 38% of marines) felt that non-combatants should be treated with dignity and respect, as required by the Geneva Conventions. &#8230; More worrying, only around half said [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[676],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-3574","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-antiwar-movement"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"meta_box":{"disable_donate_message":"","custom_donate_message":"","subtitle":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3574","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3574"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3574\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3574"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=3574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}