– of the war on terror. It’s the face that you won’t see on the 6:00PM news, the face that the politicians who decided that Iraq needed to be invaded and occupied don’t want people to think about… it is the inescapable face of war, and in this case it was an unnecessary one.

Sergeant Kevin Benderman cannot shake the images from his head. There are bombed villages and desperate people. There are dogs eating corpses thrown into a mass grave. And most unremitting of all, there is the image of a young Iraqi girl, no more than eight or nine, one arm severely burnt and blistered, and the sound of her screams.