“I just remember thinking to myself, I just brought terror to someone else under the American flag, and that’s just not what I joined the Army to do,” he said
The Nation has a fascinating survey of US vets returning from Iraq. It is being much quoted in the media and on the net, but it is well worth reading the original.
http://www.thenation.com/doc/20070730/hedges
You may have to click botton right to get past the financial appeal first – although the financial appeal itself is pretty interesting.