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Dispensing with the expenses for
injured soldiers in sending them back to Iraq reveals the hidden face of warfare - let alone that the civilians of Iraq have to face the mortal danger of such politics.
Also because of the implications of the Iraq war it is not possible to publish in the US the one book existing on how American military tribunals dealt with the madness of soldiers as far back as during WW II built entirely on totally neglected records in the War archives. Which means the tip of the iceberg.
Written by the wonderfully courageous American criminologist, J Robert Lilly of Northern Kentucky University and the UK Durham University,this harrowing portrait of the hidden face of war has the ominous title Taken by Force: Rape and American Soldiers in the European Theater of Operations during World War II (England France Germany) 1942-1945.
Books exists so far only in a French translation as "La Face cachée des GI´s" published in 2003 by Payot in Paris with an excellent foreword by Fabrice Virgili. He stresses rightfully that no other country has had the courage to dig in their own archives to tell the truth on the behaviour of their troops sent to war.
