Veterans of Wikileaks video write “Letter of Reconcilliation” to Iraqis Injured in Attack

BREAKING NEWS

Josh Stieber and Ethan McCord, members of Bravo Company 2-16, are making a stand against the war and are rallying supporters.  Go to www.lettertoiraq.com to read the letter they are sending to the Iraqis who survived the Apache attack.

A second veteran of Bravo Company 2-16, Ethan McCord, has spoken out about the incident shown in the Wikileaks video “Collateral Murder”. Ethan is seen in the video rushing a wounded child (pictured Right) to a medical vehicle. 

Sajad Mutashar and his sister were both injured in the attack that killed their father in 2007.

We have been working with Ethan and Josh to help them take their message to a larger audience. Stay tuned here for updates.

PRESS RELEASE AND CONTACT INFO HERE: Josh Stieber deployed to Baghdad with Bravo Company 2-16, whose members were involved in the controversial Wikileaks “Collateral Murder” incident that has surfaced recently. Though he was not at the scene of the video due to a punishment for refusing an order a few days earlier, he served for 14-months alongside these same same soldiers seen in the video. Josh is now speaking out, telling the world that at the time, these actions were not extremely out of the ordinary for any soldiers serving in Iraq, and that these soldiers were not “bad apples”, but were carrying out U.S. military policy: “If these videos shock and revolt you, they show the reality of what war is like,” says Stieber. “If you don’t like what you see in them, it means we should be working harder towards alternatives to war.”

Josh is now a member of Iraq Veterans Against the War and works to promote peace and alternatives to war on his blog Contagious Love Experiment. We have been working with Josh on this story and have supported him through an ad hoc media team we formed along with members of IVAW.

THINGS YOU CAN DO (JOSH’S SUGGESTIONS):

A guide to organizing with veterans and service members to build a GI resistance movement.

A project of the Civilian Soldier Alliance, Iraq Veterans Against the War, and The War Resisters League.

Photos from “Refusing to Fight” event in Baltimore last Saturday.