This opinion piece about the War in Iraq strikes me as highly partisan. The author tends to present his own opinions as facts, or uses evidence selectively to back up his points. The loaded language used in this piece also reduces its credibility, despite its best intentions.

Author describes US soldiers in Iraq as wanton killers. Brutal and horrifying anecdotes that lack a date, a time, a location, a unit designation, or any names. Such atrocity charges in American media are picked up by enemy media. Since they come from US sources they have great credibility and are used for recruitment and morale building purposes by the enemy.

Chris Hedges is an activist, and this is an attempt at building a narrative that he believes in. That narrative will be built no matter what the facts. This guy was a Bureau Chief for the New York Times. Yikes.