Movement for the Abolition of War

"Ronald Glasser quotes one army nurse in Baghdad: "We're saving the really severely injured, legs gone, blinded, deaf, parts of brain destroyed. You may go home, but you won't be the same as when you left."  As Glasser writes, "Those that the nurse talks about now number in the tens of thousands .......unlike all our other wars, the real legacy of Iraq and Afghanistan is no longer the graveyard, but the orthopedics ward, the neurological unit, and the psychiatric out-patient department."

"A review of the Afghan military documents revealed that more than 1,100 instances of US-led forces - including Danish troops - having used white phosphorous (WP) grenades, rockets and bombs, the Danish Daily Information reported."

As a new report from War on Want exposes the reality of Britain’s war in Afghanistan, the organisation’s Executive Director, John Hilary, calls for an immediate end to the occupation.

"In October, as many as 50,000 troops and paramilitary personnel were flung into an assault against Taliban strongholds in South Waziristan. Dozens of towns and villages were reduced to rubble by army bombardments and more than 400,000 civilians fled the agency."

"Broadwell explicitly describes the village as being victimised by the Taliban first, then being completely obliterated by the Americans."