How an American war hero is taking his battle over Iraq to Washington: "In the aftermath of America's worst month in Iraq, when 79 of its soldiers died, Col Hackworth this week received an email from a 'combat leader' involved in the firefight in the city of Samarra in which US forces claimed to have killed 54 attackers. Local people insisted that only eight people, mostly civilians, had been killed.
In his email to Colonel Hackworth, who he has known for eight years, the soldier with the 4th Infantry Division wrote of Sunday's incident: 'Hack, most of the casualties were civilians, not insurgents or criminals as being reported.'
He added: 'We are probably turning many Iraqi against us and I am afraid instead of climbing out of the hole, we are digging ourselves in deeper.'"

Colonel Hackworth's two websites: www.hackworth.com and www.sftt.org.
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