Checkpoints, Raids, Detentions, and Hearts and Minds—War’s Impact on Iraqi Civilians

While the U.S. troop casualty count in Iraq has reached over 4,000, this number is but a small fraction representing the loss of life that Iraqi civilians have endured over the last five years. Best-selling author and Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Chris Hedges joins the Council to offer his insight into the war’s impact on innocent Iraqi civilians and to discuss his new book Collateral Damage. With journalist Laila al-Arian, Hedges spent the past year interviewing over fifty returning Iraqi war veterans to provide this report on America’s War in Iraq and the price that is being paid by many innocent individuals.

This event is co-sponsored by the Marines' Memorial Association and the Persian Center.