Handbook to Iraq

A short Guide to Iraq writ­ten for Amer­i­can sol­diers who were sta­tioned in Iraq to pre­vent Nazis from seiz­ing the country’s oil.

“The best way to get along with any peo­ple is to under­stand them…If you are will­ing to go just a lit­tle out of your way to under­stand him, every­thing will be o.k.”

“Respect his reli­gion as he will respect yours…If any­thing, we should respect the Moslems the more for the inten­sity of their devo­tion.”

“And remem­ber that every Amer­i­can sol­dier is an unof­fi­cial ambas­sador of good­will.”

63 years later, this is what we get:

Lead­er­ship Fail­ure
First­hand Accounts of Tor­ture of Iraqi Detainees by the U.S. Army’s 82nd Air­borne Divi­sion