Veterans Day? Vets return medals w/ disgust

Co-Hosts Nermeen Sheik, Amy Goodman (Democracy Now!, 5/16/12); Pfc. Sandoval (veteransforpeace.org), Ashley Wells (Codepink), Sheldon S. (JVP) (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

Why, why did I let the recruiter con me into killing human beings?! (Getty Images)

Decorated US War on Iraq Veteran Aaron Hughes to return military medals at anti-NATO protest 

What in the h*ll am I doing here killing?

(Democracy Now!) Veterans of the US wars on Iraq and Afghanistan will join thousands of protesters at the NATO summit in Chicago.

Democracy Now! speaks to Iraq Veterans Against the War's Aaron Hughes, who's among a number of Afghanistan and Iraq war vets planning to return their medals of honor to visiting NATO generals.

Veterans want US to end its imperialism.

"[Veterans] have to live with the failed policy of the global war on terror on a daily basis," Hughes says. "What have we been doing in this decade-long war?

"There is a real moral disconnect between that the idea that our military can build a democracy and the idea that our military is trained and designed to control, dominate and kill people...

Thieves of State (S. Chayes)

"Occupations do not build democracies. Occupations do not extend individuals' freedoms. The movements of the [so-called] Arab Spring, that was building democracy. The movements of Gandhi [in India], of civil rights in this country, people's movements, that's what extends democracy."

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