text: This is great reporting, but the real criminals are the suits who sent Sgt. Rodriguez to war in Iraq in the first place. Probably a million people are dead because of prodigious lying, cherry picking, incompetence and fear mongering  by Bush, Cheney and Rumsfeld and company.
  
  The Iraq War itself is a disgrace, a blot on the national character as bad as anything the US has ever done, no matter how well, or badly, individual soldiers performed their duty. We will never see the end of its ramifications. 
  
  Maybe the worst is the betrayal of America's young soldiers' fervent commitment to duty, fraternity and the nation. All of that was wasted, at best. At worst, they were betrayed for short term political advantage and corporate profits. And there are hundreds of thousands of Iraqi dead and maimed as well, a war crime of epic dimensions, one for which no atonement is possible.