Peace activist and Iraq war veteran Michael Prysner speaks to tens of thousands at a “Let Gaza Live” mass protest.
An American war veteran in the US warfare in Iraq says the United States initiated the hostilities as a pretext to establish its dominion over the country.
Speaking in a recent interview with Press TV, Michael Prysner, the US war veteran and peace activist said that the invasion of Iraq in 2003 was “a complete sham” and not meant to liberate the Iraqis as pledged by US authorities.
Prysner, a corporal in the US army at the time of invasion, said he intended to help the Iraqi people but later realized every action by the US military only added to the sufferings of the Iraqi people.
“I joined the army because I wanted to serve my country, because I believed that the US military was a force for good in the world, that we helped those in need, that we freed the oppressed,” he noted.
“So, I believed that really in my heart and when the Iraq war started I volunteered to go on the deployment, I wanted to go, and I believed whole-heartedly that we were going to help the Iraqi people, and that’s what I wanted to do and I was willing to give my life to that,” he added.
He admitted, however, that the war was a means of control of the battle-weary country.
“I saw that it was not for the liberation of the Iraqi people at all. I saw that it wasn’t to help the Iraqi people at all, and I saw that I was doing exactly the opposite, that I was just hurting the Iraqi people,” said the former US service member.
“Everyday was a catastrophe for them and it was seeing day by day the things that were committed against them, the lives that they had to live under occupation, I realized that it was a complete sham that we were there to help them,” he further explained.
“The goal of the US government was to go in and quickly overthrow the government, and then set up a kind of State, I mean this is their fantasy of just easily overthrowing the country and that hasn’t happened,” added Prysner who is now leader of March Forward, an organization of American veterans from both the Iraq and Afghanistan conflict.
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