in America you never see a coffin , even though 18 vets a day commit suicide

Thank GOD western taxpayers are quickly bleeding to death and the war
will end in a few more decades

"When Evan's book was reviewed by the Marine Corps, they actually gave
it a medal - so clearly they saw something worthy of the Marine
Corps," he says, sitting on a hotel sofa the night after a media
screening at a West End cinema.

"When I read the book I thought, 'This outfit's fucked up' - the
opposite of where the medal was going. So that's the conflict. If you
start empathising with the characters you'll find they do things that
conflict with your ideology.

.. "The war in Iraq is a shame, a great shame," he says sadly. "You
might not be able to articulate the shame as an individual American
but the aura of shame is there.

And you've turned your back on it. The same way that Katrina blew in
and showed us that goddamned poverty was still there. You were pissed
at Katrina, like - I thought those people went away!"

He is, however, unwavering in his support for the actual soldiers and
critical of those on the left who don't sympathise. "Even the title
Generation Kill is probably not fair," he argues. "These guys anguish
over the rules of engagement.

We didn't anguish over the war, we just said, 'Let's *** 'em up.'
I was in the UK last year when four British soldiers were killed in
Afghanistan and on the news you saw the four coffins coming off the
plane, carried in honour.

In America you will never see a coffin. Even though we are more
aware of these people right now, something like 18 US veterans a day
commit suicide. The left is aware of that and is very apathetic
towards that.

"When this thing winds down, the money's going to run out and the
number of guys who are fucked up is extremely high. I live in West
Virginia, about ten miles away from a Veterans Affairs hospital. Right
behind it there are woods filled with camps where you'll find guys
from Vietnam still camped out . . . They're left alone.
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