If you haven’t heard the recent "Winter Soldier" testimonies either at a special meeting in Washington, D.C., or in front of Congress last week, you owe it yourself to hear from these veterans firsthand what they have and are going through.  It’s one thing to hear propaganda from the government or from FoxNews or CNN about our soldiers; it’s quite another to hear the soldiers, many of them who have served several tours of duty and who have been honorably discharged, talking candidly about their experiences in Iraq.

These are not a few discontented, dishonorably discharged veterans who are speaking out. These are decorated, honorably discharged men and women who can no longer bear to remain silent about what they have witnessed and about what our government is doing to people in another country.

You can see a C-Span video of their testimony before Congress at [1] Iraq war veterans’ testimony about their experiences in iraq & Afghanistan

My favorite lines from the "Matrix", lines which have come to symbolize everything the last 8 years of media neglect have wrought:  You have to decide in committing time to listening to the testimony…red pill or blue pill?

Morpheus: You take the blue pill and the story ends. You wake in your bed and believe whatever you want to believe. (a red pill is shown in his other hand) You take the red pill and you stay in Wonderland and I show you how deep the rabbit-hole goes. (Long pause; Neo begins to reach for the red pill) Remember — all I am offering is the truth, nothing more.