Veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan wars are coming to Washington to reveal rampant war crimes.

U.S. war veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan have announced they’re planning to descend on Washington, DC this March to testify about war crimes they committed or personally witnessed in Iraq.

“The war in Iraq is not covered to its potential because of how dangerous it is for reporters to cover it,” said Liam Madden, a former Marine and member of the group Iraq Veterans Against the War. “That’s left a lot of misconceptions in the minds of the American public about what the true nature of military occupation looks like.”

Iraq Veterans Against the War argues that well-publicized incidents of American brutality like the Abu Ghraib prison scandal and the massacre of an entire family of Iraqis in the town of Haditha are not the isolated incidents perpetrated by “a few bad apples,” as many politicians and military leaders have claimed. They are part of a pattern, the group says, of “an increasingly bloody occupation.”

I would think that an event like this will finally put the nails into the coffin of the Iraq war and allow us to finally talk seriously about getting our troops out of there.

That will also effectively end any idea of John McCain riding to the top of the Republican field on news of a successful surge in Iraq.

It is time that Americans knew exactly how death is being delivered to innocent Iraqis in their name. And it is time to put to rest the idea that we are fighting al Qaeda in Iraq, when in fact we are killing shopkeepers, lawyers, school teachers, women and children.

This whole thing has been coated in sugar and force fed to the American public, and still we are against this war. Imagine how loud the protests will be when we finally see it in its harshest light.