Delgado said he saw an Army master sergeant lash Iraqi children with a Humvee antenna. He recalled seeing a Marine send another child flying with a boot to the chest, and men in his unit pelt Iraqi civilians in Nasiriyah with glass soda bottles thrown from a military vehicle.
"The point of showing this is not to shock you," Delgado, 23, told his audience at the University of San Diego's Joan B. Kroc Institute for Peace and Justice, one of dozens of stops on his intermittent national tour.
"We don't have a really good sense of Iraqi civilians as human beings. It's not part of the news coverage," he said.
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