Ten years later we are all aware of the damage caused in Iraq by the war: the thousands of civilians killed including women and children, the destruction of infrastructure, the millions now living in poverty, the high levels of corruption.

Less known or acknowledged are the terrible effects of the war on American soldiers: those now lacking access to medical services, those traumatized by war for life or left with incapacitating sequela.

A letter sent to George W. Bush and Dick Cheney by Thomas Young, a 33-year-old American soldier who participated in the war, and who was initially featured in the movie documentary "Body of War," is one of the most damning criticisms of a war that has destroyed so much and created so little.