I’m not naïve about nasty things people can do, including American troops, but does this sound plausible? From Bob Herbert today, citing a conscientious objecter who was in Iraq named Aidan Delgado:

The officer’s comment was a harbinger of the gratuitous violence that, according to Mr. Delgado, is routinely inflicted by American soldiers on ordinary Iraqis. He said: “Guys in my unit, particularly the younger guys, would drive by in their Humvee and shatter bottles over the heads of Iraqi civilians passing by. They’d keep a bunch of empty Coke bottles in the Humvee to break over people’s heads.”