What happened in Iraq, stays in Iraq!

Joseph Goebbels
Hitler's propaganda minister

This is a quotation frequently mentioned in American TV series today, especially the ones dealing with terrorism and post war life of combatants in USA. There generally try to forget their bitter experiences, hoping not to repeat the atrocities, cope with their post-traumatic stress disorder and start life anew! Perhaps, deep inside, what they may be thinking is that what they did in war zone was justified to deal with a less 'cultured' society and to uphold the sovereignty of their own motherland in carrying out the crusade to fox out the wrongdoers and enemies!
Growing up in the strict family, without much of exposure to the outside world, perhaps limited to gossips that the housewives who used to come and chat with Amma and TV! What a naive young adult I had been!
When I started working, my liaison with LKH opened my eyes to the many evils that people do at different times of  their lives in a totally unguarded environment.
LKH and I started working on the same day and were posted to the same department. We stayed just a few doors from each other and we clicked quite well. He was the chatty one whilst I, the good listener! And he loved food - boy, could he eat! He found splendour in the spiciest of the Andhra cooking, the hottest of the nasi lemak and the most authentic of the Chinese cooking. So, every free non working day was a new stall to try out!
During these liaisons did he spill the beans about the unspoken 'bro code' that existed between him and his fellow colleagues in his previous school of study in a foreign land. Every body had a secret to hide, a thing or two in their closet, something up their sleeves that they regret and forget of what they had done at an impressionable age and lack of inhibition or inner wisdom. Maybe it is better to leave sleeping dogs lie. Waking the snoozing canine would only disturb the tranquility and stir unnecessary irritations. The sight of the unsightly proverbial worms of out the can will do no one any good.
Whatever happened in Iraq, stays in Iraq. Of course, we do not know how much of the stories are actually true. As Vladmir Lenin once said, "A lie told often enough becomes the truth".

One quotation from Joseph Goebbels that makes lots of sense: (often misquoted for the above quotation)

A child laughs when it feels joy and cries when it feels pain. Both things, laughing and crying it does with its whole heart. We all became so tall and so clever. We know so much and we have read so much. But one thing we forgot: to laugh and cry like the children do.