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Swagman

(1,934 posts)
Sat Mar 23, 2013, 07:07 AM Mar 2013

Iraq contractor tells of his year of hell in a 'futile, stupid war'

HE can still smell Iraq. He can even taste it.

Iraq tasted like dust, a fine talcum powder which was always on the wind and which eked its way into everything.

The smell was of oil, of garbage which was never collected, and of death. And there is one other smell which lingers. It is the equally repugnant stench of human waste, which was burned for want of a better method of disposal.

Ten years after the start of the Iraq war, David, an Australian security contractor who worked with the US army, cannot remove Iraq from his mind, from his senses, from his very being. He spent just over a year there safeguarding US army convoys and bases. It is a year which has changed his life forever

http://www.news.com.au/world-news/iraq-contractor-tells-my-year-of-hell-in-a-futile-stupid-war/story-fndir2ev-1226603060461#ixzz2OMNPkldf

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Iraq contractor tells of his year of hell in a 'futile, stupid war' (Original Post) Swagman Mar 2013 OP
"Notoriously pro-Arabic Al Jazeera" Fumesucker Mar 2013 #1
K&R idwiyo Mar 2013 #2
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Fumesucker

(45,851 posts)
1. "Notoriously pro-Arabic Al Jazeera"
Sat Mar 23, 2013, 07:38 AM
Mar 2013


Like *everything* in the US wasn't rah-rah USA #1?

The article sure implies that Iraqis are stupid for not buying American propaganda.

According to David, the Iraqi people never got it into their heads that it wasn't a religious war, that it wasn't about Christianity vs Islam.


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