Dad: Marine felt mission 'a bit fruitless' (insurgents always returned)

[sabra]

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http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/08/04/marines.reax/index.html

Dad: Marine felt mission 'a bit fruitless'
Schroeder was one of 21 Marines killed in Iraq; 13 from Ohio

CNN) -- The father of one of the Marines killed this week in Iraq said his son felt the U.S. mission was "a bit fruitless," because insurgents always returned after the military flushed them out.

"Every operation would be a week or two out in the field at some loss of life or at least wounded," said Paul Schroeder, father of 23-year-old Lance Cpl. Edward Schroeder II, who died Wednesday.

"And then they would leave, and then the insurgents would come back. And, obviously, they were back in Haditha, which was supposedly cleared out in Operation Newmarket in early June.

"The insurgents were back in Haditha yesterday. And his vehicle, unfortunately, hit -- struck a roadside bomb," the father told CNN Thursday from Ohio.
"So his comment to us about it was becoming less and less worthwhile, I think -- I took to mean that he was seeing that this was a bit fruitless."

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[wakeme2008]

1. Any Vietnam Vet would tell you

the same thing about that War.

[saigon68]

7. Yup its IRAQ-NAM

The same tricks that work in any Guerrilla War.

[Ernesto]

18. Bingo saigon!

It's just a shame that we are lead by a crowd of chickenhawks who have never known war.

[hobbit709]

2. 40 years later

Same story, same results. More useless, needless casualties for nothing.

[thebigidea]

3. of course they're back, they fucking live there.

millions of em, on all four sides - to quote the Firesign Theatre.

[Jacobin]

8. LOL

An obvious point that gets missed by the punditocracy.

(pssst. they don't want us there)

[grytpype]

12. fst

It's the Planter's Moon tonight... all them gooks are gonna be out wadin in the patties!

[bushisanidiot]

4. Didn't CNN get their morning talking points? They aren't supposed to

discuss the war, much less how soldiers feel about fighting in Iraq. Isn't there a blonde white girl in trouble somewhere that they could be focusing on? Or, how about the space shuttle??

:P

[kath]

19. Or hows 'bout a shark attack, or someone killed by lightning??

[leftchick]

5. RIP....

:cry:

[Botany]

6. This is so sad

Because of 9/11 we invade a country that had nothing to do w/ 9/11
to look for weapons that were not there and fight for ground just to
give it back to the same people we fought w/.

[rodeodance]

9. "fruitles"---yes, I head him say this cable TV--lets hope lots of ppl

were listening.

[GreenArrow]

10. "give it back to the same people we fought w/."

Except the oil wells. Don't forget the oil wells. And the Military bases; gotta include those too.

[warrens]

11. Occupying a country is nearly impossible long-term

Particularly if you were too stupid to guard ammo dumps because you were too busy nailing down the Oil Ministry.

[damntexdem]

13. Oh, but we're making progress, the insurgency is in its throes --

long-term throes. There's light at the end of the tunnel.

And suicide bombings are way down BOOOOOM

[no_to_war_economy]

14. i don't think Vietnam turned until

the veterans spoke out and marched against the war

when are the Iraq veterans gonna throw back their medals

[ticapnews]

15. The insurgents just have to leave to get more flowers, then come back

to give them to our soldiers.

These insurgents are just so misunderstood, aren't they Mr. Wolfowitz?

In fact, as of today these insurgents have delivered flowers to (officially) 15017 of our soldiers. Sadly, 1828 soldiers apparently had an allergic reaction to the flowers, or something, and died. :sarcasm:

:cry: :nuke:

[The_Casual_Observer]

16. So, what is the military objective in Iraq?

What is the "job" that bush is going to finish?
How long would it take before "insurgents" dismantled any form of government that we might install over there?
I think that place out Vietnams Vietnam.

[ticapnews]

17. We have to pump as much oil as possible..

and get the oil out of the ground before our soldiers all die in fireballs. The job might not take as long as they think, because there isn't as much oil as everyone hoped. Once all the oil is gone, who the hell cares what kind of government the brown people install? Just look at Africa: They have no oil + they aren't white = Who Gives a Cheney?

Personally, I think that's bull Novak, but that's a 45-second primer on US foreign policy in the 21st century.