DoD Identifies Army Casualty # 2544

[saigon68]

U.S. Department of Defense
Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense (Public Affairs)
News Release

http://www.defenselink.mil/releases/2006/nr20060712-13429.html

IMMEDIATE RELEASE No. 660-06
July 12, 2006

DoD Identifies Army Casualty


The Department of Defense announced today the death of a soldier who was supporting Operation Iraqi Freedom.



Sgt. Duane J. Dreasky, 31, of Novi, Mich., died on July 10, in the Brooke Army Medical Center, San Antonio, Texas, of injuries sustained when an improvised explosive device detonated near his HMMWV in Habbaniyah, Iraq, on Nov. 21. Dreasky was assigned to the Army National Guard's 1st Battalion, 119th Field Artillery, Lansing, Mich.


FOR THE BUSH CRIMINALS YOU ASS HOLES

IT TOOK 8 MONTHS FOR THIS GUY TO DIE IN THE ARMY BURN CENTER AFTER HE WAS COOKED INTO A CRISPY CRITTER BY AN IED

FUCK YOU

[alcibiades_mystery]

1. Welcome to the Desert of the Real...

...

[Olney Blue]

2. OMG, when is this madness going to end?

[rodeodance]

3. i do not know!!

[IndianaGreen]

4. Didn't we hit 2,500 on Flag Day?

At this rate we will we hit 2,600 by Labour Day, if not sooner.

[saigon68]

10. Yes 2500 in June-- This guy died 2 days ago (just reported today)

He lingered for 8 months in the Burn Center at Brooks in San Antonio, I'm assuming in agony.

[IndianaGreen]

20. Here is a picture of him meeting Bush at Brooks Medical Center

You will have to go to the link:

http://www.detnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060630/METRO/606300359

[saigon68]

27. The Chimp won't be attending his funeral

[w8liftinglady]

5. Thank you for posting this...what a terrible way to die

i worked at the second largest burn center in Texas,next to Brooks.The suffering these patients endure is beyond comprehension.Are you proud,Republican chickenhawk bastards?When are your kids going to join in the "fun"?

[UpInArms]

6. Rest in Peace, Sgt. Duane J. Dreasky, 31, of Novi, Michigan

For you, this war is over. For those that remain, it goes on and on.

The BFEE's forever war

[IndianaGreen]

7. Dreasky was one of 5 burned to crisp in Iraq, they all subsequently died

These guys were Guardsmen, they were supposed to be here in the US to help us during natural disasters, not in Iraq in a war of choice.

According to a later story, all of them died eventually of their wounds!


Duane Dreasky before
being wounded

Complications from the burns and their injuries slowly claimed the men who rode with Dreasky. Akers, 35, of Traverse City was in command of the Humvee and died Dec. 8. Youmans, 26, of Flushing died March 1. Webber, 23, of Kalamazoo died April 27.

News of their deaths has been kept from Dreasky, who asks about them daily.

http://www.detnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060630/METRO/606300359

4 Michigan guardsmen critically injured in Iraq

Saginaw-based soldiers were burned in attack that killed Hazel Park soldier

SAGINAW, Mich. -- An attack that killed one Michigan soldier in Iraq also burned four others.

Injured were Sgt. Spencer Akers of Traverse City, 35; Sgt. Duane Dreasky, 31, of Novi; Sgt. Matthew Webber, 23, of Stanwood; and Spc. Joshua Youman, 25, of Flushing.

All four -- members of the National Guard's Saginaw-based 125th Infantry Regiment -- were listed in critical condition Thursday in Landstuhl, Germany, WJRT-TV in Flint reported.

The National Guard said the men were being transported to Fort Sam Houston's burn unit in Texas.

The soldiers were injured when their Humvee hit a land mine.

Pfc. John Dearing, of Hazel Park, a gunner on the Humvee, was killed instantly.

http://www.detnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20051126/METRO/511260369/1026/SCHOOLS

There is a picture in here of Sgt. Dreasky, taken 2 weeks ago!:

Born to be a soldier

Survivor becomes symbol of hope for Mich. unit that lost 6; Guardsman's spirit inspires Bush

Edward L. Cardenas / The Detroit News

Friday, June 30, 2006


Sgt. Duane Dreasky of Novi never expected a bedside visit from his commander in chief, but even swaddled in bandages, his response was immediate.

"He tried to salute, and the president said, 'You don't need to salute, I need to salute you," his wife, Mandeline Dreasky, recalled of the five-minute visit her husband shared with George W. Bush at Brooke Army Medical Center in San Antonio. "He was so proud and I was emotional for him. Bush is his hero."

As the only survivor of a blast in Iraq that killed four of his comrades, Dreasky has become something of a symbol of hope for a Michigan National Guard unit that has lost six citizen soldiers -- more than any other unit in the state.

He also is an example of how advances in evacuation techniques -- and new, cutting-edge care at U.S. military hospitals -- are allowing more soldiers to survive injuries that might have killed them in previous conflicts.

For Mandeline Dreasky, the drama of her husband's condition began on a day in November, when she arrived at her in-laws' Novi home, knowing Army officers were waiting inside with potentially devastating news about her husband.

http://www.detnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060630/METRO/606300359

Guard unit returns minus six members

Published Tuesday, June 20, 2006 12:42:02 PM Central Time

Besides Brown, the other soldiers killed were Spc. Dane O. Carver, 20, of Freeport; Sgt. Spencer Akers, 35, of Traverse City; Pfc. John Dearing, 21, of Hazel Park; Sgt. Matthew A. Webber, 23, of Stanwood; and Sgt. Joshua V. Youmans, 26, of Genesee County's Flushing Township.

A seventh soldier from the unit, Sgt. Duane Dreasky of Novi, continues to recover at a San Antonio military hospital. He was injured when an improvised explosive device went off near his vehicle in Habbaniyah, the same incident that killed Akers, Dearing, Webber and Youmans.

http://www.eagleherald.com/nrth0620.asp

[saigon68]

11. Bush is his hero (the above quote)

Sorry to say--past tense (was)

[IndianaGreen]

14. The fanaticism of some of these troops reminds me of the SS

These people are just like the Nazis that died in the battlefield thinking of their beloved Fuehrer. This also says volumes as to the long lasting effect of rightwing propaganda. I am sure that the late Sgt Dreasky began his brainwashing by listening to the likes of Rush Limbaugh during the Clinton Administration. By the time that the 2000 stolen election came about, he was probably among those that thought that Jesus wanted Bush to be President. He died after a long and painful recovery, as did his buddies in that Humvee. I don't think Bush will be attending his funeral.

[psychopomp]

24. How awful

RIP, soldier.

[TheLastMohican]

28. I am speechless

They all come from the places I visit very often. Sad families, what kind of hell are they going through?:cry:

[0007]

8. Pile the bodies high....

Grass Bush

Pile the bodies high in Austerlitz and Waterloo Iraq
Shovel them under and let me work--
I am the grass; bush; I cover all.

And pile them high in Gettyburg Baghdad
And pile them high in Ypres and Vedum Mossoul and Al Fallaujah

Two years, ten years, and passengers ask the conductor:
What place is this?

I am the grass bush.
Let me work.

Carl Sandburg


Support the war - Donate a Son a daughter
The GOP working for a better America
God Bless America

[deadparrot]

9. RIP.

...

[truthisfreedom]

12. 3000 on the way. abomination. bush doesn't believe in God. only death.

and keeping the spigot in Iraq screwed tightly shut to jack up oil prices.

[seemslikeadream]

13. I'm waiting to hear the words 'I was wrong' Dick Morris, 4/9/03

2506 "I'm waiting to hear the words 'I was wrong' Dick Morris, 4/9/03
http://journals.democraticunderground.com/seemslikeadream/109


"Tommy Franks and the coalition forces have demonstrated the old axiom
that boldness on the battlefield produces swift and relatively
bloodless victory. The three-week swing through Iraq has utterly
shattered skeptics' complaints." (Fox News Channel's Tony Snow,
4/27/03)



"The only people who think this wasn't a victory are Upper Westside
liberals, and a few people here in Washington." (Charles Krauthammer,
Inside Washington, WUSA-TV, 4/19/03)



"I will bet you the best dinner in the gaslight district of San Diego
that military action will not last more than a week. Are you willing to
take that wager?" (Fox News Channel's Bill O'Reilly, 1/29/03)



"What's he going to talk about a year from now, the fact that the war
went too well and it's over? I mean, don't these things sort of lose
their--Isn't there a fresh date on some of these debate points?"
(MSNBC's Chris Matthews, speaking about Howard Dean--4/9/03)



"It is amazing how thorough the victory in Iraq really was in the
broadest context..... And the silence, I think, is that it's clear that
nobody can do anything about it. There isn't anybody who can stop him.
The Democrats can't oppose--cannot oppose him politically."
(Washington Post reporter Jeff Birnbaum-- Fox News Channel, 5/2/03)



"Now that the war in Iraq is all but over, should the people in
Hollywood who opposed the president admit they were wrong?"
(Fox News Channel's Alan Colmes, 4/25/03)



"I'm waiting to hear the words 'I was wrong' from some of the world's
most elite journalists, politicians and Hollywood types.... I just
wonder, who's going to be the first elitist to show the character to
say: 'Hey, America, guess what? I was wrong'? Maybe the White House
will get an apology, first, from the New York Times' Maureen Dowd. Now,
Ms. Dowd mocked the morality of this war....

"Do you all remember Scott Ritter, you know, the former chief U.N.
weapons inspector who played chief stooge for Saddam Hussein? Well, Mr.
Ritter actually told a French radio network that -- quote, "The United
States is going to leave Baghdad with its tail between its legs,
defeated." Sorry, Scott. I think you've been chasing the wrong tail,
again.

"Over the next couple of weeks when we find the chemical weapons this
guy was amassing, the fact that this war was attacked by the left and
so the right was so vindicated, I think, really means that the left is
going to have to hang its head for three or four more years."
(Fox News Channel's Dick Morris, 4/9/03)



"This has been a tough war for commentators on the American left. To
hope for defeat meant cheering for Saddam Hussein. To hope for victory
meant cheering for President Bush. The toppling of Mr. Hussein, or at
least a statue of him, has made their arguments even harder to defend.
Liberal writers for ideologically driven magazines like The Nation and
for less overtly political ones like The New Yorker did not predict a
defeat, but the terrible consequences many warned of have not happened.
Now liberal commentators must address the victory at hand and confront
an ascendant conservative juggernaut that asserts United States might
can set the world right."
(New York Times reporter David Carr, 4/16/03)



"Well, the hot story of the week is victory.... The Tommy Franks-Don
Rumsfeld battle plan, war plan, worked brilliantly, a three-week war
with mercifully few American deaths or Iraqi civilian deaths.... There
is a lot of work yet to do, but all the naysayers have been humiliated
so far.... The final word on this is, hooray."
(Fox News Channel's Morton Kondracke, 4/12/03)



"Shouldn't the prime minister and all of us who thought the
war was hasty and dangerous and wrongheaded admit that we were wrong? I
mean, with the pictures of those Iraqis dancing in the streets, hauling
down statues of Saddam Hussein and gushing their thanks to the
Americans, isn't it clear that President Bush and Britain's Tony Blair
were right all along? If we believe it's a good thing that Hussein's
regime has been dismantled, aren't we hypocritical not to acknowledge
Bush's superior judgment?... Why can't those of us who thought the war
was a bad idea (or, at any rate, a premature one) let it go now and
just join in celebrating the victory wrought by our magnificent
military forces?"
(Washington Post's William Raspberry, 4/14/03)



"This will be no war -- there will be a fairly brief and ruthless
military intervention.... The president will give an order. attack] will be rapid, accurate and dazzling.... It will be greeted by
the majority of the Iraqi people as an emancipation. And I say, bring
it on."
(Christopher Hitchens, in a 1/28/03 debate-- cited in the Observer,
3/30/03)



"Speaking to the U.N. Security Council last week, Secretary of State
Colin Powell made so strong a case that Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein
is in material breach of U.N. resolutions that only the duped, the dumb
and the desperate could ignore it."
(Cal Thomas, syndicated column, 2/12/03)




Until the philosophy,
Which holds one race superior
And another inferior,
Is finally and permanently
Discredited and abandoned,
Everywhere is war.

WAR

Until there is no longer first class
Or second class citizens of any nation.
Until the color of a man's skin,
Is of no more significance than
The color of his eyes,
I've got to say "war".

WAR

That until the basic human rights,
Are equally guaranteed to all,
Without regard to race,
I'll say "war"

Until that day the dream of lasting peace,
World-citizenship and the rule of
International morality will remain
Just a fleeting illusion to be pursued,
But never obtained.
And everywhere is war.

Until the ignoble and unhappy regime
Which holds all of us through,
Child-abuse, yeah, child-abuse yeah,
Sub-human bondage has been toppled,
Utterly destroyed,
Everywhere is war.

War in the east,
War in the west,
War up north,
War down south,
There is war,
And the rumors of war.

Until that day,
the african continent will know no peace
There is no continent,
Which will know peace.

Children, children.

Fight!

We find it necessary.
We know we will win.
We have confidence in the victory
Of good over evil
Of good over evil

Fight the real enemy!

Sinaed O'Connor [/font

[Kukesa]

16. These photos are haunting. R.I.P. nt

[UpInArms]

19. thanks for such an eloquent post, seemslikeadream

I, too, am waiting for all those (that you quoted) to say:

"I'm sorry"

:weepingformylostcountry:

[0007]

25. Keep showing the photos and never never give up!

What is the chief end of man?--to get rich. In what way?--dishonestly if we can; honestly if we must. Who is God, the one only and true? Money is God. God and Greenbacks and Stock--father, son, and the ghost of same--three persons in one; these are the true and only God, mighty and supreme...
- "The Revised Catechism" 9/27/1871

[Octafish]

15. Dreasky was the soldier Bush hurt in the hospital.

Here's the photo that ran in the Detroit News:



Burns hurt like hell. Getting touched on one hurts more.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=364&topic_id=1539560

Look at Bush smile.

PSYCHOTIC
SATANIC
SOLIPSIST

[saigon68]

22. THAT'S THE CHIMP IN CHIEF IN THE MASK

Wonder if he will go to the funeral?

I DOUBT IT.

[HughBeaumont]

17. I'm disgusted with two "d"s.

This abomination needs to end. NOW. My freeper friend just joined the National Guard. He's going to end up just like this man.

Condolences to all of the families of the fallen and hope that there will be a leader to see how wrong this mess is. Lord knows we don't have one of those now.

[IndianaGreen]

21. Once again, how many Dems voted against Kerry-Feingold Iraq resolution

to get all the troops out by the middle of next year? As long as Democrats fail to bite the bullet in Iraq, as Murtha, Kerry and others have done, we will continue adding more names to the wall of a future Iraq War memorial.

[raccoon]

18. Yall remember about a week ago, somebody posted that s/he

was talking to a soldier recently returned from Iraq, and the soldier said the number was way more than 2500, it was about 4000.

Here's the link
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=132&topic_id=2711330


And yes, it's disgusting this man died that way because of the Junta's lies and arrogance.

[seemslikeadream]

23. THOSE THAT CRIPPLED AMERICA'S POSITION IN THE WORLD

WILL NOT BE FORGOTTEN

BUT THE WIND OF JAH WILL SCATTER THEM AWAY


http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x1600797

Washington is unraveling.
"What these revelations provide is a window into Babylon or the last stages of Rome," explains a source with knowledge of the multiple ongoing investigations.



BANDULU: bandit, criminal, one living by guile
BANDULU BIZNESS is a racket, a swindle



Wires and Watchtowers

How can the wicked smile while the world is burning
How can they turn their eyes and walk away
How can the blue bloods hide, while brothers killing brothers
Why do they divide I and I for diamonds and gold

The dreams of children they float to the sky
And wires and watchtowers can’t bring their demise
Tell me why oh why are we so blind
The treasures of love lay buried inside
Tell me why oh why do we deny
The chains of Babylon are all in our mind

The murderers clouds can’t keep the sun from shining
The wind of Jah will scatter them away
The murderers clouds can’t keep the sun from shining
Jah will scatter he who has no shame

The dreams of children they float to the sky
And wires and watchtowers can’t bring their demise
Tell me why oh why are we so blind
The treasures of love lay buried inside
Tell me why oh why do we deny
The chains of Babylon are all in our mind

Tell me why oh why are we so blind
The treasures of love lay buried inside
Tell me why oh why do we deny
The chains of Babylon are all in our mind

Thievery Corporation

[saigon68]

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