'I'm all right, GI said, 'but I lost my left hand'

[in_cog_ni_to]

<snip>"We have so much time in which we do nothing," Green said, "and you stand outside, or, for me, sometimes sitting in the turret of a tank with your head exposed, and you're just waiting for something bad to happen."
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Then she heard a burst of fire. Then there was a second blast, and a rocket from a homemade missile launcher in an apartment building next to the police station hit a water tank on the roof where she was standing guard. The explosion ripped into her.<snip>

I thought we were going for humanitarian reasons, like building things up and cleaning the neighborhoods up - it's filthy over there," she said. "But we hardly did any of it. We spent a lot of time just doing nothing."
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"Looking back, I personally don't think we should have gone into Iraq," she added. "Not the way things have turned out. A lot more people are going to get hurt, and for what?"
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http://www.iht.com/articles/523313.html

To read the entire article you have to click on the print at the end of the srticle and it will go to page 2.

The media will spend all weekend talking about D-Day and the next 2 weeks talking about Ronnie Reagan when they ignore THIS! THIS is happening NOW. THIS is what should be on the TV news. Soldiers are speaking out. :grr:

[Ripley]

1. "It's filthy over there."

Where are these soldiers coming from? Did they only watch the sparkly clean WWII movies with John Wayne? They should have at least seen Full Metal Jacket before they went over there.

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

2. I think of all those people

who are maimed for life, and wonder if they ever weigh on Bush and Cheney's conscience....

[in_cog_ni_to]

3. wonder if they ever weigh on Bush and Cheney's conscience

Not possible....they have no conscience.

[diamond14]

4. PHOTO....lost his leg.....

Sgt. Luis Rodriguez, left, of San Juan, Puerto Rico., who lost his right leg in Mosul, Iraq , in November 2003, shows off his prosthetic leg to Sgt. Jeremy Gilbert, right, of Flippin, Ark., and Dave Roever, center, during a retreat for wounded soldiers of the 101st Airborne in Nashville, Tenn., Saturday, June 5, 2004. Roever, the guest speaker for the retreat, was wounded in the Vietnam War and Gilbert was wounded in Kuwait in March 2003. (AP Photo/John Russell)

[in_cog_ni_to]

5. How sad.

Do we have a count of how many American soldiers have been maimed in this invasion?