Radio ad - Operation Truth

[mia]

turn up the sound!

[markbark]

1. Is that Jesse Ventura doing the voiceover? (n/t)

[mia]

2. It sounds like him

What a voice!

[NoBorders]

3. yes, his voice

he was on ed shultz. from the interview, sounded non-partisan, but not so much from that commercial

[mia]

4. Bush hasn't seen or heard combat

so the ad speaks to me about Kerry's strength - he was there.

[mia]

5. Operation Truth: Browse Veteran Profiles

and Read Their Stories


Sitting Here in Iraq
Here is a poem I wrote which describes my feelings about being sent to Iraq. I knew we were sent under false pretenses. I was caught up in the "Stop Loss" as I could have dropped my retirement paperwork the very day I flew to Iraq. WAR IN IRAQ May 23, 2003 SITTING HERE IN IRAQ, WHERE IT IS HOTTER THAN HELL, THE TROOPS MORALE IS DOWN, BECAUSE WE CAN’T RECEIVE OUR MAIL. CAME 5OOO MILES TO WAR, KNOWING THERE WOULD BE DANGER, RIDING THRU IRAQ IN CANVASS TO...


6 months turned into a year +
I joined the Army after 9-11. I believed in the cause for the war in Afganistan and Iraq. I believed in the President of the United States of America and what he had to say about the weapons of mass destuction. I was at Camp Bucca, near the port of Umm-Quasar for 5 in a half months, then Abu-Ghraib prison for another 6 months. My views have changed from being for the war, to realizing that all we are doing is occupying yet ANOTHER country. And, by the way, what has happened to these so called ...


Just let us do our job...
I did an 8 month tour in Afghanistan, and 4 months in Iraq. In both tours I noticed something that still bothers me. Commanders not letting us do our job to the fullest of our ability. I was an assitant team leader for an LLVI (low level voice intercept) team (or SOT-A if you're in the SF world). We work in a 3-4 team and go out like scouts or LRS-D and covertly hide somewhere and monitor the air for any radio signals and have an interpretuer tell us what they're saying, and our equipment would ...