Georgia Soldier Asks for Patience (from protesters)

[sabra]

http://www.11alive.com/news/usnews_article.aspx?storyid=68049

Georgia Soldier Asks for Patience

One of Georgia’s own – U.S. Navy Medic Manuel Arena – is calling on protesters back home to be more patient with the progression of the ongoing, and increasingly bloody, war in Iraq.

Arena is currently serving in Iraq as a dental tech and medic after being deployed about six months ago.

“We're here to do a job, and we're going to get it done. That's what I have to say to those people,” Arena said. “We're all Americans here trying to help, and we're going to get it done no matter what.”

Arena and his family moved to Georgia from Peru about 30 years ago. He told 11Alive Reporter Jennifer Leslie that could return to the United States by as early as September, and he says he can’t wait to see his 4-year-old son, Adrian.

We are fighting for you and your 4 year old son!

[KG]

1. sorry, bro, slap out of patience with useless violence and bloodshed.

[arcane1]

2. the "job" was getting rid of WMD's

and they're all gone!

"Mission Accomplished"

now come home, you poor bastard, before you get killed!!

[libertypirate]

3. He is not the boots on the ground

I have no patience when lies have been told in place of the truth so cuckoo bananas Bush can be a "War President".

[atreides1]

4. "...and we're going to get it done no matter what."

Even if it means killing, abusing, and torturing men, women, and children, even if it means violating the Geneva Conventions.

Well sailor, you don't speak or act for me.

[mmonk]

5. What is the job?

To disarm Hussein? To remove WMD's? To free the Iraqi people? To spread democracy? To stop the imaginary Hussein/Al Queda link? What is the noble mission?

[Javaman]

6. Okay, no problem, one question, what is your job?

Moron* has never clearly stated what it was, so maybe you can fill us in?

colossal failure*

[dogday]

Well let's pray he doesn't return

home like Casey Sheehan did.... The last trip he ever took...

[uppityperson]

7. Thank you Mr. Arena, 1 question though, what is "the job"? nt

[Ravenseye]

8. Come on!

He's a dental hygenist. How many streets is he patroling? How much front line action has he seen? If the reaction to me saying that is 'hey it's still dangerous for him over there" then I ask..."how much progress have we made in the YEARS since we've been there that a dental hygenist is in danger?

“We're here to do a job," - What job?

"and we're going to get it done." - How?

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It's typical stuff. I'm not trying to diss the people in the military but lets be honest. We went over there because Bush said that Saddam Hussein was building atomic bombs to give to Al Qaeda who would use them on us. That's why we went.

No WMD. No connections with Al Qaeda.

Job's done. No matter what the place is going to either a)fall into civil war or b)become an islamic state that is a puppet to Iran.

Nice job. I guess someone has to do it.

[mmonk]

9. It's not "why" we went

it was the lie used to get us there.

[BurtWorm]

10. Patience is not really to the point.

I wonder how this can be explained to Arena, or to others in Iraq who don't get the protest, that it's not about how long the alleged mission is but about the legitimacy of the mission in the first place, that it's not about how the people in the service are doing their jobs but about the process that resulted in their even being in Iraq.

[flyarm]

11. what he doesn't say is...

we are building 14 bases in iraq and it will never be done as long as oil is under iraq..and another thing he doesn't say is how many women and children of iraq we have murderered..they will have Patience
to become terrorists and get us back!
and what he doesn't say is how many of our wounded , are wounded for life..and they will have to have the care of the very patient for a lifetime!

what this dental tech doesn't say is the water the iraqi's are drinking still with feces in it , is going to rot the teeth for the children of iraq..and all of their internal organs..for a lifetime..with Patience generations will see what we have done to these people!


but what he doesn't say, more than anything..is that the iraqi people will be getting cancer for centuries and will require a fortitude of Patience
for those who care for their dying for ...lifetimes... from the depleted uranium we have deposited on their land..

so when this fella goes home in sept , i hope he realizes that the people of iraq will be stuck with us for a very long time..and those who lost family from our bombs will have the Patience
to wait until they can get back at us..people do have long memories..even if they are patient!

and our soldiers who lost lives , their families have a lifetime of Patience ......
to mourn the loss of vital young men and women..but Patience
has a
price tag..

and when the next generation of the soldiers who do come home in one piece..begin families..i pray their offspring do not have disabilites that are documented from the depleted uranium their government spread in the soil they slept in and the air they breathed in iraq...see the dispicable results of what our government does in our name has Patience


to show up!!