A story from beyond the Green Zone

[Another Bill C.]

For your friends who don't think Iraq is another Vietnam (This story appears in our local newspaper whose Web site requires registration. I located another site):

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"... he's had nine confirmed kills and nine wounded.

"'It takes nothing,' he said with a half-grin. 'I don't care about these people.'

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"'The reason why they're fighting us is not Osama bin Laden. They're fighting us because we're here. ... They don't want us here. They just want us to leave. I guess that would be a victory for them,' he said. 'As far as I can see there's not going to be any victory for us.'

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"'In past situations you've had a good guy and a bad guy and the troops were impassioned, but now troops just want to go home,' Sabin said. 'I don't feel like there's a cause. I don't personally think there's a reason for this.'"

http://www.iraqwar.mirror-world.ru/article/65185

[SHRED]

1. The story that needs to be told

Thanks.

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

2. "I don't care about these people"

what happens when he comes home and has a fight with his wife or the folks next door? What happens when he gets road rage? Don't people realize that wars like Iraq create moral monsters?

[SHRED]

3. My daughter's boyfriend just went over

He is a Marine.

His mother told him, "Just go blow up as many as you can and get back home".

Un-frickin' believable!

[Rose Siding]

4. Amazing article- Knight Ridder does such good work

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"The bad guys watch our gates. They know when we're out in sector. They just wait for us to leave and then they plant" the bombs, Hendricks said. "They plant them with impunity."
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"I was up in a guard tower outside the FOB (base) and a group of IP (Iraqi police) came up and offered us hash and whiskey," said Sabin, a 26-year-old sniper from Richmond, Va., who was in a Ranger special operations unit during the 2003 invasion. "That's who's protecting the people."

Hendricks taught a sniper's training course to a select group of Iraqi soldiers, but stuck to marksmanship.

"I haven't taught them tactics because they're infiltrated," Hendricks said. "It's like going to a party where you don't know anybody, but somebody in the room - you don't know who - wants to kill you."

[JoZbean]

5. Here's the Billings Gazette link

The repukes I know will dismiss anything that's not mentioned by MSM or US newspapers. I didn't need to register for this link.

http://www.billingsgazette.com/index.php?id=1&display=rednews/2005/10/02/build/world/45-us-snipers.inc

[JoZbean]

6. They just want to come home.

BRING THEM HOME NOW!

"In past situations you've had a good guy and a bad guy and the troops were impassioned, but now troops just want to go home," Sabin said. "I don't feel like there's a cause. (what NOBLE cause, GWB?) I don't personally think there's a reason for this."