Soldier interviewed on "60 Minutes"

[Hissyspit]

The soldier with an Iraq-theatre brain injury when asked if we should be in Iraq:
He hesitated - a LOT - then said something to the effect of: "We should be in Iraq... because the president has made that decision we should be there"

That's the best he could come up with. His hesitations and what he did NOT say speak VOLUMES.

[babylonsister]

1. I do think his hesitations had a lot to do with his brain injury.

I wish his wife had been asked that question.

[Hissyspit]

3. It didn't seem that way to me.

But yes, it would have been useful if they'd asked his wife.

[Kierkegaard]

2. Most of them agreed that we should be there.

Poor brainwashed masses...

[jab105]

4. I think that they want to believe that their sacrifice was worth it...

thats what Bush is counting on...

it sucks, because all it really means is that more will sacrifice for nothing...

[Kierkegaard]

I'm not sure how I would feel if I were in their position.

I know it would be hard to accept that the decision to voluteer to lay your life on the line was based on a total lie.

[Kierkegaard]

5. DUPE/DELETE

[president4aday]

6. Brain injured before he went. The "president" makes his decisions,

because the guy was (and is) incapable of independent thought,

despite ample evidence to the contrary, he's a believer. .... lost to the cult.

[atreides1]

8. Well

As a veteran myself, you might have something there. But, I do believe that some of his hesitation can be attributed to his head injury, and his belief that we should be there because the president
said so, is further proof.

[demosincebirth]

7. If you're in the military, you don't disagree even if you're wounded

[atreides1]

9. Gee

That's funny, I used to do it every chance I got, and I goy away with it. It's not about disagreeing, it's about how you do it!!!

[demosincebirth]

12. Sure, you can disagree among your buddies,

but don't try to do it in the media. You will only do it once.

[Booster]

10. I talked to a guy the other night who just got back from Iraq. I told

him my nephew said OUR government would not allow contract workers to carry weapons, I said like the contract workers with Halliburton. He looked me straight in the eye and said "what is Halliburton". I almost fell off my chair. I told him he should Google Halliburton/Cheney so at least he would know why he was in Iraq in the first place. By the way, does anyone know whether or not our government will not allow the contractors to carry weapons? I'd like to see them try to stop me.

[Booster]

14. To answer my own question, I asked my other nephew who just

got back from Iraq about this and he says it is true - contractors are not allowed to have weapons and the military uses our soldiers to protect them, which pisses my Marine nephew off because the contract guys are making a lot of money and of course the troups are not.

[Evergreen Emerald]

11. What is the alternative for him?

I cannot imagine risking my life for the lies that Bush and his co-horts told. I cannot imagine the betrayal our soldiers are living with: they depended on their country to send them into harm's way only as a last resort. How can they survive over there if they did not believe they were dying for something?

We owe them more. Murtha is right.

[Hissyspit]

13. Well, they also interviewed another soldier who actively protests the war:

talking to groups; he marched in D.C. in September.