Stars and Stripes LTTE: Troops want to go home

[babylonsister]

Troops want to go home

Nothing is more true than the American soldier is ready to come home from Iraq and not have to worry about returning to this war-torn country.

As much as the American people are fighting for us to come home, it is hurting us in the combat zone. Congress passed a bill to send to the president that he vetoed.

It is a good strategy to try to incorporate our funding with an approval to bring us home, but it is no use to try, because of the promises the president has made. The president said over and over he would veto any bill that has anything to do with the American soldiers coming home.

Why doesn’t he realize that he is hurting us in Iraq? The American people want us home so we can shed no more blood on foreign soil. Granted, it is a part of combat, but what really is our purpose in Iraq? We were sent here to rid this country of “weapons of mass destruction,” but have only found “mass weapons of destruction.”

We are dealing with insurgents on a daily basis in Iraq, but why isn’t our president willing to deal with us (the American soldier)? Our government needs to unite and stop fighting each other about bringing the soldiers home. For every day they argue, more soldiers are being killed, and for what reason? Because one person has control over the Iraq situation and no one is willing to confront him.

As for our government and our chain of command, people need to know that the soldiers don’t want time off, more money or to go to war with anyone else. We want to come home for good.

Let countries fight their own battles like they are in Somalia, and stop trying to rule the whole world.

Staff Sgt. Roy Bell
Rustamiyah, Iraq

[wakeme2008]

1. Little birds in the Pentagon are saying

the 12 then 15 month tours will now be 18 months.

:grr:

[MADem]

4. I have heard that rumor, but it's not ready for roll-out now. I'm thinking

the SECDEF (who is starting to get very PISSED...remember, he's a "Friend of Poppy" not a friend of the Monkey) might not go along with that without a bit of major griping.

[Kerrytravelers]

2. Good for this soldier. It's a shame that 28% of this country won't listen and support the troops.

[MADem]

3. Of COURSE they do....and even more so now. It's hot as a baaastid over there, and gonna get hotter.

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

5. I salute you, Staff Sgt. Bell

May you come home, alive and well and whole ASAP. If I had my way, you'd have come home yesterday--no, you would never have gone at all.

[zbdent]

6. I think that those soldiers who want to stay in Iraq

might just scare me more ... that they're enjoying their job a bit too much ...

[Windy]

7. What?

come on...

You never served did you.

They are under enormous pressure over there to tow the line. What makes you think that any of them really enjoy what they are forced to do?

If they are fighting, they do so for each other and not for Bush or his policies.

As one who was in the military and wants our troops out of that hell hole, I find your comment offensive.

[karlrschneider]

8. Some of them sure did appear to be enjoying Abu Ghraib.

But I don't think the poster you're replying to was broad-brushing the troops. (And it's toe the line)
;-)

[zbdent]

9. No, I never served ... and I am not a supporter of th war, either

so I'm not a chickenhawk ...

But what I was referring to was those who wanted to stay, not for the sake of their comrades, but for the sake of getting to blast "the brown people" indiscriminately ... THOSE ARE THE ONES I AM AFRAID OF ...