> Others - like those this guy has attached himself to -
> get mad at you for not being there or, not shutting up
> and getting with the goddamn program.
<http://www.commondreams.org/headlines06/0603-04.htm>
Published on Saturday, June 3, 2006 by the lndependent/UK For an Exhausted, Disenchanted Army There is Still No End in Sight by David Usborne in New York
As the shock of the allegations of the massacre at Haditha sinks in across America this weekend, one key question is being asked. If the stories of indiscriminate and cold-blooded killings of innocent civilians, from children to a man in a wheelchair, are proven to be true, how could the soldiers have behaved this way? .....
What the soldiers say ... * Growing up I had always heard that the smell of burning human flesh is the worst smell there is. I have since found that to not be true. There is worse. - www.abountifullife.blogspot.com BAGHDAD May 2006
* I find myself scanning farmhouses for snipers and bridges and sides of roads for explosive devices. I am sometimes angered at fellow citizens. I believe I now have understanding as to why some soldiers commit suicide. - www.abountifullife.blogspot.com
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Checking out the above blog reveals this entry coming next: ----- SUPPORT THE TROOPS BUT NOT THE WAR?
You cannot support me and not the war.
If you mail me cookies, send me holiday cards, toilet articles and other niceties then you are supporting somebody who willingly prosecutes the mission he has been given.
You are supporting someone who trains hard, thinks about, and works to be better at fighting war.
This is my profession. This is what I am passionate about.
You cannot support me and not the war. I am the war. ------
Maybe withdrawal isn't such a hot idea if means you might wind up in a long, Saturday afternoon supermarket checkout line with this fellow.
-- Andy