It is all so sad. Our American government always has good intentions that get lost in the mud of war. I spent close to 3 years in Laos and Nam in the 1970s during the war years. I witnessed the same events as we have experienced in Iraq. Some things never change and we never learn from out own history. 50,000 American lives lost in Nam. Now we are trading partners and it's all hug and kisses. In Iraq, we attempted the same deal of forcing democracy into a country that was not ready. Democracy comes from withing not from external sources. So we have lost over 5000 fine young men in Iraq whose voices we can listen to and feel the horrors. But we go back to our TVs as usual and let the government continue its' misguided policies of saving the world at great cost to we Americans. It only becomes a reality when someone in the family is blown to pieces by some terrorist in a foreign land. Keep our boys home to protect our land. Keep our boys home to protect our families. There is very little we can do when fighting in the terrorist own backyards. Too many to deal with and ultimately our Military will take the brunt of our governments misguided policies on how to wage a current day war against terrorists. Israel seems to be the only country to get it right. Eye for an Eye!!!
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And today was a brutal day across Baghdad. I responded 5 minutes after a suicide bomber drove a bomb into a National Police checkpoint. Blew it to smithereens. Severely wounded about a dozen, and half of them surely died later. They were a mess. Killed one outright. As we were securing the area and treating those still alive, we took small arms fire. ... Anyway, after all that, I imagine you rooting around and I can smile again.
Taylor, 37, was killed by an IED in Baghdad on Oct. 22.
Mundell
Oct. 20, Fallujah
This is the sort of thing that goes on here. A couple weeks ago, Major Mouhammed, commander of headquarters company, got kidnapped in Baghdad while he was on leave. They let him go the next day. Two days ago, the [Iraqi] battalion doctor was murdered there and Maj. Lathe, 1st Company commander, was badly wounded when he went to identify the body. My guy, Captain Achmed, is late coming back from leave because he was threatened and had to move his family. Nice place, isn't it?
Foyteck
Oct. 21, Baghdad
[in] Mosul we were being at-tacked every day. Out here we are not the targets. It's one religion against an-other, we are just caught in the middle. However, if we are in the way, they will attempt to get rid of us as well. The problem here is they [the officers in charge] are limiting what we are "allowed" to do. ... If we get shot at, they want us to run. I mean, what kind of job does that mean we are doing? We take away bombs from people but we are not allowed to arrest them. Doesn't make much sense.
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