December
It's getting harder and harder to write. The days are just blurring into one another as mission after mission come and go. We are so close to being out of here and yet we don't know when we are leaving. It is getting some of the guys down not knowing when our plane home will take off.
We keep reading in the news how we are loosing. Senators tell us we are broken and worn out. They say we have not made any progress.
What the hell do they know. They've been losing the war since we've started fighting back against the islamists. All they care about is making the US look bad. Now we have a former AG defending Saddam Hussian! WTF? It makes you think that what we need to do is come home and clean out the whole rat's nest in Washington DC.
I went down to Baghdad the other day to check on a couple of my guys who were wounded by a VBIED. We brought one home with minor injuries but the other remained in ICU with injuries to his neck and face. One soldier never made it to the hospital.
All three were Iraqi soldiers fighting to make their country better. If you want to be shallow you can think of it as an Iraqi soldier died so one American soldier could live.
How can those idiots in the senate think we are not making progress? This time last year there were no Iraqi units on the street. Today my entire Brigade is on the ground with T-55s and BMPs patrolling and executing combat missions.
They are totally out of touch with what is going on here.
maybe 35 days left in country...
dutch- out
posted by Dutch @ 1:55 AM
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"How can those idiots in the senate think we are not making progress? This time last year there were no Iraqi units on the street. Today my entire Brigade is on the ground with T-55s and BMPs patrolling and executing combat missions."
Obviously, they have not actually seen what is going on. They probably rely on reports that have trickled down through five different filters so that by the time they read them it is nothing more than pablum. They need to get out of their offices and go see what is happening on the ground. I know, not really feasible, but they piss me off. The sad (or should I say frightening?) thing about them is that they probably *do* have a grasp of what is going on in Iraq but for whatever screwed political reason they are manipulating the message. Which means you and your men (US and Iraqi) are glorified pawns with big guns. That is an over generalization, I know, but the disconnect between the reality on the ground and what we hear in the news here is staggering. Thank God for the internet and non-US news sources.
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