On Sat, May 23, 2009 at 8:24 AM, Bruce Sorge <[email protected]> wrote: > > Whatever. I used to have some empathy for these people, but no more. I > hate every one of these sub-human pieces of shit. All they do is sit > around waiting to see how many of us are going to get shot or killed, > and when they are not doing that they are busy breeding like flies. We > need to just leave this place and let them fight it out for themselves. > We did our part, we got rid of their dictator Saddam. They have a > democratically elected government. Let them figure out how to make it > work just as we did back in the day. There is nothing else for us to do > here but drive and walk around and wait for our day to be killed or > wounded. A couple of weeks ago we had a 100 lb claymore go off. By some > miracle, guys who were no more than 10 feet away from it survived with > nothing more than a concussion. When we asked some Iraqi Police who were > obviously using their cell phones on a rooftop the moment of the > explosion, all they could say is they did not hear anything (they were > no more than 75 meters away from the blast) and that they were asleep, > even though our guys on the ground had eyes on them seeing that they > were awake. When we took their cell phone away from the guy who was busy > erasing the numbers he called, we were told to give it back to him > because we are not allowed to harass the police here. Fuck them. They > know exactly what is going on. They were probably the trigger man for > all we know. This is what happens when you have reporters who get to > follow us around and then politicians who decry our tactics and tell us > we have to play nice. Tell you what, let these bastards don some body > armor and walk around here getting blown up and shot at and then tell > them they cannot do anything because we have to play nice with these > animals. I think that they might have a change of heart.
Hey, sounds like a fine argument for not having gone in there under false pretenses and doing our damndest to get out of a bad situation now. Which is what I, and people you tend to be very dismissive of, have been arguing for, oh, 6 or 7 years now. > And yes, go ahead and whine to your congressman about me. See if I care? > Nothing will come of it. They will not kick me out. Worst case scenario > is I get to talk to the head shrinker's here and get some feel good > pills to make me not feel so angry, then send me back into the war. > Either way I do not care, I still get paid the same and I still get to > go home in two months to get married and live a happy peaceful life > with my new wife. I will carry a gun for the next seven or eight years > until I retire and move OUT of the USA. And I will be deployed again, a > few more times. Yeah, I know. Go Army, eh? Sounds like a brilliant way to have people out there supposedly trying to win the "hearts and minds" battle. Honestly Bruce, I don't blame you. You're in a fucked up situation. But it isn't helping anyone. Not you, not America, not Iraq, not the nebulous cause of "democracy and freedom". Get out of there as fast as you can, go find that happy peaceful Bruce and enjoy your life man. In the meantime, try to keep your head down and remember that everyone out there is a human being. Hard to have perspective, I know, and I'm not saying that I'd do better given the situation. Just keep your soul intact the best you can. Juda ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Want to reach the ColdFusion community with something they want? Let them know on the House of Fusion mailing lists Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:297462 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
