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skywalker · 12-20-2003, 05:17 AM

IRAQ "They're just going to keep killing us until we leave"
By Kevin Horrigan
12/14/2003

He got off the plane Monday afternoon - Mosul to Kuwait to Germany to Atlanta to Dallas to St. Louis - two days traveling for 15 days at home. He was wearing a faded desert-tan combat uniform and a battered pair of boots, still covered with the dust of the Iraqi desert.

He slept for most of the next two days, getting up only long enough to eat and wander dazed around the house. "They told us we wouldn't know where we were for a while," he said. "I didn't think it would affect me, but it is."

There is a new wariness. He moves slowly and deliberately, uncertain of once familiar things: a refrigerator, a newspaper, a baby girl. The newspaper says three of his fellow Screaming Eagles were killed in Mosul the day before, two shot dead while guarding a gas station, the third when his Humvee rolled past a roadside bomb. He will be back in Mosul by Christmas. No wonder he is wary.

There's the rest here if your interested.

I think that the effects of this war will have repercussions that will ripple throughout the lives of the soldiers, the people in Iraq and the rest of the world. I doubt that much of it will be good. I guess I'm just being pessimistic.

Mark

[ 12-20-2003, 05:50 AM: Message edited by: skywalker ]

12-20-2003, 05:17 AM	#1
skywalker Banned User Join Date: March 1, 2001 Location: VT, USA Age: 64 Posts: 3,097	IRAQ "They're just going to keep killing us until we leave" By Kevin Horrigan 12/14/2003 He got off the plane Monday afternoon - Mosul to Kuwait to Germany to Atlanta to Dallas to St. Louis - two days traveling for 15 days at home. He was wearing a faded desert-tan combat uniform and a battered pair of boots, still covered with the dust of the Iraqi desert. He slept for most of the next two days, getting up only long enough to eat and wander dazed around the house. "They told us we wouldn't know where we were for a while," he said. "I didn't think it would affect me, but it is." There is a new wariness. He moves slowly and deliberately, uncertain of once familiar things: a refrigerator, a newspaper, a baby girl. The newspaper says three of his fellow Screaming Eagles were killed in Mosul the day before, two shot dead while guarding a gas station, the third when his Humvee rolled past a roadside bomb. He will be back in Mosul by Christmas. No wonder he is wary. There's the rest here if your interested. I think that the effects of this war will have repercussions that will ripple throughout the lives of the soldiers, the people in Iraq and the rest of the world. I doubt that much of it will be good. I guess I'm just being pessimistic. Mark [ 12-20-2003, 05:50 AM: Message edited by: skywalker ]