Posted by
M*A on Tuesday, February 20, 2007 8:56:15 AM
Soldier's Response to the Coward Caucus in Congress
Comments from my son | February 17, 2007 | JemiansTerror
The following is a post from Free Republic
My son is currently serving in Iraq, at a post north of Baghdad. He
is a gunner with an engineering unit; his main job is watch for bad
guys and blast them. The following are comments he made to some friends
last night. The episode he discusses was Saturday morning. I thought
y'all might be interest in what he had to say about the situation over
there. FWIW, his morale is great. You can see he is committed to the
mission.
The friggin terrorists tried to hurt our
friends today. The attacked some IPs not to far from us, and then when
the armor near us responded to the IPs cries for help and came rushing
over with some serious firepower, they ran like little girls. My unit
saw no action, but we sure heard it. A round flew over us, and so some
of the guys who were working with us who dont go out to much took
cover. The rest of us just laughed. It was funny. We were behind a
hill, and about a kilometer away, so we were pretty safe. A few IPs
[Iraqi Police] got hurt, and so prayers go out to those wounded guys.
They have to live in this country where thier families could be killed
for thier involvement in the Iraqi Police, so I have alot of respect
for them.
It really amazes me how the IPs and Iraqi Army persist even though our politicians doubt them back home.
I've seen them take terrorists, and detain them. I've seen IA tanks
hold the high ground. I dont know why we doubt these guys. They do more
of the heavy stuff than we do. They really are stepping up, and though
they pay the price (I saw them get hit, they took one KIA, and one more
had his guts hanging out) they still fight on. These guys have some
serious beliefs in what they can make their country into. I believe in
them.
This whole thing going on back home is just not right. We should not run and
abandon this country. Saddam needed to be punished. He had ridiculed
the world, and had opressed his people. People say that we have brought
carnage? We have not done nothing compared to Saddam. He was a killer
and did it to his own people. I'm not sorry that we came here, and I'm
sure not going to run out on these people. I'm no person to ever do
that, and I'll stand by these people here.
One of the translators told me some about the former regime. His brother was killed by Saddam.
Every time we talk he says more and more about how much better it is for Iraqis now. The
kids smile and wave when they see us pass by. The people here are
always nice to us as well. It might be because we carry automatic
weapons, but so did Saddam and they sure didnt like him.
