Posted on 01/13/2020 10:59:06 AM PST by karpov
MELVILLE, N.Y. — Chris Levi’s fellow soldiers were sure he was dead. The Humvee he commanded in Baghdad had been torn apart by a projectile, and so had his body. When he awoke several minutes later, he followed his training, trying to assess his injuries.
“I tried to wiggle my toes, and I couldn’t move them,” he recalled. Fearing he had been paralyzed, he reached down to feel his lower body. “It’s kind of hard to describe,” he said. “You could feel wet meat, and I knew I lost my legs.”
The device that nearly killed Mr. Levi in 2008 was an improvised bomb called an explosively formed penetrator, or E.F.P. — a weapon that blasted a teardrop-shaped slug of molten copper through the passenger door of his armored Humvee.
Though it was fired by Shiite militia members in Iraq, Mr. Levi has sought for years to hold another party responsible: Iran.
He and dozens of other soldiers injured during the Iraq war, as well as the families of hundreds of dead service members, have pursued justice in federal court. They sued Iran’s government in an effort to prove that the attacks that took their limbs and loved ones were aided by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.
Their fight was little noticed, with limited hope of recovering significant damages despite a ruling last year in their favor. Then another form of justice came this month, when an American missile killed the man they hold most responsible, Maj. Gen. Qassim Suleimani.
His name may not have been well known to most Americans, but the general had long been a focus of anger for many wounded veterans and families of those killed in Iraq.
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President Trump has not, probably wisely for domestic political reasons, said it was one of the motivations for his decision to kill Suleimani but I’m sure PAY BACK and JUSTICE were major. PAY BACK is a good thing when it comes to monsters who kill and maim Americans, IMHO.
And thank you President Trump on behalf of those victims of General Suleimani.
Let’s suppose that gropey joe had been president, and didn’t order the strike on suleiman. The bearded savage would have killed Americans, and touchy-feely joe would have apologized to iran.
Trump, being the Alpha Male, had the dirty-beard jihadi exterminated.
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“He and dozens of other soldiers injured during the Iraq war, as well as the families of hundreds of dead service members, have pursued justice in federal court. They sued Iran’s government in an effort to prove that the attacks that took their limbs and loved ones were aided by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.”
But Obama didn’t feel the need at all to hold back funds from the billions of dollars he released to Iran, when these American soldiers were not compensated for the war crimes and atrocities committed against them.
The inadequately armored Humvee was never intended to operate in an urban combat environment. By 2007 the US Military had acknowledged the problem was not fixable with add on armor kits and was in process of replacing the Humvee with the Mine Resistant Ambush Protected vehicle, or MRAP.
The introduction of MRAPs in late 2007 was successful in reducing the number of deaths of US servicemen from roadside bombs. If SPC Levi was in fact still operating a Humvee in 2008 when he was wounded, it begs the question why?
I was a Red Cross Volunteer on the Amputation Ward at Walter Reed back then.
What Trump did to that scum made me cry... tears of JOY!!
The Iran Swamp Creatures of the USA
https://youtu.be/zCI4hyl113Q
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