Posted on 04/04/2006 7:06:37 PM PDT by Marli
There wasn't a day I spent in Iraq that I wasn't called into the office. It was perpetual operational mode, sometimes 20 hours a day. My tour as the coordinator of the Hostage Working Group at the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad ended on April 1, and as it happens, that's the day we put journalist Jill Carroll on a military flight to Germany, and back home. I'm relieved beyond measure, because I wouldn't have been able to leave this job without a sense of mission accomplishment if she were still a captive. Seeing Jill's tears of happiness when she stepped out of a car into the arms of her best friend was the only reward I needed for my 21 months here. Most days though have been far less rewarding. There are at least 13 other Americans and many other foreigners still missing in Iraq. We know of numerous who have been killed, and the fate of countless other is still unknown. Yet there are still more, running around Baghdad, even now, just tragedies waiting to happen.
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Good post...He seems to have pointed out the real Iraq for civilians at this time.
Wow! I read the whole article. Excellant!
Hey..to the idiots that want to go to Iraq and feel they are ok....this author is right, they have an X targeted on them. AND it makes more trouble and danger for our troops to go around rescuing them.
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