Hey Mush-Mouth Murthaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!!!!! What's that you were saying about morale being non-existant???? hmmmmmmm?????
And we have independent verification:
Price: Troops' Morale In Iraq Is High
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1628408/posts
"My job was to try to cheer the soldiers up. But in most cases, they didn't need it.
It was an amazing experience. I went to Iraq looking to raise morale. But in the end, it was the soldiers who had done that for me."
Price observed to a Pfc. Meyer, "A lot of folks would say this is awful. You folks have to be here for so long. Is it hard?"
"It's hard being away from your family," Meyer admitted, "but we have a really tight group, and every day I wake up smiling. I'm happy to be here doing what we're doing. I really am; really excited about being here."
In base after base, Price said, most troops had a clear sense of mission.
Sgt. Mark Massey, an Army vehicle commander, is on his third tour. "They don't really hate us as much as we think they do," he told Price. "That's something I'm proud of, that I volunteered to train these Iraqis, because I got to see the culture and I got to see how these real people operate not what you see on TV."
This is why it is important that those of us not in uniform at this time continue to expose fraudulent cowards like Jesse Adam MacBeth Al-Zaid, Asst. French Fry guy at Wendy's and disgraced, former member of Iraq "Veterans" Against da War.
But of course we know that the real reason is that this economy is so bad that there's really nothing for them in the civilian world and they're all from society's lower strata anyway.
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At the press conference yesterday that geeky looking dweeb (I can't remember his name or station) got up and made a speech before he asked Blair and Bush a question, and he said that he was just over in Iraq and the troops he spoke to wanted out and didn't have good morale. What a sickening disgrace that guy was...
Thanks for posting this. God bless them all for their courage, strength, and determination to protect our freedoms.
I hang out on the political forum at a NY Jets site battling liberals daily- today, unbeknownst to us, a poster who served in Iraq posted the following:
"Let me do a little Paul Harvey for you.
I read that article you mentioned in the Stars and Stripe while I was deployed in Iraq. I have been there 7.5 months. I am currently on my EML back home and enjoying our great country. Never lose sight of that.
The military has always offered financial incentives to enlist or re-enlist depending on your specialty or location you might be in. This was true in 1988 when I joined and is true today. It is a necessity to keep people in as the gap between military pay and pay in the civilian sector widened.
As for the article, that should be taken with a grain of salt. It has about as much validity as going to Fenway and asking people do you like the Sox and hate the Yankees. It is a no brainer. No one wants to be here. However it is our job. (he is referring to the poll from Stars and Stripes which stated a majority of military people in Iraq think America should withdraw in the next 12 months)
The IA battalion I work with is in charge of the sector I am in. Are they as good as the US? No, but they are getting the job done. When the secretarian violence resulting from the mosque bombing plagued Iraq, our whole sector, which is divided by a line that delineates Sunni and Shia, had a relatively peaceful time. The mosques around my patrol base were not preaching American Jihad, but for peace. By an large the Iraqis want peace and they are slowly getting there.
For what it is worth, I have sat on Traffic Control Points and a vast majority of the people that go through will wave to you and have a freindly smile. Of course, none of this is seen in the media. Not the numerous tips we receive turning in "alibaba" from local nationals. The fine work our IA Battalion. One mission were they swooped and bagged 10 insurgents. A mission executed flawlessly without US assistance or prescence. While at the same time they were executing another mission seemlessly. That the sector I am in has seen roadside bombs and insurgent activity drastically reduced. The insurgents no longer have an open corridor from the SW into Baghdad. Why is this not in the news? It does not serve the media's agenda. Plain and simple.
Apparently, unlike the poll respondents, I can see the big picture. We need to be there. We are getting the job done despite media assertions. When I take my last swig of Chai Tea and wish a fond adieu to the Iraqi unit I am with, I will know I was a part of something great. Now, why wasn't that question asked?"
http://www.jetsinsider.net/forums/showthread.php?t=118071&page=4&pp=20
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