Posted on 02/17/2007 1:33:38 PM PST by Jemian
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.
JemiansTerror we got your back! You have our TOTAL support don't let anyone tell you otherwise! Thank you for your service to our Country my family and I salute you sir!!
PING to your brave son. God bless him and keep him safe.
On the other side our lying elected theives in the sewer called Washington stab them in the back while being safe and sound and wasting the tax payers money advancing the terroist cause.
He doesn't think much of cowards or traitors.
Duty and Honor keep our guys going.
Beliefs and traits whose presence barely exist within the halls of the United States Congress.
They, like their dopplegangers who held office during the Vietnam years, are pathetic little men and women whose only thoughts are about power and fame.
America, bless GOD!!
Thanks for the ping this deserves a big bump to the top.
"Wisconsin Conservative Politics" Ping.
Your son is smarter than those who think they represent the majority of us! A big thank you to your son for taking care of me! We all owe him our sincere gratitude! My prayers are with him! You should be proud that you raised this great young man!
Jemian...God bless you and your son and keep him safe.
What a beautiful letter! May God Bless JT!
Amen! That's exactly what we need right now.
And Jemian is right, what's going on at home isn't right. And if the "Coward Caucus" (like that) prevails, and we need to turn to the military a decade from now, they'll be there.
Video Shows American Soldiers ABUSING Iraqi Children.. ** DO NOT RELEASE TO MEDIA **
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1732813/posts
May your son have a guardian angel at his side, thank you for sharing this with us. Its so tragic we must endure our misguded political circus to try and make us believe in their fruitless penny anti charades to support their power base.
God bless you and your brave son. If I were a young man again I'd be honored to stand by his side. Thank you for raising such a fine example of a man.
Bump!
They need to listen to the voice of the enemy to understand how they perceive us.
ABC reporter John Miller's interview with Osama Bin Laden, May 1998:
Miller: Describe the situation when your men took down the American forces in Somalia.
Bin Laden: After our victory in Afghanistan and the defeat of the oppressors who had killed millions of Muslims, the legend about the invincibility of the superpowers vanished. Our boys no longer viewed America as a superpower. So, when they left Afghanistan, they went to Somalia and prepared themselves carefully for a long war. They had thought that the Americans were like the Russians, so they trained and prepared. They were stunned when they discovered how low was the morale of the American soldier. America had entered with 30,000 soldiers in addition to thousands of soldiers from different countries in the world. ...
As I said, our boys were shocked by the low morale of the American soldier and they realized that the American soldier was just a paper tiger. He was unable to endure the strikes that were dealt to his army, so he fled, and America had to stop all its bragging and all that noise it was making in the press after the Gulf War in which it destroyed the infrastructure and the milk and dairy industry that was vital for the infants and the children and the civilians and blew up dams which were necessary for the crops people grew to feed their families. Proud of this destruction, America assumed the titles of world leader and master of the new world order. After a few blows, it forgot all about those titles and rushed out of Somalia in shame and disgrace, dragging the bodies of its soldiers. America stopped calling itself world leader and master of the new world order, and its politicians realized that those titles were too big for them and that they were unworthy of them. I was in Sudan when this happened. I was very happy to learn of that great defeat that America suffered, so was every Muslim. ...
Full intervew:
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/binladen/who/interview.html
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