[Hillarys Gate Cult]

The doodles on the desk at the guardhouse tell it all. "Stuck here forever," an angry sergeant at the sand-blown US Army base outside the desert town of Falluja has scrawled with a felt-tip pen, alongside some scatological sketches.

My God. It's hard to think our soldiers would write such things. We must bring them all home now because of this.

All kidding aside, I don't think I ever went to any base where we didn't see things like this. It's just guys blowing off steam. I admit though that under the sucky tour index, this one would have to be near the top of the list. I was always told when the troops aren't complaining, that's the time for a leader to start worrying.

[rangerwife]

I've always heard my husband say, "If a soldier ain't bitchin', then he ain't happy.". They all complain in some way. But what surprises me most is these guys complaining publicly to the press and saying bad things about the president or Rumsfeld. Yeah, soldiers complain all the time, but they usually do it amongst themselves. Anyways, these articles are really disgusting my husband. If he was told that he's going to Iraq tomorrow, he would gladly go and trade places with these NCOs in a heart beat.