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I thought I would share the thoughts of a coworker of mine... we were discussing this last night at work and I was surprised at first at the absolue rage he was feeling. But as I think about it, he makes perfect sense to me.
When I asked him what he though of the pictures being shown on tv, he got visibly angered and said as much as he hated to see it, Iraqies need to see we are dealing with this. He has been out of the Marines for 6 years and feels this has not only blemished the already poor view of Americans in Fallujah but has set us back to maybe even before the beginning of the war. Remember the whole center of the action was to gain the "hearts and minds" of the people. Yea, this blew any advances we made there right out of the fucking water. He went on to explane that if we really think the insurgents are going to give up now, we're sadly mistaken... Gee, I'm an Iraq Soldier thats been out of work for a year... I can fight to the death in the streets... or I surrender and get humiliated, urinated on,pictures of my naked body get put on world tv... maybe I get tortured and die anyway... Nah... I'll take my chances in the streets...
His final thoughts on the subject were that as much as he misses the high of combat, He's pretty sure he would get court marshalled for beating the fuck out of any Army MP he came across... As a front line Soldier in any branch, but specifically the US Marines that are face to face with Iraqi's on a daily basis, Their job just got a whole lot harder...
JUst thought someone might like to see a different angle on this.
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