ya don't have to like it... ya just gotta do it!!! did he really think he would LIKE being in Iraq when he joined???
Posted on 01/15/2008 3:54:16 PM PST by got_moab?
And he’s an INTERPRETER???? I would NOT have him dealing with ANY LOCALS! BEWARE.
Wow, a soldier not happy in a war zone, that has probably never happened before President Bush was CIC.
Soldiers do it even when it sucks, the kid is a soldier.
It’s every soldier’s God given right to gripe. I thought Vietnam sucked. In 1945, my Dad thought the South Pacific sucked. In 1943, my uncle thought Europe, viewed from a B-25, sucked. It’s not a pleasant job, and no one has to pretend it is; it just has to be done. Even when it’s FUBAR.
Dear Jordan.....
You bitch whine and complain all you want while yer in harms way. It’s a GI’s right too do so .......just be careful ya vent too .....just other GI’s and not the public.
Then ya become something I do not condone at all !
Thanks for taking your turn in the barrel Jordan. I didn’t like SEA, SWA, Grenada, Panama, Beirut or Mogadishu etc etc either...bitched like it was the 28th day every day and it did me no good but piss off my team and those around me so I quit when I learned that hard lesson.
Suck it up troop and get even , not mad. If ya want to make it a career ya have to get yer head straight NOW !
Stay Safe !!
this is my feeling too, this reporter has an agenda (you can tell by reading some other recent news stories he penned in the Beacon) and he uses this kid to give that agenda some street cred. I just felt kind of bad reading it, almost like the kid didn’t know what he was getting into (when he gave this interview)..
They use anecdotal snivelers to paint the mission.
IMHO...he got a job with a fat bonus that he thought would keep him safe away form the front lines.
The recruiter probably had some hand in fostering that idea.
The Hussein regime never honored the armistice/surrender agreement.
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What, do you think he's the only guy over there with those opinions? Most likely everyone in his unit feels the same way. They sit around between patrols saying to each other, "God, this place sucks!"
Yeah, I've heard that, that in a war zone there's a good chance someone might shoot at you. Where'd this guy get his training, Miss Prim's Finishing School? WTF indeed.
Yep, if Patton were still around he'd probably slap him, too... /grin
There’s always going to be some, even in an all volunteer Army. The enemedia has a talent for finding them.
Which is why we need to go back to the tried and true system of military control and censorship of the press in a war zone which was imposed and enforced by the Democrat administrations of Franklin D. Roosevelt and Harry S. Truman.
Not a chance in hell I’m trusting a reporter who writes as this one does to give any soldier an honest quotation. This story drips with agenda. IMHO.
Probably one. Try finding guys to say, "I love it over here! This place is awesome!" Good luck with that.
Man, there's a lot of delusional people over here lately.
Blue State Media Blather.
“I don’t blame him for a word he said.”
I do. It was a left-wing political speech based on left-wing nonsense. America didn’t ‘impose’ democracy on Iraq, as he accuses. The Iraqis freely choose democracy, despite death threats from Al Qaeda. The elections exceeded international stadards and they elected a pro-western government.
I’m fine with that.
It wouldn’t surprise me if this guy completely made up the story about even going to Iraq, or even being in the military.
After reading this and noting the agenda of the reporter I wonder how many of the quotes that are attributed to this soldier are accurate? Every time I have been associated with a news story they end up putting words in my mouth that I didn’t say!
ya don't have to like it... ya just gotta do it!!! did he really think he would LIKE being in Iraq when he joined???
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