Support our Troops: Remove Them All Together
Election Day has come and passed, Lieberman won, Bush is still in office, whupdeedo, but what do we do about kids as young as our seniors who are putting their lives on the line to “police” a country that clearly wants us out? Sure I agree that now that the Democrats almost officially control the House of Representatives and The Senate we have the potential to change some things around here, but what worries me is ‘will we’? My mom is a teacher and one of her kids has a brother who died in Iraq. I was grading his geography paper (and it wasn’t turning out too well) and called my mother over to help decipher what hyroglyphs he had tried to print. She told me to; ‘go easy on him, he doesn’t have a brother anymore because he was killed in Iraq.’
Many of the stories troops tell in the blogs are about everyday life at their bases. But some also show how terrifying, confusing and chaotic battle can be. Among the most gripping stories told so far: Army Spc. Colby Buzzell’s Aug. 5, 2004, account in his blog My War of a battle in Mosul, Iraq, the day before. “I saw 2 guys creeping around this corner … (and) hiding behind a stack of truck tires,” he wrote. “I saw another guy come out of that corner with an RPG (rocket-propelled grenade) in his hands. I freaked … I gathered my composure as fast as I could, put the cross hairs (of a gun) on them and engaged them. … I didn’t see anybody move from behind those tires after that.”
It kills me to hear that we have people every day in a country we aren’t very familiar or friendly with and are dying trying to help a people that obviously don’t want any. Our soldiers are not trained to police politically unstable nations, so why are we still there? This sounds more like a job for the United Nations, that way perhaps they can help take our troops out. Not only that, but our taxes (as my father has complained about) are going up due to the insane amount of revenue spent on keeping and supplying our guys over there. We keep getting calls for my brother from the Marines, saying they need him to enroll, but both my mom and my dad agree we’d rather move to Canada before let him join to be killed in a foreign country! We need to bring our brothers and sisters home!
