Iraqi "allies" turn on American soldiers

[ironglow]

   Dee;

   Thank your son for his service..from me and mine... And the 82nd..a great and proud unit he serves with..
 
  My Grandson, a Special operations Marine returned from Al Anbar just last May..he will be returning within a month or two.

   All these guys ask is for us to please..SUPPORT THEM IN THEIR MISSION...they will do the fighting..while we have the easy part..

     ...And some of us can't even do that !

   Yes, the terrorists are mostly imported from/through Iran & Syria  The Marines are killing them off along the Euphrates & Tigris valleys...while the Army, in units like the 3rd div, 101st and 82nd among many others...are killing them if they reach the general Baghdad area..
 
     Most of the troops I have talked to say they would rather kill them there than to have to do it back here !

   May God Bless all our troops ...it is just too bad that we civilians ( has little to do with CIVIL..LOL) , cannot pull together despite differences, as the troops do.

         Maybe they are more intellectually honest than the rest of us !

[prairiedog555]

I was watching TV and listened to a speach by Bill Richardson, running for Dem Pres.  He made a good point.  Our mission in Iraq is essentially over.  we won.  We removed a dictator, (who probabally would have been a good ally against Iran, the real enemy) the Iraqis have had 2 elections, they have a constitution, it is their time to solve their problems.  The US armed forces were not created to be policemen.  He says we should pull back, strictly enforce border security from Iran and Syria and concentrate on Afganistan and other terrorist threats.  Right now the only thing that the Iraqis can agree upon is they hate the US.  So piss on them, let them solve their own problems without outside interference.
What do we owe them, whatever it was the debt has been paid.  they have the ball now.

[Dee]

Well ironglow, I am not getting the same feedback you are. I have a very good friend that has a son (Marine sniper) who is getting out after FOUR tours to Iraq. He did not want to go back the last time, doesn't believe it is winable in its present format.
My son's unit is fighting house to house in Baghdad at the present, and say the Iraqi troops can't even get along with each other, AND CANNOT BE TRUSTED. He also believes it is probably not going to work. He has been to Afganistan once and has a totally different opinion about that situation. This is his second trip back to Baghdad, and he only got a 4 or 5 day break in the states. He did not want to go this time because of the Iraqi attitude.
He knows that I support him and the rest of the troops, but to do so I don't have to agree with a bunch of jackass politicians, or people that support a cause I don't agree with. I will not follow blindly what I consider was a lie from the beginning. There is not one schred of evidence that would indicate Iraq was involved in 911, or any other terrorists attack against the U.S. and even Bush admits it was bad intel. The fight em in Iraq instead of here is hog wash propaganda, that has long since been dismissed by the paying attention consious American.
As we speak the Iraqi Priminister has stated publicly that the U.S. and Iran will not be allowed to settle their differences in Iraq, by fighting it out in Iraq. Seems to me you need to write him a letter. I for one agree with prairiedog555. Besides history has proven over and over, that revolution for change comes from within a country, and cannot be successfully imported from the white house.JM2CW