And now a word from someone who made it out of 15 months in Iraq alive. Someone who signed up for the Army Reserve after September 11th. Someone who wasn’t a chickenhawk. Someone who ended up stationed in Abu Ghraib. Someone, unlike the Bush Supporters (as witnessed even here in BRAD BLOG comments) who doesn’t find it necessary to avoid telling the truth about what’s going on there, and how things went so terribly wrong via the incompetence and lack of support for our troops by this failed “Commander-in-Chief”.
Here’s the full article, please read it! It’s short and to the point. Here’s just one, of many quotable excerpts:
After training 2,000 police, and bringing law and order to the city of Al Hilla, my unit was tasked to run Abu Ghraib prison, a mission for which we had no prior training. We were combat support military police, ideal for conducting convoy security, not administering prisoner-of-war camps. My unit was desperately under-manned, so I was assigned to run an entire tier at the ‘hard site’. Even as a junior-enlisted soldier, I was personally responsible for 320 prisoners and a staff of four or five ill-disciplined Iraqi police…
Educate yourself. Read the whole thing.
Support the Troops! Vote Bush out of office!
(Thanks to Alexi for the link!)
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