Thursday, May 31, 2007

Support The Troops

McClatchy Washington Bureau, on Joe Lieberman's (R. Conn) visit to Iraq. (if you thought Dukakis looked funny in a helmet....)
Spc. David Williams, 22, of Boston, Mass., had two note cards in his pocket Wednesday afternoon as he waited for Sen. Joseph Lieberman. ....
The night before, 30 other soldiers crowded around him with questions for the senator.

He wrote them all down. At the top of his note card was the question he got from nearly every one of his fellow soldiers:

"When are we going to get out of here?"

Next to him, Spc. Will Hedin, 21, of Chester, Conn., thought about what he was going to say.

"We're not making any progress," Hedin said, as he recalled a comrade who was shot by a sniper last week. "It just seems like we drive around and wait to get shot at."

But as he waited two chairs down from where Lieberman would sit, Hedin said he'd never voice his true feelings to the senator.

"I think I'd be a private if I did," he joked. "It's just more troops, more targets."

1 Comments:

Anonymous The Cubelodyte said...

It's always darkly amusing when such apologists for this bungled war show up wearing body armor in the middle of a mass of infantrymen to tour some tiny scrap of Iraq, then go home to declare that things are improving.

1:50 PM  

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