US Sergeant Learns Afghan Lessons

"The most challenging part of the exercise ... for me would be this environment. It's my first time working out in a desert and if you are not physically fit basically, it's really hard."
- Sgt. Steven Checo, Sept 29, 2002, about exercises in Afghanistan

Then, five days before Christmas:
Attackers struck U.S. forces near Afghanistan's mountainous border with Pakistan in two separate assaults. An 82nd Airborne Division paratrooper died in a gunbattle in the eastern town of Shkhin. The Pentagon identified the paratrooper as Sgt. Steven Checo, 22, from New York City.

The lesson for Steven? An inconvenient climate is NOT the most challenging part of war. This is not a fucking vacation. It is you going half way across the world to murder people you don't even understand. And guess what? It will be challenging because they are going to try and fucking kill you.

How many more families will lose their sons and daughters right before Christmas or a birthday so that George Bush and dipshit Dick Cheney can be even more filthy rich?

Learn your lessons before its too late.