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Marine in Iraq: 'It's worse every day'
He knew he'd be going to battle. His father said that's why he'd signed up — to protect his country.
After a few stateside assignments, his unit went to Iraq.
And it is there that the education of Lance Cpl. Jonathan Snyder really began.
His lessons culminated Sunday, when he was quoted in the Washington Post, saying, "Every day you read articles in the states when it's like 'Oh, it's getting better and better.' But when you're here, you know it's worse every day."
In July, his platoon — the 81s, named for the size of its mortar rounds — was deployed to Camp Iskandariyah, in Babil Province, about 30 miles southwest of Baghdad. The fighting there has been fierce, even though it's drowned out by headlines from places like Fallujah, Samarra and Sadr City. Since the Marines entered Babil Province, 102 of their ranks have been wounded. Four have been killed.
Nearly every day, the Marines encounter roadside bombs. Hardly a day passes without their camp coming under rocket or mortar attack.
Every day in the Corps, the saying goes, is a holiday — a holiday in hell.
After a few stateside assignments, his unit went to Iraq.
And it is there that the education of Lance Cpl. Jonathan Snyder really began.
His lessons culminated Sunday, when he was quoted in the Washington Post, saying, "Every day you read articles in the states when it's like 'Oh, it's getting better and better.' But when you're here, you know it's worse every day."
In July, his platoon — the 81s, named for the size of its mortar rounds — was deployed to Camp Iskandariyah, in Babil Province, about 30 miles southwest of Baghdad. The fighting there has been fierce, even though it's drowned out by headlines from places like Fallujah, Samarra and Sadr City. Since the Marines entered Babil Province, 102 of their ranks have been wounded. Four have been killed.
Nearly every day, the Marines encounter roadside bombs. Hardly a day passes without their camp coming under rocket or mortar attack.
Every day in the Corps, the saying goes, is a holiday — a holiday in hell.
When the 81s go out on patrol, the Post quoted the soldiers as saying, they seldom accomplish anything. One Marine told the reporter, "You don't really know who you're fighting." Other Marines said that by the time they respond to an attack, the insurgents have disappeared, and they're left with nobody to fight.
They hear their officers telling them that once they train Iraqi security forces, they'll be able to leave. They think that's nonsense — although you'd be hard pressed to find a Marine who uses that word in lieu of a more descriptive term. The soldiers believe the Iraqis are nowhere near being able to take over for the Marines and may never be. Some of the Iraqi police, in fact, have changed sides and have joined the insurgents.
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They hear their officers telling them that once they train Iraqi security forces, they'll be able to leave. They think that's nonsense — although you'd be hard pressed to find a Marine who uses that word in lieu of a more descriptive term. The soldiers believe the Iraqis are nowhere near being able to take over for the Marines and may never be. Some of the Iraqi police, in fact, have changed sides and have joined the insurgents.
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I'd say more power to the Iraqi resistance, if many of them can get paid by the Americans, and then later take the training & the guns to the resistance to fight off the state-sponsored Terrorists who are illegally occupaying their country!
Iraq's NOT Bush's Vietnam, but the Neo-cons' STALINGRAD!!
Iraq's NOT Bush's Vietnam, but the Neo-cons' STALINGRAD!!
the first canadian divsions contribution to the sceince of warfare is that its whole purpose is to scrap the war machine and its manufactury before the unjust violence begins. when told that to the u.s. military in france in 1917 the u.s. officers responded much as the german, british and french imperialist troops. they said oh we would never do that. it should now not surprise anyone that the pentagon lies and the situation is getting worse for the u.s. fighters because the technology of mass death has gotten worse since the first great one. also the u.s. imperialist military has taken on the world court of the hague, the nuremburg trials, the geneva conventions, the united nations charter and the whole anti-fascist military globally. now the international war crimes tribunal has found george w. bush and administration guilty of war crimes globally. like the song say hes waist deep in the big muddy and the big fool says push on. there is no way the u.s. imperialist system can win this war given its unjust nature. peace equals disarmament.
more power to the iraqi resistance and it's exponent muqtada al-sadr. They're doing nothing but excercising their basic right of freedom, a cause wich is being undermined by loped-out lunatics like abu mussab al-zarqawi, who isn't even iraqi anyway. the mehdi militia doesn't need to defeat the us army, they just have to kill enough of them so they'll chicken out. And maybe, just maybe, the us will finally have learnt they're lesson. peace out
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