"get us out of this country" says soldiers in Iraq

[Mari333]

Only minutes earlier the three young GIs had set off from near their base, taking me to join a patrol from their company, fresh from America. Soon they were hurtling along the highway towards Baghdad - in completely the wrong direction.

Told of their mistake, they attempted a high-speed U-turn, apparently oblivious of the car following close behind. Miraculously, the Humvee passengers escaped with only cuts and bruises, but those in the following vehicle were not so lucky: an American contractor from Halliburton appeared to have a broken leg.

The dazed young GIs, barely out of their teens, had only been in Iraq for a fortnight. They were without their flak jackets and there was panic in their eyes.

A passing convoy of soldiers from an engineering unit, grizzled and weary veterans after a year in the country, stopped to help. "I've gotta get out of this country," one engineer said, shaking his head at the sight of the damaged Humvee.







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