The Mighty US GI's: Lied To, Used, and Losing

[RBHam]

More of what they don't want you to know...

http://www.axisoflogic.com/artman/publish/article_14852.shtml

The Mighty US GI's: Lied To, Used, and Losing
By Amer Jubran
Jan 5, 2005, 16:54

excerpt:
Smuggling American GI's is a booming business in Iraq these days. For $1,000 and his/her weapon and uniform, any US soldier can get him or herself out of Iraq through Kurdistan. Last April, a female US soldier was captured by the Kurds, allies of the US, dressed like a Kurdish woman with a face veil, attempting to cross into Turkey.

According to the New York Times, a Pentagon study revealed that one in every six soldiers who served in Iraq requires immediate psychological treatment. Over a million soldiers have served in Iraq and Afghanistan in the last two years. Steven Robinson, a NY Times military expert, believes that the number needing treatment could jump from one to three soldiers in every six. "There is a train loaded with people who need help that will be coming to town for the next thirty five years," said Robinson.

These figures are the worst for the US since the Vietnam War. "Operation Iraqi Freedom" was supposed to be short and swift. Soldiers were promised that it would be an easy victory and that they would be home in time for the summer of 2003. Instead, urban fighting like that in the city of Fallujah last November, which provided unlimited possibilities for resistance hideouts, booby-trapped houses, and roads full of roadside bombs, put US soldiers in the position of having to live every single minute of the day in fear of an attack. In addition, seeing Iraqis and not being able to distinguish who is a friend and who is an enemy causes severe anxiety to soldiers. Paul Raykhouve, commander of a Florida National Guard platoon who served in Iraq for ten months, was quoted during CBS Sixty Minutes saying: "The enemy is everywhere, in every street, looking at you from every window, in every alley. One cannot think straight because of nerve-wracking fear."

There'll be hell to pay when these soldiers come home...

[BeHereNow]

1. Hell to pay is the PLAN

The chaos that is coming is DELIBERATE.
Those poor kids.
BHN