Soldier In Iraq Disgusted By Turkey Photo Op

[K8-EEE]

This is from Stars and Stripes:

Thanksgiving visit

So the boss came to visit us on Thanksgiving, under wraps and under the American flag. Thanks for coming. Oh thank you, kind leader, merciful leader, for taking one day out of your busy schedule to visit us. The shepherd looking over his flock. Thanks for making the sacrifice. God knows we’re making one. Re-election is coming up, but that had nothing to do with it, now did it?

I remember your victorious landing on the ship. Oh how all those then alive, and now dead, would love to sit down next to you, cutting their families’ turkeys and filling the empty seats at the tables. Leader of the free world, be our guest at the head of our table. Or would you like to sit in one of the many empty seats left by the war? There’s plenty of room. Enough turkey and stuffing to go around. Fat and happy, delirious and exhausted. That’s how I feel.

In a hurry? Going so soon? Have time for questions? You sure do have time for compliments. Do you ever feel responsible? I’m tired of this. Go back home to the ranch and tell them how happy and fulfilling the trip made you feel.

Spc. Damian Torres
Iraq

[bluestateguy]

1. Can we have a link?

Or any other information.

That "liberal" Stars and Stripes strikes again.

[Jack_Dawson]

2. Ouch!

Nice work, Mr. Torres.

[OneTwentyoNine]

3. Hard to believe without a link....n/t

[mahatmakanejeeves]

9. the link

http://www.starsandstripes.net/article.asp?section=125&article=19144

Used his real name? Seems unlikely, doesn't it.

[in_cog_ni_to]

4. Uh Oh!

He signed his name! He's probably in the brig as we speak (type). :( I hope he doesn't get in trouble for that. You know how this administration doesn't like anyone to say anything bad about the fuhrer.

[yankeedem]

5. Link

http://www.estripes.com/article.asp?section=125&article=19144

[Kremer]

6. This guy will be sorry he signed his name!

Most letters I read on Stars& Stripes from Iraq don't have names attached to them b/c they know they'll get the wrath of Bushco. Remember when ABC interviewed those soldiers in Iraq and one girl said if rumsfield were here she'd ask for his resignation. They were all punished and threatened w/ court martial. I guess this guy will be deemed and "enemy combantant" and sent to Guantanamo Bay asap! You know they will discipline him somehow!!!!!

[ecstatic]

7. Maybe another guy set him up?

Or maybe he feels that jail time would be better than staying in Iraq?

[HawkerHurricane]

8. If he had any smarts

He signed the name of his boss, who loves the Shrub.

[americanstranger]

12. Or he's looking for a ticket home.

Could this be the Bush era equivalent of a 'hunting accident?'

If he gets discharged for this letter, expect to see a lot of them in the future.

-as

[Bozola]

10. There is a brave man.

[cliss]

11. Pretty ridiculous, isn't it?

A smiling Bush walks around in an army jacket, proudly holding a Thanksgiving turkey with all the trimming.

Problem is, that's not a real turkey. It's a plastic one, and the lettuce around it was probably plastic too.

Like the kind the little girls in kindergarten love to play with, as they set up the dinner table with their dolls and feed them dinner.

[Insider]

13. and another brave soul

--snip--
Pacific edition

West went too far

I’ve read about the plight of Army Lt. Col. Allen B. West. I’ve also read with much disgust and revulsion the thinking of some individuals who support him.

Everyone shouts, “This is war.” Sorry, folks. This is not war. While I support the efforts of those involved in Iraq, readers must remember that no declaration of war exists and never has. Who are we at war with? There is no Iraqi army. Terrorists? Who are they, and where are they?
--snip--

more at same link:
http://www.estripes.com/article.asp?section=125&article=19144

(scroll down from other letter)

a little freedom of speech going on...