FROM A PROTESTER:
Our young soldiers are sent to Iraq to dominate the people there in any way that they can, dragging off family members, imprisoning and perhaps even torturing numbers of civilians. Bush is a traitor for asking American young people to participate in these atrocities which will haunt them for the rest of their lives.
Please don't be fooled into thinking that there is a positive side to taking kind young people, and turning them into killers and bullies.
sincerely,
Amy Hendrickson
Notinourname.net
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FROM A SOLDIER:
thanks Amy for that wonderful input. and you are the military expert because.....? what rank are you? what branch of service? and where have you been? Me?? I'm a Specialist in the United States Army about to make Sergeant. I'm an MP and I just got back from Baghdad, Iraq last month and let me tell you Iraq is not the country that the media makes it out to be. I even volunteered to go back in the next coming year. Just so I can go kill innocent Iraqi's? Quite the opposite. I went there to kill terrorists. 19 months and I have yet to do so.
Saddam ruined these peoples lives. He stole from them and tortured them. I spent a year and a half in Iraq already in the heat of it all. Patrolled the worst streets that country has to offer and haven't had to fire my weapon once. I plan on going back to help that country again. I was part of the security for the first free elections of a country. If you even voted this year, how did you do it? Drive up in your BMW with a full tank of gas without a worry in the world? Or in full gear and in terror of losing your life for your freedom.
The way I see it people like you can do one of three things:
1) bite your lip the next time you feel like judging something that you will never understand
2) lace up your boots and find out what its really like there
3) take part in something special.
My last deployment in Baghdad. I started the Piazza Toy Express. I did not ask for any care packages for myself. My family and friends sent me toys, candy, and clothing for the children of Iraq. (see attached picture of myself and my gunner, a cold-hearted trigger happy killer, on our knees with Iraqi children blowing bubbles) I exposed myself to Iraqi people everyday to hand out gifts. The next deployment kicks off in another couple of months. I will send you my mail address in Iraq personally so you can be a part of it, if you have the heart. Until then, think before you speak and enjoy the freedoms SOLDIERS give you everyday. Sleep tight in your comfortable bed and drive safe in your pretty little car.
SPC Andy C. Piazza
463rd Military Police Company
United States Army
(I have Andy's address if any of you would like to write to him or thank him or send toys for the Iraqi kids...let me know)
Our young soldiers are sent to Iraq to dominate the people there in any way that they can, dragging off family members, imprisoning and perhaps even torturing numbers of civilians. Bush is a traitor for asking American young people to participate in these atrocities which will haunt them for the rest of their lives.
Please don't be fooled into thinking that there is a positive side to taking kind young people, and turning them into killers and bullies.
sincerely,
Amy Hendrickson
Notinourname.net
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FROM A SOLDIER:
thanks Amy for that wonderful input. and you are the military expert because.....? what rank are you? what branch of service? and where have you been? Me?? I'm a Specialist in the United States Army about to make Sergeant. I'm an MP and I just got back from Baghdad, Iraq last month and let me tell you Iraq is not the country that the media makes it out to be. I even volunteered to go back in the next coming year. Just so I can go kill innocent Iraqi's? Quite the opposite. I went there to kill terrorists. 19 months and I have yet to do so.
Saddam ruined these peoples lives. He stole from them and tortured them. I spent a year and a half in Iraq already in the heat of it all. Patrolled the worst streets that country has to offer and haven't had to fire my weapon once. I plan on going back to help that country again. I was part of the security for the first free elections of a country. If you even voted this year, how did you do it? Drive up in your BMW with a full tank of gas without a worry in the world? Or in full gear and in terror of losing your life for your freedom.
The way I see it people like you can do one of three things:
1) bite your lip the next time you feel like judging something that you will never understand
2) lace up your boots and find out what its really like there
3) take part in something special.
My last deployment in Baghdad. I started the Piazza Toy Express. I did not ask for any care packages for myself. My family and friends sent me toys, candy, and clothing for the children of Iraq. (see attached picture of myself and my gunner, a cold-hearted trigger happy killer, on our knees with Iraqi children blowing bubbles) I exposed myself to Iraqi people everyday to hand out gifts. The next deployment kicks off in another couple of months. I will send you my mail address in Iraq personally so you can be a part of it, if you have the heart. Until then, think before you speak and enjoy the freedoms SOLDIERS give you everyday. Sleep tight in your comfortable bed and drive safe in your pretty little car.
SPC Andy C. Piazza
463rd Military Police Company
United States Army
(I have Andy's address if any of you would like to write to him or thank him or send toys for the Iraqi kids...let me know)
