[GJM] Turn off the Life Support, America is Dead...

[E. Crockett]

--- marguerite hampton <ecopilgrim at aabol.com> wrote:

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> We've been asked for so long to support our troops;
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> perhaps it is time to support them in speaking their
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> truth. 
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> From: Daniel Drasin <Ddrasin at aol.com> 
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> Subject: "We, The American Soldiers, Were The
> Terrorists" 
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> And this soldier adds: Turn off the Life Support,
> America is Dead... 
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> "We, The American Soldiers, Were The Terrorists" 
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> "I was awakened at 3 a.m. that first night and told
> to get my ass up  
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> quickly because in one hour we were going to raid a
> house full of  
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> terrorists. 
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> Capt. Conde and some sergeants showed me and my
> squad mates a  
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> satellite photo of a house and a drawing of the
> layout of the inside.  
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> Our assignment was to blow off the door, burst into
> the house, raid  
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> it fast and raid it good -- looking for contraband,
> caches of  
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> weapons, signs of terrorists or terrorist activity,
> then rounding up  
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> the men and getting out damn fast. The longer we
> stayed in any one  
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> location, the longer somebody would have to put us
> in the sights of a  
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> rocket-propelled grenade or lob mortars at us. 
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> I had no idea what to expect. 
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> Would I charge through the door, only to be blown to
> bits by a  
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> grenade? Would somebody with an AK-47 knock my
> Oklahoman ass right  
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> back out that door? 
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> Would some six-year-old terrorist with two days of
> gun training be  
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> waiting to put me in his crosshairs? 
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> ..I gripped my M-249. Yes, it could belt out 2,000
> rounds a minute  
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> but only in theory. You couldn't really hold your
> finger down that  
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> long. When you were blazing away like that, the
> bullets turned the  
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> barrel as hot as Hades. And if you held your finger
> down too long, it  
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> would warp the barrel. 
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> It took thirty seconds for Jones and me to put the
> charge of C-4  
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> plastic explosive on the door. 
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> Then we dashed around to the side of the house so we
> wouldn't blow  
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> ourselves up. You'd be fried meat if you were
> anywhere near the  
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> explosion. I set off the blast, and then the six of
> us charged in.  
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> Jones went first -- that skinny, red-haired Ohio boy
> was always hot  
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> to trot. With Jones leading the way we burst into
> the house, armed to  
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> the hilt. Kevlar helmets, flak jackets, machine
> guns, combat boots,  
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> the whole nine yards. 
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> I'd never been inside an Iraqi's house before. 
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> We charged through a kitchen. I had been told by
> squad leader Padilla  
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> to check everything, so I even opened the fridge.
> Perhaps, I thought,  
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> I would find guns or grenades hidden inside. No such
> luck. 
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> In the fridge, all I saw was a bit of food. In the
> freezer I found  
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> big slabs of meat, uncovered. No wrapping. No
> plastic. Frozen, just  
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> like that. We ran into a living room with long
> couches, one along  
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> each wall. 
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> In this room with the couches we found two children,
> a teenager, and  
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> a woman. We also found two young men in the house.
> One looked like a  
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> teenager and the other was perhaps in his early 20s
> -- brothers. 
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> We hollered and cussed. I spat dip on the floor and
> screamed along  
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> with the other soldiers at the top of my lungs. I
> knew they didn't  
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> understand, but I hollered anyway. 
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> "Get down," I shouted. "Get the f--k down. Shut the
> f--k up." 
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> They didn't know what "get down" meant, so we
> knocked the two  
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> brothers to the floor, face down. 
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