Troops Confront Lieberman On Iraq Visit
Is it time?
Written by GussSpc. David Williams, 22, of Boston, Mass., had two note cards in his pocket Wednesday afternoon as he waited for Sen. Joseph Lieberman. Williams serves in the 82nd Airborne Division from Fort Bragg, N.C., the first of the five “surge” brigades to arrive in Iraq, and he was chosen to join the Independent from Connecticut for lunch at a U.S. field base in Baghdad.
The night before, 30 other soldiers crowded around him with questions for the senator.
He wrote them all down. At the top of his note card was the question he got from nearly every one of his fellow soldiers:
“When are we going to get out of here?”
~J~ Says:
May 31st, 2007 at 9:31 amVisit ~J~
I personally believe Lieberman is right about the war, but when you stare those young people in the face and tell them they have to stay in that God-forsaken land (expression, not literal) it has to be difficult at best to explain to them that what they are doing is good, when they aren’t able to see the overall picture the way the generals are. They see their part of it and are judging from that. Maybe that is the overall picture and they do see the forest despite the trees.
It’s a shame they feel they can’t be honest or they’ll be busted for it. They are, after all, Americans, and in my mind they are the Americans who have the most right to gripe because they are the ones fighting to give us the right to speak freely.