The Soldiers Who Want To Finish The Job
Guess what the typical leftist idiots at the London Times are just figuring out:
The Soldiers Who Want To Finish The Job
From The Times
September 10, 2007
by Martin Fletcher in Baghdad
Specialist Emmitt Delong’s wife has cancer but he has not asked to be sent home from Iraq. The 26-year-old soldier from Columbus, Ohio, wants to stay with his colleagues from the 2-12th Cavalry who are working to pacify the district of Ghazaliyah in West Baghdad. “I can honestly say we are making progress here, no matter what angle you look at it from,” he said.
Captain David Bradley, of Task Force 1-77, has spent less than a month with his wife in the two years since they were married, but is in no hurry to see US soldiers like himself withdrawn from Ramadi, the newly peaceful capital of Anbar province. “It’s a moot point whether we should have come here in the first place but having done so we owe it to the Iraqis to finish the job,” he said.
It is no fun being a US soldier in Iraq right now. They endure daytime temperatures in excess of 110 degrees while wearing body armour. They live in spartan accommodation. Many are on their third or fourth tours, and some of those tours now last 15 months. But as Congress starts deliberating today on whether to demand a timetable for withdrawing from Iraq, a surprising number of US soldiers say they should be allowed to complete their mission.
There are many exceptions, of course. “I think we’ve done a lot of good, but it’s time to go,” Sergeant Shana Krenzer, 26, said as she smoked a cigarette outside her office at Camp Stryker near Baghdad airport.
But numerous soldiers approached by The Times in recent days said General Petraeus’s arrival as America’s top commander in Iraq in January had raised morale and given them a fresh sense of purpose and direction.
“People back home just don’t see the progress we’re making or they would not want us to be withdrawn,” said Staff Sergeant Ramond Piper, 29, from Youngstown, Ohio.
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They should break it down and they’d find that those actually involved in the daily slog see the improvements. They’d say let’s finish the job. Those standing outside their office smoking a cigarette want to cut and run because there’s no place to get your nails done in Baghdad.
September 9th, 2007 at 9:12 pmHeh well said.
September 9th, 2007 at 11:04 pmJ.C.
Hear, Hear…It never surprises me that those in the rear with the gear have more negative opinions about a war than those who are actually in the shit all the time.
Perhaps cutie-pie should have stayed home playiing with her G.I Joe doll instead of trying to emulate the real thing.
September 10th, 2007 at 12:30 am“Sergeant Shana Krenzer, 26, said as she smoked a cigarette outside her office at Camp Stryker near Baghdad airport.”
(I pulled that quote before reading comments. )
Suprised they aired comments that our deployed solidiers think we should stay.
September 10th, 2007 at 3:10 amI am not surprised that most want to finish-they are known for being persistant.
September 10th, 2007 at 3:33 amThey break my heart… The military and their families are the only ones truly sacrificing and we have these pansy-assed liberals that just want it “their way”. God help us, God Bless our Military.
September 10th, 2007 at 7:32 amIf she wants to come home, I have something she can smoke!
September 10th, 2007 at 8:20 amThere is a reason the are referred to as REMFs…
September 11th, 2007 at 8:06 am