Saturday, June 03, 2006 1:03 PM
jfitzer
Hello again
Getting a little bit of a break from the roads of iraq... I'll be filling a spot at an outpost in the middle of nowhere for a month or so. Let me tell ya... it's a welcome change of pace.
Here's an idea of the conditions
http://www.agd.state.tx.us/36id/56BCT/images/galleries/RP%20-%20Relay%20Points.asp
sparse, but not bad. Internet, weekly PX and laundry runs, and (the BEST part) a nice, relatively safe environment for a while. Not too much worrying about getting attacked. Hopefully though, it won't last too long... i can see the lack of activity getting real boring, real quick.
If you haven't been living under a rock lately, you've heard about the alleged killings of innocent civilians. Let me say that, should these allegations be true, nothing less than execution would be appropriate. of course, in REALITY, the lower enlisted will serve jail time, while the officers involved get reprimanded.
I may be critical of things happening in my unit, but I see daily the positive things that U.S. Troops do over here... and it saddens me to see behavior like this out of folks with a US uniform on. May the victims and their families find peace somehow, and may those responsible burn in hell.
Iraq is fragile enough without idiots like these angering the iraqi people further. While some good stuff might take us a few steps towards a peaceful iraq, *** like this takes us 100 steps back.
Marines: your comrade got killed. It's understandable you are upset. But let me remind you that the vast majority of iraqis are simple people who only want to etch out some kind of decent existence for their families. Not every iraqi is an insurgent.