12/10/06 Troops uninspired by commission's report
Submitted by WNPJ Outreach Coordinator Steve Burns
Consider one recommendations: to reduce U.S. "combat forces" in Iraq while rapidly increasing the number of U.S. "combat advisors" embedded with Iraqi military units. Does it make any difference to an American soldier, when he is being shot at by snipers and threatened by roadside bombs, that he is now to be considered a "combat advisor?" Doesn't this increase the danger for our troops, soon to be "embedded" with Iraqi units of doubtful loyalty?
First Lt. Gerard Dow had it right when he said of the Iraqi people, "U.S. soldiers are dying trying to help people who don't want their help."
If there had been even one participant in the Baker-Hamilton commission with Lt. Dow's common sense, they might have had the courage to come to the only conclusion that makes sense -- to bring our troops home now.
-- Steve Burns, Wisconsin Network for Peace and Justice, Madison
Troops uninspired by commission's report
Wisconsin State Journal
December 10, 2006
Consider one recommendations: to reduce U.S. "combat forces" in Iraq while rapidly increasing the number of U.S. "combat advisors" embedded with Iraqi military units. Does it make any difference to an American soldier, when he is being shot at by snipers and threatened by roadside bombs, that he is now to be considered a "combat advisor?" Doesn't this increase the danger for our troops, soon to be "embedded" with Iraqi units of doubtful loyalty?
First Lt. Gerard Dow had it right when he said of the Iraqi people, "U.S. soldiers are dying trying to help people who don't want their help."
If there had been even one participant in the Baker-Hamilton commission with Lt. Dow's common sense, they might have had the courage to come to the only conclusion that makes sense -- to bring our troops home now.
-- Steve Burns, Wisconsin Network for Peace and Justice, Madison
Submitted by wnpj on Tue, 12/12/2006 - 11:12am.