'Our sons are seen as cannon fodder'

Sunday October 24, 2004

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Now, after a week of rumour, denial and uncertainty, it has finally been confirmed that it is to be redeployed from the relative security of UK-controlled Basra to flashpoints in a US-controlled area south of Baghdad.

Mrs Brady's son, Charlie, 22, was due home tomorrow at the end of his second six-month tour of duty in the Gulf. Instead, he will be part of the 850-strong unit heading north to free US troops and enable them to join the long-awaited battle to retake Falluja.

'I am so angry at the callous and heartless way we have been treated and at the lies we have been told,' she said. 'One minute we are being told that the regiment may no longer exist. The next the boys are being asked to give their all to clean up after the Americans. I am terrified of what my son's going to see and I'm dreading, more than ever, that I'm going to get that knock on the door. It's a terrible waiting game.'

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'We know our boys signed up for this and we know they'll do the job to the best of their ability. But while Bush and Blair and Hoon will all have their families around the table at Christmas, we won't. Because our sons are being treated as nothing more than cannon fodder.'

http://observer.guardian.co.uk/focus/story/0,6903,1334712,00.html

Grrrrrrrrrrrrr.

This is the shit the AmeriKan public never sees

these photos are taken by DOD photograpers and others and smuggled back to good old amerika

I've been trying for about 30 minutes and keep getting "cannot be found."

Some NeoCon thug will try to take it down. or some CIA operative will try to Hack the site

MORE OF THE SHIT THEY DON'T WANT YOU TO SEE

that the DOD allows cameras anywhere near the battlefield.
Thanks for posting these saigon. These should be frontpage NYT like we had during Viet Nam. Only photos like these will cause a change in peoples "video game" perception of the war.

peace,
lc

everyones cameras after Abu Ghraib?

With the advent of digital photography it is easy to carry a CD with 500 photos on it.

"US-controlled area south of Baghdad."

I believe the only area actually controlled by the US is the Green Zone and that is becoming tenuous at best.

the area south of Baghdad also known as Kuwait.

I am so sick of getting that email "what the media won't show you". The freepers really believe it's all about the schools, and drinking water. Maybe these pics will open their beady little eyes.

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Or if you want one more graphic just let me know.

He was walking past a burning bradley vehicle with his backpack on and was not smiling. The repukes are in denial.

Welcome to DU flygal!

Like his older brother and uncle are presently doing in the Iraqi Resistance.