http://www.traveling-soldier.org/11.03.words.php“In the beginning I was into this; we all were.
we haven't found anything, no weapons of mass destruction, no Saddam, no nothing. And the people there hate us. If we were rolling through a town and they were cheering, hell yeah, it would make us feel better. But when they're not cooperating and throwing rocks and giving us evil looks, we don't want to be there. We're conquerors to them. It wasn't supposed to be like that. ... I hate it over there, I hate it." – Specialist Castillo, while on leave from Iraq.
“We do not fire on anybody unless we feel that our life is threatened. We don't just kill for the fun of it. Have you ever killed anybody? It sucks! … I have lost two very good friends of mine in an RPG attack a few months ago. Having to help put them in body bags is an image I will never forget." – Joshua Matthews, 101st Airborne Division, northern Iraq.
“I don't need friends like this. They smile in your face during the daytime and they try to kill you at night." – Sgt. Derek White, 299th Engineer Battalion.
" seem to have gotten pretty aggravated with us being around. I asked my interpreter if the Iraqi people are mad at us. He said that 90 percent of Iraqis hate us, and the other 10 percent have left Iraq.” – Private T.J. Knight, the driver of White's humvee.
“We shouldn't be here and we should never have been sent here. And maybe you can tell me: why were we sent here?” – Military policeman, near Abu Ghurayb.
“Before I came over, watching the news I was rah-rah and here we go. Now I am just thinking, this needs to stop and go away. When talking to my wife at home, you know, people just hear about a few casualties a day and it doesn't sound like a big deal. But when you see a 19-year-old kid with his leg barely hanging on, that one alone is a big deal.” – Major Gordon Olsen, orthopedic specialist, Heber City, Utah where the most seriously injured from Iraq go for treatment.
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