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Troops want to go home
Nothing is more true than the American soldier is ready to come home from Iraq and not have to worry about returning to this war-torn country.
As much as the American people are fighting for us to come home, it is hurting us in the combat zone. Congress passed a bill to send to the president that he vetoed.
It is a good strategy to try to incorporate our funding with an approval to bring us home, but it is no use to try, because of the promises the president has made. The president said over and over he would veto any bill that has anything to do with the American soldiers coming home.
Why doesn’t he realize that he is hurting us in Iraq? The American people want us home so we can shed no more blood on foreign soil. Granted, it is a part of combat, but what really is our purpose in Iraq? We were sent here to rid this country of “weapons of mass destruction,” but have only found “mass weapons of destruction.”
We are dealing with insurgents on a daily basis in Iraq, but why isn’t our president willing to deal with us (the American soldier)? Our government needs to unite and stop fighting each other about bringing the soldiers home. For every day they argue, more soldiers are being killed, and for what reason? Because one person has control over the Iraq situation and no one is willing to confront him.
As for our government and our chain of command, people need to know that the soldiers don’t want time off, more money or to go to war with anyone else. We want to come home for good.
Let countries fight their own battles like they are in Somalia, and stop trying to rule the whole world.
Staff Sgt. Roy Bell Rustamiyah, Iraq
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