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Moonlit_Angel said:No kidding^^^^-there is no reason that list should be that long.
Really.
Let's get them out of Iraq and bring them home. Now.
no way, not until the country is "running" normally again.
Moonlit_Angel said:No kidding^^^^-there is no reason that list should be that long.
Really.
Let's get them out of Iraq and bring them home. Now.
North of Baghdad, meanwhile, three U.S. soldiers were wounded in a grenade attack, a day after a U.S. military policeman was killed in a bombing
MrsSpringsteen said:I heard this morning that all US troops there have been told they will serve a YEAR-does anyone know if this is true?
And I am so saddened and disgusted at the daily loss of soldiers
STING2 said:
Several hundred thousand Americans have now served in Iraq. Most of the Units there during the war in March/April have been withdrawn and replaced with new units.
US troops in Iraq 'to serve 12 months'
From correspondents in Baghdad
13aug03
THE commander of US forces in Iraq said today that American troops should expect to serve for at least a year, with brief rest breaks in the region and possibly a few days at home.
"It's a one year rotation," Lieutenant-General Ricardo Sanchez said.
"Every soldier has been told that they'll be deployed for a year, and then at the end of the year we'll be working to send them home."
But some of the 148,000 soldiers in Iraq said nobody had told them how long they would remain in the country, where guerrillas attack Americans daily and high temperatures reach scorching.
Pfc Deacon Finkle, 20, of Dallas, screwed up his face - red from the heat - when asked how long he would be in Iraq.
"Don't know. No idea," he said.
Special corporal Jeff Ross, perched atop a bridge overlooking Baghdad's dangerous Airport Highway, knew he was scheduled to be in Iraq for a year, saying: "We really don't have a choice".
"A year's going to be rough. It's going to be a long haul," said Ross, 22. "But I think we can do it. If it cools off a little bit it'll be all right."
The issue of soldiers' tours has been contentious, with troops and their families posting missives on the Internet criticising their government for keeping them in Iraq.
Some express concern about "mission creep", in which what begins as a swift war turns into a long-term occupation that could cause heavy American casualties as Iraqis become more and more sceptical of US promises to let them govern themselves.