I've just come back from a welcome-home-yet-going-away party for a fellow reporter from my paper who now files from
Iraq. He's back for a few weeks and then off again, and so a good party was in order.
He asked us not to vote for President Bush come November. As a member of the military he is not allowed to speak ill of his commander-in-chief, and he did not, but he made it clear that morale over there isn't just "We're weary and tired and want to go home," it's "We're weary and tired and want to go home, and we're not here for the right reasons, and we're mad about being here, and we're mad at the person who put us here." (None of that is a direct quote from him. Just my paraphrasing.)
And he also made it clear that this morale has had nothing to do with the revelations of the 9/11 commission hearings; this morale existed previously.
Just a thinking point. I'm not 100 percent anti-war but this got to me.
I must now catch an hour or so of sleep before I get up to write a truly asinine story. (Truly. They're doing a procession for Palm Sunday - a re-enactment of Jesus entering Jerusalem on a donkey. I badly want to start the story with "Jesus came to town on a big ass," but I have a feeling I would ruffle some palms.)
He asked us not to vote for President Bush come November. As a member of the military he is not allowed to speak ill of his commander-in-chief, and he did not, but he made it clear that morale over there isn't just "We're weary and tired and want to go home," it's "We're weary and tired and want to go home, and we're not here for the right reasons, and we're mad about being here, and we're mad at the person who put us here." (None of that is a direct quote from him. Just my paraphrasing.)
And he also made it clear that this morale has had nothing to do with the revelations of the 9/11 commission hearings; this morale existed previously.
Just a thinking point. I'm not 100 percent anti-war but this got to me.
I must now catch an hour or so of sleep before I get up to write a truly asinine story. (Truly. They're doing a procession for Palm Sunday - a re-enactment of Jesus entering Jerusalem on a donkey. I badly want to start the story with "Jesus came to town on a big ass," but I have a feeling I would ruffle some palms.)
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