Angry, Disillusioned & Frustrated, Families Of Some GIs

This is what you will never hear in the mainstream news.

Angry, Disillusioned &
Frustrated, Families Of Some GIs
Seethe, Doubt Bush
By Judith Graham
Chicago Tribune
10-29-3


DENVER -- They are angry and disillusioned, frustrated and full of doubt. This war is not going the way they hoped it would.

They are wives and husbands of the 129th Army Reserves Combat Transportation Company, stationed in Kansas, and they are terrified for spouses who are conducting missions in Iraq.

A month ago, these family members launched a "bring our soldiers home" petition drive when the 129th Company's tour of duty was extended with no advance notice.

Today, after a string of suicide bombings in Iraq, they stand with a growing number of military families who are convinced that the war is going awry and who think the American public isn't getting a straight story on the conflict.

Doubts about Bush

Cherie Block, 29, could barely contain herself while watching President Bush's press conference Tuesday from her home in Sac City, Iowa, especially when Bush insisted the vast majority of Iraqis are with Americans, not against them.

"Look at everything that's going on there this week," Block said, "And [Bush] still has this perfect picture in his head that they want us there. To me, they're already against us.

"Either he doesn't really understand what's going on, or he's not telling it the way it really is," said Block, whose husband Wallace is a sergeant with the 129th Company.

Around the country, other military families are voicing concerns over the war, including Military Families Speak Out, a Massachusetts group that claims support from about 1,000 families nationwide. Some marched to protest the war last weekend in Washington, D.C.

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Just about any Bush speech makes me cry...in shame, usually moreso at his slaughtering of the English language, but then even more when I realize the moron graduated from an Ivy League school, and is our face to the world!

Though from Rense, it's easy to understand that GI's families want their boys home... Most deployments have been longer than standard, due to lack of personel, and they are being attacked daily in what should be peacetime roles... Not to mention, it's obvious the Iraqis are glad Saddam is gone, but they want us out within a year... But, if we leave them now, then we've got Afghanistan all over again...and someone likely worse than even Saddam will seize the reins... I want us out too, but we made our bed, and we gotta lie in it, until we come up with a better solution...

If we had intelligent leaders, we could hammer out an intelligent plan. Before the war, contrary to our military leaders' strong protests, Rumsfeld threw out the entire TipFid. (Military procedural/planning doctrine). Anybody recall, Mr. Genious and his little nitwit lacky Wolfowitz were arguing that we could pull it off with as little as 48,000 ground troops. These people have no business anywhere near our military, let alone leading it.

ECK,

this is a recurring theme for you isn't it?

Originally posted by THENEO
ECK,

this is a recurring theme for you isn't it?

NEO, I'm not interested in arguing with you like a child. If you're willing to offer intelligent debate, than by all means, TRY. If not, I would say, maybe you should go outside and play.