2nd Platoon, Charlie 1-26 stage a ‘mutiny’

[stormulf]

"All wars are sacred ... to those who have to fight them. If the people who started wars didn't make them sacred, who would be foolish enough to fight? But, no matter what rallying cries the orators give to the idiots who fight, no matter what noble purposes they assign to wars, there is never but one reason for a war. And that is money. All wars in reality are money squabbles. But so few people ever realize it. Their ears are too full of bugles and drums and fine words from stay-at-home orators. Sometimes the rallying cry is 'Save the Tomb of Christ from the Heathen!' Sometimes it's "Down with Popery!' and sometimes 'Liberty!' and sometimes 'Cotton, Slavery, and States' Rights!'" -- Rhett Butler from Margaret Mitchell's Gone With The Wind

"A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government." -- Edward Abbey


‘Not us. We’re not going.’
Soldiers in 2nd Platoon, Charlie 1-26 stage a ‘mutiny’ that pulls the unit apart
Stories by KELLY KENNEDY - Staff writer
Posted : Saturday Dec 8, 2007 1457 EST

Excerpt:

For all his dark humor, the “Hero of Burger King,” as fellow soldiers teasingly called him, was deeply rattled by the carnage of the explosion at the fast-food court. At Apache, he expected trouble. But not at Burger King.

“That affected me,” he said. For the next few days, he said, he slept in the open-ended concrete bunkers positioned between the housing units.

It was just another bad day to add to many — and DeNardi’s platoon had already faced misery that seemed unbearable. When five soldiers with 2nd Platoon were trapped June 21 after a deep-buried roadside bomb flipped their Bradley upside-down, several men rushed to save the gunner, Spc. Daniel Agami, pinned beneath the 30-ton vehicle. But they could only watch — and listen to him scream — as he burned alive. The Bradley was far too heavy to lift, and the flames were too high to even get close. The four others died inside the vehicle. Second Platoon already had lost four of its 45 men since deploying to Adhamiya 11 months before. June 21 shattered them.

Though their commanders moved them from the combat outpost to safer quarters, members of 2nd Platoon would stage a revolt they viewed as a life-or-death act of defiance. With all they had done and all they had seen, they now were consumed with an anger that ate at the memory of the good men they were when they arrived in Iraq.

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‘Not us. We’re not going.’ - Army News, opinions, editorials, news from Iraq, photos, reports - Army Times

[stormulf]

While viewing the Dog and Pony show going on with all the condidates to the big house on the hill I do hope you will think on these things. With 120 American soldiers committing suicide every week I absolutely detest the smug grins on these politicians mealy mouths. Does anyone not smell something fishy going on in Amerika!?

Get back from a fifteen month tour, or longer, PTSD'd to the max and or worse and what do you get? The words "Frag the MF'ers" come to mind from another era in the same old mud! Grunt it up **** it out. End up on Hamburger hill. Get back home...what the Phrack is missing?

[sabadgeman]

The problem is we can no longer fight a war that is what is wrong. Troops are constantly worried that they will be called to task under civilian rules by civilian lawyers over actions in a war zone. You have a rag tag bunch of peacenicks embedded in the units with TV cameras at every turn fighting a media savvy enemy that uses the very thing he hates the most freedom of speech to fight his war.

The sooner you guys tell NBC FOX CBC the BBC and the rest to farkoff and fight the war properly the better. Kitchener realised this in the Boer war and once the "civilians" were taken out of the supply chain the war ended!