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09/14/2003 Archived Entry: "Don't count those military votes just yet, George."
Don't count those military votes just yet, George.
Not when the enlisted men - who have been told to shut the fuck up once already - say things like this.
Pvt. Kenneth Henry, 21, a radar operator with a field artillery unit, said the response was muted by the pervasive knowledge among the soldiers and their families that they will likely have to return to Iraq soon."How could you make these people feel better when you just said you're putting $87 billion into sending them back?" Henry asked.
Henry spent about six months in Iraq, traveling from Kuwait over the border to Nasiriyah and through the Karbala Gap before helping to take the Baghdad airport. He said he lost about 10 members of his unit, the Alpha 1-39 Field Artillery, and he's not eager to go back.
"What I heard him say was, 'You went there. You took names. Came home. Now you're going back,' " Henry said. "He likes war. He should go fight in a war for two days and see how he likes it."
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I trust everyone at the Pentagon remembers from back in the Clinton adminstration that our boys are just speaking their hearts when they say stuff about the president and you can't punish a brave american serviceman for that, can you?
Posted by julia @ 09/14/2003 02:31 AM NY
