Exclusive: U.S. Troops Abandoned Me, Says Convoy Driver

[ECH1969]

A dramatic home video obtained by ABC News shows U.S. troops apparently abandoned a truck convoy after it came under insurgent attack in Iraq last year.

Three unarmed Halliburton truck drivers were executed at point-blank range once the troops left, according to a surviving driver, Preston Wheeler, of Mena, Ark., who taped the scene.

"They was murdered. To me, they was murdered," Wheeler told ABC News in an exclusive interview to be broadcast Wednesday on World News and Nightline. The tape shows an armored personnel carrier leading the trucks that Wheeler says was from the Virginia National Guard.

Once insurgents opened fire and disabled four trucks, the personnel carrier can be seen racing ahead. "They left. They, I don't know where they went, they're nowhere to be seen," Wheeler said.

http://blogs.abcnews.com/theblotter/2006/09/exclusive_us_tr.html

[Greeby]

1. While noone should be left to be executed

Given that we hear that Halliburton truck drivers get paid ten times that of a soldier on patrol, while Halliburton gives soldiers expired slop and call it food. It wouldn't suprise me in the slightest if one day, a group of National Guardsmen decided to leave them to die

[SpiralHawk]

2. Halliburton? Say, isn't that Dick "Five Deferments" Cheney's

special war profiteering operation?

Kind of sounds familiar... Halli-Five Deferments Cheney-burton.

Oh yes. One wonders if our US troops had Fearless Leader AWOL and Sidekick Five Deferments Cheney in mind when they abandoned the convoy? You know, follow the so-called chickenhawk leaders?

[Moderator]

3. duplicate

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=2532502