Marine in Iraq: 'It's worse every day'

[Barrett808]

Marine in Iraq: 'It's worse every day'
MIKEARGENTO
Thursday, October 14, 2004

The summer of 2000, before his senior year in high school, Jonathan Snyder made up his mind. He was going to be a Marine.

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His lessons culminated Sunday, when he was quoted in the Washington Post, saying, "Every day you read articles in the states when it's like 'Oh, it's getting better and better.' But when you're here, you know it's worse every day."

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Sherman Snyder has heard some of this from his son. He doesn't hear from him as regularly as he'd like. It's hard to make a phone call or write a letter when you're under attack. Sherman said his son has kept in touch with his wife, Stephanie, and 7-month-old daughter, Ann Marie. They are living with Sherman in Gettysburg while Jonathan is overseas.

His son doesn't say a lot about what's going on in Iraq. He does say, though, that things aren't going well.

And he does question the war.

"I feel about the same way he does," said Sherman, who works for a weatherization company. "We've lost 1,000 soldiers for nothing."

Sherman said, "I don't blame those boys over there. They're doing their job. But the people who got us into this ..."

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http://ydr.com/story/mike/45086/

[leftchick]

1. Reminds me of another UN-winable conflict....

This sounds so familiar...

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When the 81s go out on patrol, the Post quoted the soldiers as saying, they seldom accomplish anything. One Marine told the reporter, "You don't really know who you're fighting." Other Marines said that by the time they respond to an attack, the insurgents have disappeared, and they're left with nobody to fight.

They hear their officers telling them that once they train Iraqi security forces, they'll be able to leave. They think that's nonsense — although you'd be hard pressed to find a Marine who uses that word in lieu of a more descriptive term. The soldiers believe the Iraqis are nowhere near being able to take over for the Marines and may never be. Some of the Iraqi police, in fact, have changed sides and have joined the insurgents.

[hadrons]

2. sounds like a bunch of military girlie-men to Ah-nold

[booksenkatz]

3. But Ann Coulter says you don't mind getting your hair mussed. nt

[OKNancy]

4. Article he was refering to

at frist I thought this was a duplicate, because I vividly remember reading " it's worse every day".

Here is the article the Dad is talking about
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=894736