Ted's outraged! You should be too.

[bluescribbler]

For at least a year, the soldiers had survived one of the most dangerous jobs in the world: driving trucks on the violent roads of Iraq for the US Army. Half the company had been at it nearly two years.

But when the 150 soldiers in the Massachusetts-based 220th Transportation Company , 94th Regional Readiness Command , arrived at Camp Atterbury in Indiana just after midnight Friday for demobilization, they were told they would have to take the bus home -- an 18- to 20-hour ride.


Read more: After year in Iraq, soldiers face 18-hour bus ride home

[Benhurst]

1. It's just BushAmerica's way of welcoming them home and getting

them ready for what is to follow.

BushAmerica

And this be our motto: Root, hog, or die.

[wakeme2008]

2. First Welcome to DU

:hi:

this is CHEAP Rummy at work again...... :grr:

[Ian David]

3. Considering the time they now spend at airport security...

it probably works out to be about the same as flying.

:sarcasm:

[soothsayer]

4. at least they don't have any IEDs to fear on their horrid ride home

[LibDemAlways]

5. The Bush Crime Family has no use for these guys

stateside. I'm surprised they aren't told to stand by the side of the road and stick their thumbs out.

[Warpy]

7. That's what I was thinking, too

Welcome to the third world. And worse.

[babylonsister]

6. Think everyone is outraged now? Wait til they're recalled. nt

[PADemD]

8. Yeah, as soon as they get home.