Iraq GI: "I challenge the president ...to ride alongside me"

[jojo54]

ABC News (east coast) last night had a piece about troops on the front lines of Baghdad. Spc. Michael Vassell of Apache Company had this to say:

"I challenge anybody in Congress to do my rotation." ""Because we have people up there in Congress with the brain of a 2-year-old who don't know what they are doing -- they don't experience it. I challenge the president or anyone who has us for 15 months to ride alongside me. I do another 15 months if he comes out here and rides along with me every day for 15 months. I'll do 15 more months. They don't even have to pay me extra."

This was one of the most frank/realistic news pieces about Iraq that I have ever seen the MSM do. Read the entire story at this link:

http://abcnews.go.com/WN/Story?id=3383389&page=1

[bleedingheart]

1. The fact that the situation is so tense that they killed a taxi driver

who was coming to pick up that woman (so says the article)...just because he was circling the block looking for her house...and when he failed to stop...he died because those soldiers are so fearful of car bombs...that says a lot about how "safe" Iraq is.