IRAQ: The real trouble has not yet begun.

[JoRed]

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Mernaries are soldiers from other countries hired to fight against TERRORISM :mrgreen:

Out from the mouth of babes...lolz

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[tolstoi]

^^ayaw kasuko dayon anang word nga TERRORISM bai..i'm not naming any organization here :mrgreen:

[JoRed]

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Â* Â*Nagkaluya na ang mga Tigreng Papel!

[SPRINGFIELD_XD_40]

LOLZ .... dong JORED , same old guerilla tactics este style of cartoons ? Natural ug source nimo ana anti Govt and worst of all anti Bush admin , what do you expect ?

The topic says the real trouble has not yet begun . TRUE and are all cause and effect , PREVENTIVE MEASURES .... for breeding grounds of terrorist . They are smarter than that now .... its all govt support and not religion symphaty now .

[JoRed]

This is how American soldiers practice LIBERTY in Iraq...

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[tolstoi]

^^that is nothing compared to the atrocities SADAM caused to his people like the GENOCIDE [mass killing] using nerve gas..mas nindot man gani kung gi-nerve gas sad nang mga tawhana kaysa torturon.

[SPRINGFIELD_XD_40]

Kita mo post ug mga cartoons na PRO ADMIN ma BUSH or PGMA .... aguy nerz samot daghan gyud mo hilak .

[JoRed]

2,000 & counting...One survivor's story...

27 October 2005
2,000 US TROOPS DEAD IN IRAQ: ONE SURVIVOR TELLS HIS STORY
I went to fight in Iraq to get revenge for 9/11... I found out Bush had led us into a war that was immoral and totally wrong
From Ryan Parry in Kansas City, Missouri
BRAVE Tomas Young saw it as his patriotic duty to join the Army three days after 9/11.

Tomas, 25, wanted revenge on the terrorists who murdered nearly 2,750 people in the Twin Towers.

But on his first mission in Iraq - and before he had fired a single bullet in anger - he was left paralysed from the chest down after being shot in an ambush.

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COURAGE: Tomas at home in Kansas City




Now his anguish at never being able to walk again has turned to anger that he and thousands of others are being sent to fight an immoral war for George Bush.


As America this week mourned its 2000th victim of the war, Tomas said: "I joined the Army to exact some sort of retribution on what happened to us, whether it be going to

find Osama bin Laden or to get al-Qaeda.


"I joined to get back for what happened. Nothing more, nothing less. But so far there have been 2,000 dead American soldiers and some 100,000 dead Iraqi civilians.


"That's certainly a lot more than we lost on September 11. What has happened in Iraq is wrong."


Tomas, now confined to a wheelchair, is bitter that his Government's lies got him to enrol.


And he is frustrated Mr Bush will not listen to the American public and withdraw the troops.


He said: "From the start I didn't see a connection between Iraq and 9/11, but when Bush first said, 'Weapons of mass destruction', I bought into that a bit.


"However, when that reason became more and more bulls**t I started to fall off the bandwagon.


"It became clear they didn't have any strong connection and that's when I started to snap."

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PROUD: With mum before war


THE young Army specialist is contemptuous of his President's attempts to justify the conflict.


"Bush kept coming up with reason after reason that was proving to be wrong," Tomas said. "It reminded me of when I was naughty as a kid.


"Mom would find out my first excuse wasn't true, so I'd make up a second and third until I would finally admit what I'd done and take my whupping."


His opposition to the war hardened soon after he was sent to Iraq with the 2nd Battalion 5th Cavalry regiment in March 2004.


The soldier, of Kansas City, Missouri, recalled: "I was saying, 'See these oil fires? This is why we're here, guys. We're not defending freedom'. I realised my reasons for joining were being twisted."


The day that would alter his life forever came on April 4.


He and his colleagues were sent to guard a rescue mission in Baghdad's Sadr City district.


He found himself one of 25 troops crammed into a truck meant to hold 18. Tomas said: "The truck was beaten up.


"It was supposed to have a canvas cover and armour on the sides. It didn't have either.


"Space was so tight that I had my legs folded and was lying on my back so more people could get in.


"I was meant to have my M16 aiming off the side but I couldn't get enough room to pivot it around and shoot if I needed to."


Although the rescue mission went smoothly, his truck later came under attack from rooftop snipers armed with AK47s.


Tomas said: "They opened fire and myself and three or four others got shot. It was like shooting fish in a barrel."


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LOVING: Tomas and wife Brie


HE was hit under the shoulder blade and the bullet severed his spinal cord, paralysing him instantly.


"I went numb," he recalled. "I dropped my M16 and my fingertips were tingling. It was like a shock through my body. I went rigid.


"I remember looking at my hands and trying to will them to grab my M16, but couldn't get them to move. I tried to yell but all I could get out was a horse-whisper."


A second shot tore into his knee. He scarcely felt it.


Tomas was eventually airlifted to hospitals in Kuwait, Germany and, finally, Washington DC.


He was constantly sedated and recalls little. But he remembers the emotional moment he came round and saw his mother, Cathy Smith.


"I'm a mommy's boy," he admitted. "I don't care how tough you are, when you see your mom after what I've been through you start to cry."


Last Saturday, Staff Sgt George Alexander, 34, became the 2,000th US soldier killed in the conflict.


He had been hit by a roadside bomb in Samarra, 60 miles north of Baghdad, five days earlier.


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GRIM TOLL: George Alexander


The death was viewed as a grim landmark by America's growing anti-war movement.


Now Tomas is determined to ensure it is one of the last.


He is a member of the Iraq Veterans Against the War movement and recently joined leading activist Cindy Sheehan at a demo outside Mr Bush's ranch in Crawford, Texas. Her son Casey, 24, was killed in Baghdad on the same day Tomas was hit.


Tomas and wife Brie, 24, are now trying to look to the future and are thinking of having IVF treatment to start a family.


But he remains angry about the way the war changed his life. And he called on Mr Bush to stop others suffering in the same way.


"I'd probably be a little bitter even if the war was just," he confessed. "But the fact that I'm in this situation, compounded with the fact we went to an immoral war, makes it harder to accept.


"Bush led us into something that was wrong. He now needs to lead us out."

[tolstoi]

kung magpa enlist ka sa militar 50% naka yatap ana..ngano wala man na mangreklamo kato wala pa sila nisulod anang butanga..