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the G-man said:

(Yesterday, I was chosen to be among a small group of soldiers assigned to the 42ID’s Task Force Liberty that would speak to President Bush, our Commander-in-Chief. The interview went well, but I would like to respond to what most of the mass-media has dubbed as, “A Staged Event.”


by definition if its prearranged, then its staged.

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First of all, we were told that we would be speaking with the President of the United States, our Commander-in-Chief, President Bush,


that's a really redundant thing to say.

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We were given an idea as to what topics he may discuss with us, but it’s the President of the United States; He will choose which way his conversation with us may go.


totally whipped

quote] We practiced passing the microphone around to one another, so we wouldn’t choke someone on live TV.


was that really a risk? what the hell kind of microphones are these guys using?

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President Bush told us, during his closing, that the American people were behind us.


he then added "a very small percentage sure."

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I know that we are fighting here, not only to preserve our own freedoms, but to establish those same freedoms for the people of Iraq. It makes my stomach ache to think that we are helping to preserve free speech in the US, while the media uses that freedom to try to RIP DOWN the President and our morale, as US Soldiers. They seem to be enjoying the fact that they are tearing the country apart. Worthless!


typical neocon argument "free speech should not be used to criticize the U.S."
of course they seem to forget that the founding fathers ripped into each other with all sorts of insults and accusations. i don't get why neocons think the country is so frail and fragile that it can't stand criticism for its mistakes and the mistakes of the leaders.

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The question I was most asked while I was home on leave in June was, “So...What’s REALLY going on over there?” Does that not tell you something?! Who has confidence in the media to tell the WHOLE STORY? It’s like they WANT this to turn into another Vietnam. I hate to break it to them, but it’s not.


vietnam was an upopular war with questionable motives that ruined a president.
hmm....sounds familiar.

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It is history in the making and I will not let the media or anyone else (who has not spent more than two weeks here) tell me otherwise. I have been here for almost a year. I have seen the progress made in so many ways from January’s elections to this referendum. Don’t tell me what the Iraqi people can or can’t do. They will tell you with their VOTES!


lets see what he has to say once he's out of the army. most soldiers won't say anything negative about their bosses until they finish their tour when suddenly they say all the bad shit they went through.

Bow ties are coool.