GI Special 4G12: What The Recruiter Never Said - July 12, 2006

Another war another time, same criminal mentality behind the wars. Thomas F. Barton

"The recruiter never said that I wouldn't be able to look my mom in the eye when it was over."Another Iraq War veteran, who served with the 101st Airborne Division in 2003, spoke of an incident in which his convoy ran down a small child in the streets of Al Khut and was not able to stop to assist the child, due to their orders.After having been told that his mission was "to win the hearts and minds" of Iraqis, he struggled to make sense of this incident, and it became one of the many contradictions he witnessed in Iraq that helped shape his current feelings about the war.Dave went on to issue a challenge: "We have to go home and engage our neighbors, our family, our friends. We have to call our representatives and ask for change, demand change. Ask them what they're doing to stop this war now."

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