GI Special 4K18: "We All Want To Get Out Of Here" - November 18, 2006

Thomas F. Barton

As the death toll among American troops has risen in Baghdad, and the security plan has faltered, Captain Bagley’s soldiers say they have tried to resist the urge to question the larger American enterprise here, whether it was right or wrong to come to Iraq in the first place, whether and when American troops should leave. They are here to do a job, they say, and are duty-bound to complete it. And what they have to say when this reporter isn’t around, he will never know. But it goes far beyond "trying to resist the urge." (...)

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