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Monday February 10, 2003

The war in Iraq

I don't believe it's started yet, but "The war in Iraq" was the only title I could think of. Anyway, I haven't been too concerned with it up to this point. I don't know that I support it, but I don't want to be the victim of chemical or nuclear warfare either. However, it became pretty personal today when I received an e-mail from one of my best friends.

For those of you who didn't already know, I was recently activated and deployed to Kuwait on the seventh of February. Obviously I had to withdraw from school and could be here for up to a year. However, this is very unlikely and I'm speculating and hoping that out unit will be sent home in either May or June.
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I'm stationed at Al Jaber Air Base approximately 45 miles northwest of Kuwait City. As you can imagine the base in a very busy place right now with units from all four service braches present, along with a small contingency of British troops. I can't disclose too much information about the resources in place or our mission, but I can tell you the base is well fortified and protected. I'm sorry I didn't get in touch with some of you before I left. I had a very limited amount of time between the time I was notified and actually deployed, and was very busy taking care of personal affairs.

Yikes! Now I really hope we don't go to war!

Posted in General at Feb 10 2003, 09:48:28 PM MST 2 Comments
Comments:

It is unfortunate that the general american public is misinformed about a lot of international political issues. It is enough to say that without any doubt Iraq does NOT cause any treat to america in any way or form and this war is fabricated for our (American) interest.

Posted by anonymous on February 10, 2003 at 11:01 PM MST #

> It is unfortunate that the general american public is misinformed about a lot of international political issues. You are an idiot. Matt did not indicate that he was uninformed, merely that he was non-opinionated. The lack of a dogmatic opinion on an issue rarely indicates a lack of knowledge of the issue (quite the opposite, in many cases). > It is enough to say that without any doubt Iraq does NOT cause any treat to america in any way or form and this war is fabricated for our (American) interest. The Iraqi regime itself poses only a minor threat to America itself. The main threat posed by the Hussein regime is to his own people, of whom he has murdered hundreds of thousands (not to mention the destruction of the culture of the Marsh Arabs). The Iraqi people will owe a great debt to people like Matt's friend who are risking their lives to bring something approximating the freedom we westerners enjoy to Iraq.

Posted by Gavin on February 11, 2003 at 06:21 AM MST #

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