tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10616339.post111993674200894759..comments2023-08-20T04:44:26.157-04:00Comments on A Soldier's Thoughts: TAKE CAREZachhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13788548920729883920noreply@blogger.comBlogger51125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10616339.post-1122790703752176792005-07-31T02:18:00.000-04:002005-07-31T02:18:00.000-04:00Every soldier swears in KNOWING that the possibili...Every soldier swears in KNOWING that the possibility of actually having to go to war exists!<BR/><BR/>And they sure love that college money and benefits that military life provides.<BR/><BR/>So every soldier that is complaining (Zach) deserves a big, I TOLD YOU SO!!!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10616339.post-1122790319318281332005-07-31T02:11:00.000-04:002005-07-31T02:11:00.000-04:00The Next Step said... Really the solution is simpl...<I>The Next Step said... <BR/><BR/>Really the solution is simple: over 50 million Americans voted for Bush. I know, without a doubt, that there are plenty of 18-39 year olds in that demographic that can serve in Iraq.</I><BR/><BR/>I'll go if YOU will pay all my Property, Income, and other socialist giveaway program Taxes, that your liberal friends like to make me pay for.<BR/><BR/>Your Answer???Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10616339.post-1122041081119885192005-07-22T10:04:00.000-04:002005-07-22T10:04:00.000-04:00Cookies acting up...Zach, hope you and your family...Cookies acting up...<BR/><BR/>Zach, hope you and your family are well, and you're safely away from the thick of things over there. Take Care.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10616339.post-1122040876894781232005-07-22T10:01:00.000-04:002005-07-22T10:01:00.000-04:00Zach, hope you and your family are well, and you'r...Zach, hope you and your family are well, and you're safely away from the thick of things over there. Take Care.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10616339.post-1121569170114940012005-07-16T22:59:00.000-04:002005-07-16T22:59:00.000-04:00I had a couple of years of German In high school, ...I had a couple of years of German In high school, but I only remember enough to get by now.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10616339.post-1121568977217321992005-07-16T22:56:00.000-04:002005-07-16T22:56:00.000-04:00"I wish America was more like every other country ..."I wish America was more like every other country in the world in the advocating of second and third languages in schools. We are so arrogant to think that if anyone wants to talk to us, they better learn our language"<BR/><BR/>I thought Spanish was our second language. I think it would qualify as one because enough people here speak it.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10616339.post-1121499461960339452005-07-16T03:37:00.000-04:002005-07-16T03:37:00.000-04:00Anything you say here is public property!Anything you say here is public property!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10616339.post-1121494670813569882005-07-16T02:17:00.000-04:002005-07-16T02:17:00.000-04:00"Hey Dia-Hurria said..."Stop using MY posts for yo..."<I>Hey Dia-Hurria said...</I>"<BR/><BR/>Stop using MY posts for your arguments!!!<BR/><BR/>Anyone can cut and paste, use your brain and think of what you want to say, then say it.<BR/><BR/>-----------------------------------<BR/>What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us... Ralph Waldo Emerson<BR/><BR/>Democracy is a form of Government, Politics is a collection of buffoons attempting to interpret the ideals of that form of Government.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10616339.post-1121450486829189662005-07-15T14:01:00.000-04:002005-07-15T14:01:00.000-04:00This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10616339.post-1121352525809753782005-07-14T10:48:00.000-04:002005-07-14T10:48:00.000-04:00Enjoyed reading your blog. Pretty impressive that ...Enjoyed reading your blog. Pretty impressive that you can speak and translate Arabic. Best of luck to you and your family. Hope you can come home soon.<BR/><BR/>Feel free to visit my blog as well:<BR/>http://babyastrid.blogspot.comRosehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10716790047260146358noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10616339.post-1121349139285451552005-07-14T09:52:00.000-04:002005-07-14T09:52:00.000-04:00Hurria,That's what I meant by scary. I find it sc...Hurria,<BR/>That's what I meant by scary. I find it scary that other human beings feel that way because of our Forces invading their country. Don't be so quick to argue. I was agreeing with you. If you want to change things you have to not be so quick to jump. People don't react well to being berated by someone (especially when their view-points are the same). It doesn't reflect well on your intelligence.Mountain Girlhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06850550892261415574noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10616339.post-1121325621008517882005-07-14T03:20:00.000-04:002005-07-14T03:20:00.000-04:00"The best thing that Kan happen for Iraq now, as a..."<I>The best thing that Kan happen for Iraq now, as always, is for the U.S. to get the hell out.</I>"<BR/><BR/>Stupid IraKKis!<BR/><BR/>If you & the IraKi people really wanted to keep foreigners out, you would have gotten rid of your own diKtater, and eleKted someone who would have Kooperated with the U.N. and been a good neighbor to the rest of the world.<BR/><BR/>But since you didn't we had to Kome over there & do your job for you. You & the IraKi people Kreated, or allowed your problems to exist. And you allowed a diKtater to reign, kill his own people, and threaten the rest of the world. <BR/><BR/>You all Kan say thats a lie, or just AmeriKan greed talking, but <BR/>I suppose Iran & Israel bombed a vacant building back in 07 June 1981. Or the Coalition air raid on 17 January 1991. Both air raids, and many more, were specifically designated for the destruction of Iraq's nuclear weapons program infrastructure that was KNOWN to have existed. <BR/><BR/>Are you saying that we should have stopped in Afghanistan, even after many of the Taliban/Al-Qaeda fighters had fled into Iraq? Do you think that UN sanctions, or harsh words would have made Saddam give them up? Or maybe the UN inspections that worked so well after desert storm? <BR/><BR/>A leader who is willing to murder his own people wholesale ( http://massgraves.info/ ), will have absolutely have no qualms about using any Weapon of Mass Destruction that he could get his hands on. Now mix in a ready and willing terrorist force, the possiblility of WMD's, and pray they don't strike in your neck of the woods! LIES? I don't think so! <BR/><BR/>Besides anyone who has been paying attention, will know the only LIES about this war, are political partisan LIES.<BR/><BR/>Stupid IraKKis!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10616339.post-1121321655555188492005-07-14T02:14:00.000-04:002005-07-14T02:14:00.000-04:00Check This out...http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/home/...Check This out...<BR/><BR/>http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/home/today.guest.htmlAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10616339.post-1121293075494904902005-07-13T18:17:00.000-04:002005-07-13T18:17:00.000-04:00There was quite a bruhaha on my blog yesterday and...There was quite a bruhaha on my blog yesterday and today over the link I posted to this blog and the letter someone wrote. Let me know what you think.Mountain Girlhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06850550892261415574noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10616339.post-1121231242707527282005-07-13T01:07:00.000-04:002005-07-13T01:07:00.000-04:00Hey Dia-Hurria,Maybe this would have been better? ...Hey Dia-Hurria,<BR/><BR/>Maybe this would have been better? ( http://massgraves.info/ ), Do you know anyone in here? some of your friends might.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10616339.post-1121115035281494592005-07-11T16:50:00.000-04:002005-07-11T16:50:00.000-04:00yo sg Zach,you havin fun on leave? or whwerever y...yo sg Zach,<BR/><BR/>you havin fun on leave? or whwerever you are? <BR/><BR/>you and your ameriKan "friends and allies would best go home and plant vegetable gardens........ http://abutamam.blogspot.com/<BR/><BR/>mr/ms hurria....... any commment here?<BR/><BR/>f<BR/><BR/><BR/>What do you call ..<BR/><BR/><BR/><BR/>A Letter to the British People.<BR/><BR/>From Iman as-Saadun.<BR/><BR/>I’m sending this letter to the British people and in particular to the residents of London. For a period of hours, you have lived through moments of desperate anxiety and horror. In those hours you lost a member of your family or a friend, and we wish to tell you in total honesty that we too grieve when human lives pass away. I cannot tell you how much we hurt when we see desperation and pain on the face of another person. For we have lived through this situation – and continue to live through it every day – since your country and the United States formed an alliance and laid plans to attack Iraq.<BR/><BR/>The Prime Minister of your country, Tony Blair, said that those who carried out the explosions did so in the name of Islam. The Secretary of State of the United States, Condaleezza Rice, described the bombings as an act of barbarism. The United Nations Security Council met and unanimously condemned the event.<BR/><BR/>I would like to ask you, the free British people, to allow me to inquire: in whose name was our country blockaded for 12 years? In whose name were our cities bombed using internationally prohibited weapons? In whose name did the British army kill Iraqis and torture them? Was that in your name? Or in the name of religion? Or humanity? Or freedom? Or democracy?<BR/><BR/>What do you call the killing of more than two million children? What do you call the pollution of the soil and the water with depleted uranium and other lethal substances?<BR/><BR/>What do you call what happened in the prisons in Iraq – in Abu Ghraib, Camp Bucca and the many other prison camps? What do you call the torture of men, women, and children? What do you call tying bombs to the bodies of prisoners and blowing them apart? What do you call the refinement of methods of torture for use on Iraqi prisoners – such as pulling off limbs, gouging out eyes, putting out cigarettes on their skin, and using cigarette lighters to set fire to the hair on their heads? Does the word “barbaric” adequately describe the behavior of your troops in Iraq?<BR/><BR/>May we ask why the Security Council did not condemn the massacre in al-Amiriyah and what happened in al-Fallujah, Tal‘afar, Sadr City, and an-Najaf? Why does the world watch as our people are killed and tortured and not condemn the crimes being committed against us? Are you human beings and we something less? Do you think that only you can feel pain and we can’t? In fact it is we who are most aware of how intense is the pain of the mother who has lost her child, or the father who has lost his family. We know very well how painful it is to lose those you love.<BR/><BR/>You don’t know our martyrs, but we know them. You don’t remember them, but we remember them. You don’t cry over them, but we cry over them.<BR/><BR/>Have you heard the name of the little girl Hannan Salih Matrud? Or of the boy Ahmad Jabir Karim? Or Sa‘id Shabram?<BR/><BR/>Yes, our dead have names too. They have faces and stories and memories. There was a time when they were among us, laughing and playing. They had dreams, just as you have. They had a tomorrow awaiting them. But today they sleep among us with no tomorrow on which to wake.<BR/><BR/>We don’t hate the British people or the peoples of the world. This war was imposed upon us, but we are now fighting it in defense of our selves. Because we want to live in our homeland – the free land of Iraq – and to live as we want to live, not as your government or the American government wish.<BR/><BR/>Let the families of those killed know that responsibility for the Thursday morning London bombings lies with Tony Blair and his policies.<BR/><BR/>Stop your war against our people! Stop the daily killing that your troops commit! End your occupation of our homeland!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10616339.post-1121097510907558242005-07-11T11:58:00.000-04:002005-07-11T11:58:00.000-04:00Iyad Allawi, the former puppet of the US, now says...Iyad Allawi, the former puppet of the US, now says Iraq is right on the edge of civil war. So, now Allawi decides to tell the truth???<BR/>-roamer in michAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10616339.post-1121060775757255112005-07-11T01:46:00.000-04:002005-07-11T01:46:00.000-04:00the burden of this conflict? idiot ameriKans.the burden of this conflict? idiot ameriKans.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10616339.post-1120973336083025352005-07-10T01:28:00.000-04:002005-07-10T01:28:00.000-04:00http://home.hamptonroads.com/stories/story.cfm?sto...http://home.hamptonroads.com/stories/story.cfm?story=88719&ran=105700<BR/><BR/>Just some stuff I found. Really the solution is simple: over 50 million Americans voted for Bush. I know, without a doubt, that there are plenty of 18-39 year olds in that demographic that can serve in Iraq. There are 144,000 troops in Iraq? Surely there are enough eligible Americans who "Support the Troops" that can join the Army and double (maybe triple) the number of active duty troops. Enlist, get a commission, whatever. That way, the US wont have to stoploss anymore troops, no more recalls to active duty, and there will be plenty of "boots on the ground." And if you cannot qualify for service in the US Army (who has a waiver for EVERYTHING) encourage your son or daughter or friend or father or mother to enlist. It is a great honor to serve. Now, if you are a spouse of a deployed soldier, that is rough so I say you are doing your time, but when your spouse comes home, you should deploy. That way, you can avoid those pesky "I had it worse than you arguements."<BR/>Imagine if each military eligible citizen in the US volunteered 18 months of thier time, the burdon of this conflict would be shared by all (therefore much easier to carry).Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10616339.post-1120674172425767052005-07-06T14:22:00.000-04:002005-07-06T14:22:00.000-04:00Hurria, I am very sorry for all that you have lost...Hurria, I am very sorry for all that you have lost. <BR/>Have any of you thought about what it is like for the families that are left behind? Especially Zach's wife? I can tell you what it is like. My husband was in the Gulf during Desert Storm. We got word a few days ago that he is going to be deployed to Iraq. This time we have three little girls to tell. We have to tell them that their daddy has to go to Iraq. They have already lost their biological parents to this war. My husabnd and I adopted my nieces. <BR/>While he was in the Gulf I cried alot. I felt guilty when I did something fun. He felt guilty because he wasn't there for me. I worried about his safe return. My heart stopped each time there was a knock on the door. I feared that it was the knock that would tell me my husband was killed and how brave he was and that he died an honorable death. When he came back he wasn't the same man that left. He was withdrawn. He had violent nightmares. We couldn't sleep in the same bed for about 2 years because he feared he would hurt me in his sleep. Alot of counseling later he is the same man I married at 17. There are still nights that he can't sleep due to vivid nightmares of his time in the Gulf.<BR/>We have three girls that need their daddy. I can't show my feelings as much this time aound because I don't want to worry those innocent girls. The twins will be starting kindergarten this fall. Now their daddy can't keep his promise to them. He can't walk them to school for he will be gone. I will have to get another job to support the girls, pay the mortgage, and other assorted bills. The girls will have to go to daycare for the first time. <BR/>I am just thankful that they don't fully understand what daddy will be doing and the danger he is in.<BR/>We just thought that the military days were over when he was discharged 6 months ago. Guess we were wrong. He was called back into active duty.<BR/>I just want to know from the politicans: If this war is so important why aren't your sons, daughters, nieces, nephews, brothers, sisters, husbands, and wives over there?<BR/>Just a military wife's reality.<BR/>Zach, hope you stay safe and return home for good. My prayers are with you and your family as well as with all that are affected by this war.<BR/><BR/>BobbieAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10616339.post-1120586930939540472005-07-05T14:08:00.000-04:002005-07-05T14:08:00.000-04:00Britain is pulling out of Iraq. 18 months and they...Britain is pulling out of Iraq. 18 months and they are out. When will we do the same?<BR/>-roamer in michAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10616339.post-1120534035297200022005-07-04T23:27:00.000-04:002005-07-04T23:27:00.000-04:00I think they're assuming that because they actuall...I think they're assuming that because they actually know Zach, and know that he is going home on leave :) Have fun with Tara and the kids Zach!<BR/>~HillaryAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10616339.post-1120477529268182392005-07-04T07:45:00.000-04:002005-07-04T07:45:00.000-04:00Why is everyone assuming Zach has gone home on lea...Why is everyone assuming Zach has gone home on leave? With FOB Danger being turned over to the Iraqis, I would think he's been tasked to help his unit pack up & move to their new location.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10616339.post-1120453635004446272005-07-04T01:07:00.000-04:002005-07-04T01:07:00.000-04:00http://electroniciraq.net/news/2031.shtmlhow many ...http://electroniciraq.net/news/2031.shtml<BR/><BR/>how many gi's are felling like this, deep down in their guts?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10616339.post-1120413014175631042005-07-03T13:50:00.000-04:002005-07-03T13:50:00.000-04:00Enjoy your leave, Zack. I still think you're a JER...Enjoy your leave, Zack. I still think you're a JERK for not timing it so we could go to Dragon Con together. Bastard. :-P<BR/><BR/>Before we deployed, I left a book in your car, titled "The Atrocity Archives". Can you find it and mail it to me? Thanks.<BR/><BR/>-The CrichtonAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com