Why Are We Here?

A Soldier in Iraq Asks in Despair: Why Are We Here? By Donald C. Hudson, Jr. Clarksville, Tennessee Online

Tuesday 29 May 2007
After watching his roommate fatally wounded in a roadside bombing, an Army private wonders why the lives of good men are being lost when the Iraqis pose no threat to us and don't want us there.
Baghdad - My name is Donald Hudson Jr. I have been serving our country's military actively for the last three years. I am currently deployed to Baghdad on Forward Operating Base Loyalty, where I have been for the last four and a half months.
I came here as part of the first wave of this so called "troop surge", but so far it has effectively done nothing to quell insurgent violence. I have seen the rise in violence between the Sunni and Shiite. This country is in the middle of a civil war that has been on going since the seventh century.
Why are we here when this country still to date does not want us here? Why does our president's personal agenda consume him so much, that he can not pay attention to what is really going on here?
Let me tell you a story. On May 10, I was out on a convoy mission to move barriers from a market to a joint security station. It was no different from any other night, except the improvised explosive device that hit our convoy this time, actually pierced through the armor of one of our trucks. The truck was immediately engulfed in flames, the driver lost control and wrecked the truck into one of the buildings lining the street. I was the driver of the lead truck in our convoy; the fifth out of six was the one that got hit. All I could hear over the radio was a friend from the sixth truck screaming that the fifth truck was burning up real bad, and that they needed fire extinguishers real bad. So I turned my truck around and drove through concrete barriers to get to the burning truck as quickly as I could. I stopped 30 meters short of the burning truck, got out and ripped my fire extinguisher out of its holder, and ran to the truck. I ran past another friend of mine on the way to the burning truck, he was screaming something but I could not make it out. I opened the driver's door to the truck and was immediately overcome by the flames. I sprayed the extinguisher into the door, and then I saw my roommate's leg. He was the gunner of that truck. His leg was across the driver's seat that was on fire and the rest of his body was further in the truck. My fire extinguisher died and I climbed into the truck to attempt to save him. I got to where his head was, in the back passenger-side seat. I grabbed his shoulders and attempted to pull him from the truck out the driver's door. I finally got him out of the truck head first. His face had been badly burned. His leg was horribly wounded. We placed him on a spine board and did our best to attempt "Buddy Aid". We heard him trying to gasp for air. He had a pulse and was breathing, but was not responsive. He was placed into a truck and rushed to the "Green Zone", where he died within the hour. His name was Michael K. Frank. He was 36 years old. He was a great friend of mine and a mentor to most of us younger soldiers here.

Now I am still here in this country wondering why, and having to pick up the pieces of what is left of my friend in our room. I would just like to know what is the true reason we are here? This country poses no threat to our own. So why must we waste the lives of good men on a country that does not give a damn about itself? Most of my friends here share my views, but do not have the courage to say anything.
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Donald C. Hudson Jr. is a private assigned to the 1st Brigade Special Troops Battalion, 1st Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division.

Please answer that question and I will forward all of your answers to him. You can send them privately through email or you can post them in comments. He asked a valid question. There is NO reason we are in Iraq. They were NOT involved in Sept. 11, 2001. This young guy is probably now in danger for speaking up. Can anyone tell him the truth? Not the usual rhetoric??

Donald, I hope that someone can get the resident to answer this but Cindy Sheehan spent years trying. I guess it's your turn. Come live in the ditch outside his house. Maybe he'll have more respect for a grieving soldier than a grieving mother. I just don't know.

Can someone please answer Donald with a REAL REAL REAL answer?

WHAT THE HELL are we doing in Iraq?

This morning Bush said he envisions being in Iraq (yeah like you'll ever find HIM there) for fifty years just like South Korea. Wow, isn't he a visionary?? I guess that's why all the billions for the largest embassy in the world and also the pallets of cash that disappeared into Iraq.

(Wait, pallets of cash --- now that IS beginning to sound like a place Bush and Cheney would want to be)

But, forget all that for now and just answer Donald's question, if you will. Admit to him that there is no REAL reason for war in Iraq. It's a BUSH agenda being served. After all, he's supposedly fighting for your freedom; the least you can do is respect him and answer this simple question.

UPDATE: Here's a stellar idea from Blast OFF, who is only like the smartest guy in the world

and who also gives credit to the other folks who brought this to our attention.

Let's invoke the 25th Amendment. Let's figure out how to get this done. He really is NOT capable of running this country, his ranch or even making speeches. His warranty is bad, maybe.

Please keep shining your headlights and sign the petition and help a country out here. Help this young man and all the other men and women with him come home safely.

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