Troop morale, families angered at home, and Fmr. Sgt. Pollard

[blondeatlast]

"A tour of duty with no end in sight"
"In one Army unit, an officer described the mentality of troops. "They vent to anyone who will listen. They write letters, they cry, they yell. Many of them walk around looking visibly tired and depressed.... We feel like pawns in a game that we have no voice ."
http://www.csmonitor.com/2003/0707/p02s01-woiq.html

"When my husband first deployed, the people at work were so sweet, giving me days off, saying take whatever time I need," recalled Ms. Franklin, who answers telephones at a financial institution near the fort. "But it's not like that today. Now they look at me kind of funny and say: `Why do you need a day off now? Isn't the war over?' "

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/07/04/national/04FAMI.html?pagewanted=print&position

WOODRUFF: Let me quickly -- I want to turn all three of you to Iraq. And I want to read you a quote from "The Washington Post" this past week, a story by Anthony Shadid (ph). He's in Baghdad. He is quoting a 43-year-old U.S. Army reservist, Staff Sergeant Charles Pollard, a man on duty at a little police station in a suburb of Baghdad. And here's what Sergeant Pollard had to say.

He said, "U.S. officials need to get our out of here. We have no business being here. We will not change the culture they have in Iraq. Baghdad is so corrupted. All we are here is potential people to be killed and sitting ducks."

Bill Cohen, you know, you have got not only the Iraqi people -- many of them don't want Americans there -- you've got Americans who are saying what are we doing here? Is this a recipe for disaster?

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WOODRUFF: But I want to go back to what this Sergeant Pollard had to say. This man, when he's not over in Iraq, working with the police...

ADELMAN: He should be former Sergeant Pollard, to tell you the truth. People in uniform should not be talking that way.

http://www.mediawhoresonline.com/

On edit: better subject line

[jiacinto]

1. who is Adelman?

nt

[Eloriel]

2. An AEI - PNACer

White hair with a mustache. Often on cable news shows. May be on the Defense Policy Board, I'm not sure.

Eloriel

[Dudley_DUright]

3. Correct you are

He is a member of the DPB.

http://www.cooperativeresearch.org/organization/profiles/defensepolicyboard.html#1%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20Background.

[Bushfire]

4. Chickenhawk with a flag tie

on most of the time, sporting the same red, white, and blue tie. I quickly change the channel knowing he will spout lies. If he wasn't AEI, and a PNACer he wouldn't be tapped to do the talk show scene IMHO. Another wingnut who makes me want to :puke: Is he coughing up his blood money now for the families who have fallen in this unjust war??? Anyone who pushed it has blood on their hands. :grr:

[Tinoire]

5. Pentagon's Defense Policy Board under Perle

Kenneth Adelman - aka the man who said Iraq would be a "cakewalk"

http://www.cnn.com/2003/ALLPOLITICS/03/26/column.novak.opinion.cakewalk/

Assistant to U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld from 1975 to 1977 & a U.N. ambassador and Director of Arms Control under Reagan.

One of many Pentagon Advisors, Adelman also sits on the Pentagon's Defense Policy Board under Perle, and is another extremist advisor, who totally supports the war against Iraq.