Soldiers Deployed To Iraq Spending More Time Playing Than Fighting

Proof • October 21, 2009

It’s almost like we won the war or something.

CONTINGENCY OPERATING BASE ADDER, Iraq — Pfc. Adrian Vesik heard that war could be hell.
He was happy to discover when he arrived in Iraq earlier this year that his war experience also would include salsa dancing, yoga and martial-arts classes.
“When I signed up for the Army, I thought I was going to be a hero — go out and do some fighting,” says Vesik, 19, during a break at a Filipino-Okinawan jujitsu class. “I haven’t come close to doing anything that I was trained to do. I work, maybe, four to five hours a day. I have time to try all these new things. It’s not so bad.”
Because of new rules that require Iraqi approval for all U.S. missions, and a general decline in violence nationwide, many of the 117,000 U.S. troops stationed in Iraq say they now have more idle time than at any previous point in the six-year war.
Combat is still a daily reality in some parts of Iraq, and U.S. troops are being killed here at a rate of about one a week.
But for many troops in places such as this large military base in southern Iraq, traditional soldiering such as kicking down doors and searching for roadside bombs has at least partly given way to book clubs, karaoke nights, sports and distance-learning university programs.

Sounds like it may be time to re-deploy some of these soldiers from Iraq to Afghanistan.

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http://Array sayanything-4625

But that’s the “Good War”! The one that’s “crucial” to our national defense!

All kidding aside, if we are going to dither around without a strategy we do need to bring the guy’s home. If we are in to win, then we should stay. Get off the fence one way or another.
robert108

Cut and run from the terrorists? When we retreat, they advance.
Do you want to fight them over there, or fight them here at home?
jimmypop

I hope they don’t get sent to some Detroit hellhole suburb.

it would be safer than philly…. more americans die every day in philly than in iraq. who has leading that town again?
sayanything-4625

To clarify my statement a little. Try to build a better Iraqi society that may be an ally or the status quo where Iraq was an enemy.

Any society might be our ally today and then vote in a regime that becomes our enemy. See Germany in WWII.
sayanything-4625

What are you smoking? Let me play someone with common sense. You would rather fight someone here than attack them at their source? What kind of stupidity is that? Arrogant and selfish, what a jerk!
sayanything-14856

They still lucky Iraq didn’t attack their bases..if that will happen, then your own wish will granted to you to become a hero..That’s your primary reason isn’t? Soldier of a new millennium..
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I hope they don’t get sent to some Detroit hellhole suburb.
sayanything-4625

If we have to yes. What’s the alternative? Try to build a better Iraqi society or the status quo?
sayanything-14849

Why not just bring them all home?
robert108

con: Here’s a reality check for you: AQ declared war on us during Clinton. Radical Islam declared war on the rest of the world 1300 years ago. You might want to update your obsolete idea of war between nation states, because it no longer describes reality. Every country that gives aid and shelter to AQ and radical islamofascists is part of the war against us, and thus is subject to our efforts to defend us and our way of life against our enemies.
That’s reality. If they can’t take the consequences, they shouldn’t side with AQ and the radical islamofascists. Actions have consequences.
robert108

BTW, we still have troops in Kosovo who were sent there during Clinton’s War.
sayanything-7134

draw down there and send them to Afganistan
sayanything-7134

Like I said devils advocate. War sucks, is necessary , but sucks. There are consequences when you fight a war, innocents get killed, buildings get destroyed lives are disrupted. We are in a blood feud. They attacked us, we attack them, they attack us and on it goes. Same thing happened with Israel and Palestinians, Northern Ireland etc. In Iraq we decided to go in set up a democracy, nation build and in the process wiped out the infrastructure. Great we have a democracy going, so what happens when they vote in some sort of grand mullah who hates the US. Do we go back in..
sayanything-3444

Their counter-terrorism training would come in handy there.
sayanything-1317

What happened in Palestine is that the Muslims tried to eradicate the Jews and failed. And they keep trying because that is their only goal. The Israelis have, however, made every concession they can to get peace. Describing it as a deadly game of one-upsmanship is far removed from reality.

And secular powers used the church to put people to the sword, not vice versa.
sayanything-7134

Let me play the devils advocate. So you are saying that it is better to destroy someone elses country: homes, men, women, children, infrastructure than fight them here. Mighty arrogant and selfish of you.
sayanything-5621

Afghanistan? Bring them home!
sayanything-7134

And Radical Christianity put alot of people to the sword. At least you got the radical Islam right.
sayanything-7134

yes young men from our local guard unit are there

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