The Sioux City Journal listens to Rumsfeld
Did you read the Monday, 14 March, Journal article titled "So many good things are happening"? Reporter Michele Linck interviews U.S. Army Capt. Dawn Lenz Longwill, a 1993 East High graduate, who is home from Iraq. Capt. Longwill had been stationed at one of Saddam's palaces converted to division headquarters. It's hot, intense duty but there are Filipinos and Sri Lankans (Halliburton contractors?) to cook the chow and do the laundry. Capt. Longwill's Iraqi exposure seems to be limited to one convoy a week and Iraqis working at the headquarters. Sadly, one Iraqi couple were brutally killed by insurgents solely because they worked for Americans.
Out of the blue Capt. Longwill states that good things are happening in Iraq - schools are open, hospitals have doctors and medicine again (after we bombed the hell out of them?!?). There is no indication that Capt. Longwill knows any of this first hand. What is clearly indicated is that Sec. Rumsfeld visited Capt. Longwill's headquarters and urged the media to report more on "the progress being made." Capt. Longwill and Michele Linck have done their duty! I just hope that our "democratization" of Iraq is going as well as Sec. Rumsfeld and the Sioux City Journal want us to believe.
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"Everything you read in a newspaper is true, except that which you've personally experienced yourself."
I find it extremely disturbing that Capt Longwill's article written to express the positive things that are happening in Iraq was reduced to political propaganda by a left-wing activist. Go back to your Cindy Sheehan coloring book in the corner and keep your TV tuned to CNN to rah-rah stroke your blue ego. I would say that living in that country for a year, traveling on those roads weekly and seeing the schools and hospitals go up as she routinely drove by was experiencing it first hand. Don’t worry about being away from your family for an entire year because you don’t have to. Sit at home in your big comfy house and bask in the protection she and her fellow soldiers provide for you. Thank you Capt Longwill for what you did for us and for an oppressed people. Most of us are grateful.are providing to you.
I know Dawn. She tells things like they are. She took over my platoon in Korea back in 1999. No nonsense get the job done soldier who was a person to her troops as well. If she sees progress in Iraq - then that's what is happening. CONUS politicians and the anti-bush news media are skewing everything for their own gains (to our own demise)
Stay tough Dawn - you'll make COL soon.
Mike
CDR
SigDet
3/5th Special Forces Group (A)
1999 - 2001
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