My Time in Iraq...sort of...

I have never been in Iraq.

I listen to pundits, read news reports, just like you. I have also been watching a lot of Youtube. There is a ton of video from Iraq, produced by all sides. You can watch, from the jihadists point of view, an attack on an American outpost. You can watch Marines clearing houses. You can watch contract drivers under fire. To the technically hooked up you can pretty much see whatever you want to of the mess of Iraq. And you also get to see the comments for each video, since all have attached posts. Usually combat footage has comments like this:

US poster:
We should kill all you F'ing rag heads!

Islamic poster:
All of you satanic Americans will die! Death to America!

US poster 2:
F' you! You F'ing camel jockey!

Islamic poster 2:
F' you! You F'ing American terrorist!

and so on...

Rarely is there much debate on the situation. Soldiers, on both sides, who are in the zone are the least politically correct of the bunch. They have no time for being diplomatic. Basically whether the soldier is American or a Jihadi the messages are pretty clear. "We're gonna kill you! We want to kill you!" There is no "lets work together to build a better world." War brings out the worst in everybody. I know I would fall easily into the warrior mentality should I end up in Iraq. You do not have a choice in a war zone. They have no time to empathize or sympathize. Only kill or be killed.

Thanks too all the assholes who brought this upon us. In the words of YouTube posters:

F' you! You F'ing F's!


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