winter Soldier Jason Hurd on DN-IVAW part 2

Jason Hurd's comment-pls read" At Winter Soldier, I reported my own experience and the information that came to me about the shooting.  I also gave my own opinion that the shooting was indiscriminant and unnecessary; some in my unit may disagree with me.  That being said, this incident did cause some debate within the unit about whether or not the gunner over-reacted.  Whether the gunner over-reacted is actually trivial in my argument.  My argument was that we do react out of fear imposed by the chain of command and that soldiers shouldn't be placed in these situations to begin with. Finally, I have an addition to my testimony that should be mentioned here.  I in no way intended to indict or defame the character of my fellow soldiers with my testimony (a point that I failed to make clear at Winter Soldier).  We all did what we had to do to get home alive and I have the utmost respect for the people in my unit.  My only intentions are to prevent other soldiers from seeing the things that I have seen and to keep Iraqis from suffering any longer."  

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[paulid84]

A liberating force did come to America to help us win our liberty and independence against our own kind(the British)... France.

[RIProgressive]

But they didn't stay for 6 years!

[MrJap983]

people need to start paying attention to what is going on. It takes a lot of guts to stand up for what is right and i commend these men for speaking up. The media likes to project all Iraq people as terrorists cause they are fighting against our soldiers but what would we be doing if some other country came into canada or the usa and decided they didnt like the way we were running things we would all be standing on our streets defending our rights with guns and trying to preserve our way of life

[alex22a2]

I wouldn't want this guy watching my back in combat.

[drewren1231]

russvoboda, was obviously an american soldier, adn has fought for this country. and you say "back to Russia".

unprovoked disrespect

[drewren1231]

you are obviously one of those blame it on bush, liberals. i myself do not agree with the extent that we have fought this war but it is wrong for the whole democratic party to blame it on bush, we have a congress for a reason, which democrats hold the majority in.

also, about iran, they have a crazy leader, anti-American and if you disagree, you don't know anything about him. he is allowing terrorists into his country to shelter them from American forces in Afghanistan and iraq.

[RajvosaHZ]

russsvoboda

Back to Russia !!!

[RIProgressive]

He figures- hell they are all Haji's anyway.

[RIProgressive]

Finally someone getting to it- Bush & Cheney are responsible. If you liked their show, wait till you see trigger happy McCain- Bush hid behind his dad's political skirt & Cheney invented new deferment techniques, McCain went to Nam w a vengeance, Deliriously he dreams of Bomb Bomb Bomb Iran & can't tell the insurgents fm Al Quesa w/out Lieberman around.

[RIProgressive]

I am with you 100%- so is Jason. Please read the comments form him that I added in the text box.