Hamill Says Iraq Mission Must Continue

[Barrett808]

Hamill Says Iraq Mission Must Continue
By KATHY HANRAHAN, Associated Press Writer

MACON, Miss. - Former hostage Thomas Hamill, back home Saturday after his three-week ordeal in Iraq, credited God and worldwide support for his survival and said the rebuilding mission that nearly cost him his life must continue.

"I knew I was going to make it. I knew I was coming home," Hamill told reporters before a prayer vigil held in his honor at the Noxubee County Court House. "I told the Lord to pick the time and place."

Speaking publicly for the first time since his early-morning return to Mississippi, Hamill said daily, multiple prayers reinforced faith that he would survive captivity.

The truck driver was wounded and captured when his convoy was ambushed April 9. He escaped May 2 from a farmhouse about 50 miles north of Baghdad, squeezing open a sheet-metal door and running a half-mile to U.S. military vehicles he had heard rumbling outside.

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http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20040509/ap_on_re_us/hamill_home&cid=519&ncid=1480

[movonne]

1. Do we give a shit what Hamill has to say.

[Paradise]

13. NO!!! n/t

[demoman123]

14. Nup. n/t

[rebellious woman]

18. NO!

[Just Me]

26. Pour guy hasn't a clue,...he was trying to survive,...

,...in a country that ain't rich on jobs,...buy has very, very (disgustingly) wealthy CEOs being SERVED by this administration which is greedy, could care less about the worth or MERIT of any other human being.

He was also likely "coached",...by his employer,...for his own survival.

Imagine that?

[Jacobin]

2. Tell us about the torture, Mr. Hammill.................

[saigon68]

24. THE HANGING CORPSES ----AN AMERICAN TRADITION

SPEAKING OF THE MERCENARIES



work of Iraqi people against mercenary invaders


SPEAKING OF LYNCHING IN AMERICA (stringing up charred corpses in AMERIKA)





Spectators at the lynching of Jesse Washington, one man raised for a better view.

May 16, 1916, Waco, Texas.




Charred corpse of Jesse Washington suspended from utility pole.

May 16, 1916, Waco, Texas.


work of white mob in disciplining an uppity Negro

[Catholic Sensation]

3. this guy's opinion is worth the same as my neighbors': zilch

couldn't care less what this guy has to say about a matter in which he's about as involved as my neighbor's 16 year old daughter.

[tabasco]

4. He wants to keep his job, I assume.

Perhaps in a different place.

[still_one]

5. Hey, if he thinks the mission is so important, why doesn't he go back?

[Catholic Sensation]

6. or why didn't he stay?

;)

[LittleApple81]

7. This is sickening. He is TORTURED because they brandished

weapons at him and lied to him about releasing him? Are the people at the press CRAZY? What we did to the Iraqis is "Abuse" and to this guy "Torture?"
And then he wants to go back? Well, I bet not after the "Leftist" movie industry sign a deal for this hero's report. Why don't they film the regular Iraqi citizens who were tortured and then pay them a million.

[Catholic Sensation]

9. quote from the piece

They tortured him by falsely telling him he would be released within several days, shackling him, brandishing weapons and threatening his life, he said.

See if they only dragged him around whereever he was being held, stripped him naked and piled him on top of naked hostages, or put electrodes on him, it would have been an Iraqi frat prank. :eyes: this country is so fucking stupid.

[Jacobin]

8. Majored in truck driving, minored in Middle Eastern Affairs

Obviously a great source of propaganda.

[leesa]

10. What an ignorant POS this man is...to bad they let him go

Another warped Fundie.

[bowens43]

11. Who cares what Hamill says?

He's a freaking truck driver! Go to any truck stop in America and you find a room filled with red neck truck drivers wanting to kill the 'ragheads'.

What a moron.

[saigon68]

12. Who the FUCK CARES what this YAAHOO has to say

Went there for $125,000.00 per year and got his sorry ass captured.

Well at least they didn't ride him like a mule and make him MASTURBATE FOR THE CAMERA

OR SHOVE A BROOM HANDLE UP HIS RECTUM


MERCENARY SCUM--- paid by the TAXPAYERS

[playahata1]

15. And folks wanted to give this guy a pass

simply because he was some "poor farmer who lost his land and needed the money." Now we see his TRUE colors.

[amber dog democrat]

16. That's right, Stay the Course.

and just throw more money and lives into this quagmire.
This is a serious case of cognative dissonance if ever I saw one.

[nadinbrzezinski]

17. Sounds like his employer got in the act

or shall we say, Karl Rove? The Lynch special went sour on them,
after all

[Lars39]

19. This guy has become the darling of the Southern Baptists...

http://www.sbc.net/redirect.asp?url=http://www.bpnews.net/

[Disturbed]

20. Good Ole boy

Another Capitalist success story.

[Lars39]

21. Yes, that's how they look on him. Blech.

[The_Casual_Observer]

22. 10-4 good buddy

They left the idiot to fend for himself in that shack after it was determined he was a waste of their time. I doubt the story of the heroic escape. I wonder when his book is coming out?

[daleo]

23. All this stuff about praying is not news

""I knew I was going to make it. I knew I was coming home," Hamill told reporters before a prayer vigil held in his honor at the Noxubee County Court House. "I told the Lord to pick the time and place."

Speaking publicly for the first time since his early-morning return to Mississippi, Hamill said daily, multiple prayers reinforced faith that he would survive captivity. "

I wish they would either leave it out, or at least put it at the end of the article where it belongs. It conveys no useful information.

[Skittles]

25. why are so many religious people so f***ing arrogant?

God watched over him - a war profiteering asshole - but - what - never has watched over the THOUSANDS OF IRAQI CHILDREN WHO HAVE DIED?