IF YOU GIVE A DAMN ABOUT OUR TROOPS PLEASE!!!!!!!!

[LynnTheDem]

Platoon defies orders in Iraq

A 17-member Army Reserve platoon with troops from Jackson and around the Southeast deployed to Iraq is under arrest for refusing a "suicide mission" to deliver fuel, the troops' relatives said Thursday.

The soldiers refused an order on Wednesday to go to Taji, Iraq — north of Baghdad — because their vehicles were considered "deadlined" or extremely unsafe, said Patricia McCook of Jackson, wife of Sgt. Larry O. McCook.

The platoon is normally escorted by armed Humvees and helicopters, but did not have that support Wednesday...

http://www.clarionledger.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20041015/NEWS01/410150366/1002

WE MUST HAVE NATIONAL MEDIA AND NATIONAL OUTRAGE!!!

MAKE BUSH SUPPORT AND SUPPLY OUR TROOPS!!! PLEASE!!! THIS IS NOT A PARTISAN ISSUE!!!

[proud patriot]

1. has operation truth been notified ?

http://www.optruth.org/main.cfm

[Qanisqineq]

2. tell me what to do

and I'll try to do what I can

I give a damn, my husband was once in that hell and will be going back sometime in 2005.

[LynnTheDem]

4. Email the media...

Pick a few from Skinner's list...email friends and family...email or call your local govt reps...email other boards, bloggers, whoever you can think of.

I give a damn too altho my hubby is out of that hell now, but my nephew is still there. I hope we STOP this damn war before your hubby has to go back...FINGERS CROSSED for you both!

[sniffa]

3. but that's john kerry's fauLt, not bush's

[aquart]

5. Sent it to my lists. (Small though they are.)

[Qanisqineq]

6. the link now gives me a page "service unavailable"

[deutsey]

7. Down the memory hole?

:evilfrown:

[LynnTheDem]

8. Server is full; here's another link

http://www.hattiesburgamerican.com/news/stories/20041015/localnews/1420516.html