ULM student killed while serving in Iraq

[jxnmsdemguy65]

Source: Monroe (La.) News Star

Jordan Tuttle, a 2006 graduate of Ouachita Parish High School and a student at the University of Louisiana at Monroe, was killed last week while serving with U.S. armed forces in Iraq.

Tuttle's MySpace page said he was 22 years old.

According to his Facebook page, he had recently arrived at Forward Operating Base Prosperity inside the heavily fortified U.S. and Iraqi government stronghold known as the Green Zone in the heart of Baghdad.

The U.S. Department of Defense has yet to confirm or release any details on Tuttle's death.

Read more: http://www.thenewsstar.com/article/20100707/NEWS01/7070311/1002/news01/ULM-student-killed-while-serving-in-Iraq

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Another needless death in the service of Big Oil. Parents, please protect your kids from military recruiters. Folks, it's time to reign in the military industrial complex and put our people back to work!

[grantcart]

1. Each loss is a terrible tragedy

Iraq was a war of aggression and should have been oppossed even if there were no casualties.


However your editorial comments that Jordan died in the service of big oil is not borne by facts.


Under the system advised by the US government and installed by the Iraq government bids for Iraqi oil was conducted on TV.


US oil companies did not receive any of the contracts

http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1948787,00.html

Those who claim that the U.S. invaded Iraq in 2003 to get control of the country's giant oil reserves will be left scratching their heads by the results of last weekend's auction of Iraqi oil contracts: Not a single U.S. company secured a deal in the auction of contracts that will shape the Iraqi oil industry for the next couple of decades. Two of the most lucrative of the multi-billion-dollar oil contracts went to two countries which bitterly opposed the U.S. invasion — Russia and China — while even Total Oil of France, which led the charge to deny international approval for the war at the U.N. Security Council in 2003, won a bigger stake than the Americans in the most recent auction. " certainly answers the theory that the war was for the benefit of big U.S. oil interests," says Alex Munton, Middle East oil analyst for the energy consultancy Wood Mackenzie, whose clients include major U.S. companies. "That has not been demonstrated by what has happened this week."

Read more: http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1948787,00.html#ixzz0t0yL7z1D



As oil is fungible it is not far an exaggeration to say that his loss can be laid at the feet of the consumerist oil guzzling public that refuses to reconsider its own dependency of oil.

[Soylent Brice]

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[Ozymanithrax]

3. He was 22 years old, and an adult.

He made a choice to serve in Iraq. I honor his choice. His death is tragic for his community.