Prometheus 6   

Is it brought on yet, Mr. President? Huh? Huh?

Attacks Leave U.S. Soldier Dead, 18 Hurt
By AMY WALDMAN 9:02 AM ET
The attacks seemed to affirm the comments of the commander of allied forces in Iraq, who acknowledged that the United States-led coalition in Iraq was still at war.

Anger Rises for Families of Troops in Iraq
By JEFFREY GETTLEMAN

ORT HOOD, Tex., July 3 � Luisa Leija was in bed the other morning, she recalled, when her 9-year-old daughter bounded in the room, saying, "Mommy, mommy, there's a man in uniform at the door."

Ms. Leija, the wife of a young artillery captain in Iraq, threw on a robe and took a deep breath. She dashed to the door, thinking: "This is not happening to me. This can't be happening to me."

A soldier in full camouflage was on the doorstep. It was a neighbor locked out of his house.

Ms. Leija is still upset. The panic has passed, but not the weariness. Or the anger. Anger that her husband, Capt. Frank Leija, has not come home yet, even though President Bush declared two months ago that "major combat operations in Iraq have ended." Anger that the end of that stage has not meant the beginning of peace, that the Army has assigned new duties for her husband and his men that have nothing to do with toppling Saddam Hussein.

And anger that the talk in Washington is not of taking troops out of Iraq, but of sending more in.

posted by Prometheus 6 at 7/4/2003 09:43:12 AM |