To: tejek who wrote (164113 ) 3/13/2003 10:54:26 AM From: hmaly Read Replies (2) | Respond to Ted RE... What I find incomprehensible is the growing sense that people are looking at this not as a nasty job that perhaps we must reluctantly do, but as something to be regarded with pleasure, delight, and anticipation. It comes out in the words: “let’s roll”, “let’s do it”, “let’s take ‘em out”. How many of you have ever been up to your elbows in human blood? Not the nice blood you get when you cut yourself around the edges, the stringy lumpy stuff you get when a human body comes up against a flying chunk of metal? How many have held a young man in their lap and felt the hiss and gurgle as his lungs filled up with blood? How many have tried to treat a multiple shrapnel case with a first aid kit? Smelled human bodies decomposing? Seen the dead stare in the eyes of children forced to see what no human should ever see? In short, how many of you actually have any idea what happens in a war, when you get behind all that bland technotalk and cable TV coverage? There are sometimes reasons why such things must be done; there is never a reason to feel good about it.
