I will never trust any of them again.

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http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/cg..._id=2002925025&slug=snomarine12&date=20060412

Christopher H. Sheppard is a former Marine captain who served two tours of duty in Iraq as a combat engineer. He currently is finishing his master's degree in mass communication and lives in Marysville.

 

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Reading his interpretations from direct experience is interesting, albeit he presents a totally biased position.

I would like to read more of the experience of service personnel who have drawn the same conclusions (including any positives that they saw in the occupation there). Because the oppositie point of view is often based on the good that may have been done in developing or redeveloping infrastructure in Iraq, eg schools, and the spinmasters have the strawclingers highlighting such "positives" as saving graces of US intervention.

I'm also not a fan of Sheppard's budgetary dogma. How can it be possible to believe the effort in Iraq has a cost of an "official" $250 billion?

More power to him as he looks more broadly than his own experiences.