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Crowman2009

(2,494 posts)
13. +1
Sun May 28, 2023, 06:48 PM
May 2023

Frankly most Iraq veterans like myself hated our deployments, and stopped giving a fuck about whether we were going to win this war since it felt like a boondoggle to funnel taxpayer money to no-bid contractors. Some even thought that if we lived in Iraq our whole lives in the blowing sand and extreme heat, we'd resort to joining the Shia insurgency as well. All we cared about was coming home in one piece.

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