"I shouldn't even have come"

[samplegirl]

AP: Father of Slain Soldier Losing Taste for Revenge in Iraq

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AL-ASAD, Iraq In the desert chill, on the lonely nighttime roads of Iraq, Joe Johnson looks out over his machine gun and thinks of Justin. It was on Easter morning 2004 that a chaplain and a colonel appeared on Joe and Jan Johnson's Georgia doorstep with the news. Justin, the boy Joe had fished and hunted with, the soldier son who'd gone off to Iraq a month earlier, was suddenly dead at 22, killed by a roadside bomb planted in a Baghdad slum.

Today it's Joe who mans the M-240 atop a Humvee, warily watching the sides of the road, an unlikely Army corporal at 48, a father who came here for revenge, a Christian missionary on a crusade against Islam, and a man who, after six months at war, is ready to go home.

"I shouldn't even have come," he now says. And if he leaves bloody Iraq with no blood on his hands, he says, that's fine, too.

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"I really don't want to kill innocent people," he now says. "I don't want to live with that the rest of my life."

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"If I go home and didn't kill a terrorist, it's not going to ruin my life," he said. "Maybe I'd just as soon not. I don't know what it would do to my head."




http://www.mediainfo.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1002199112

[BlueStorm]

1. Alot of people feel this way about Muslims

It gets me mad. I guess this man at least has a conscience and decided that it isn't in the best of his, or anyone's interests.

Blue

[400Years]

2. Always look before you leap

[rustydog]

3. What is sad is the terrorist thrown in the statement

There were no 9/11 terrorists in Iraq. it is so sad his son died for that lie and he went to Iraq for revenge for that lie.