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    Warrior Joe and the Boots on the Ground: "When are we going to get out of here?"

    By oldenGoldenDecoy on Fri, 06/01/2007 - 5:22pm |

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    Geez ... At least he was dressed to look the part.

    I hope he had plenty of sunscreen . . .

    Read on . . .

    BAGHDAD, Iraq - Spc. David Williams, 22, of Boston, Mass., had two note cards in his pocket Wednesday afternoon as he waited for Sen. Joseph Lieberman. Williams serves in the 82nd Airborne Division from Fort Bragg, N.C., the first of the five "surge" brigades to arrive in Iraq, and he was chosen to join the Independent from Connecticut for lunch at a U.S. field base in Baghdad.

    The night before, 30 other soldiers crowded around him with questions for the senator.

    He wrote them all down. At the top of his note card was the question he got from nearly every one of his fellow soldiers:

    "When are we going to get out of here?"

    Read on read on . . .

    >Lieberman talks to troops in Baghdad
    Leila Fadel/McClatchy | May 30, 2007

    ~OGD~

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