Word: deserter
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...While the endless expanse of the Iraqi desert is depressing, it is not the source of my gloom as I trail American forces into Iraq. This melancholy is rooted in the apparent hopelessness of the environment. Anything more then a cursory glimpse around reveals that the Iraqi people, at least those living in this region, are completely beaten. Signs of physical decay and the population's broken spirits lie everywhere...
...Everywhere along the route, further signs of government perversion were clearly visible. Dead farming plots have been reclaimed by the desert because no one cared to make a simple repair to an irrigation lever; hundreds of buildings begun and abandoned, leaving all the necessary materials to rot; people living in ruined brick hovels despite the nearby presence of hundreds of bricks. The people of Southern Iraq may not be able to attain Western standards of prosperity, but they have the immediate resources to make dramatic improvements to their current situation if they were inspired...
...Cornum, her voice laced with gentle sarcasm, calls it the "famous sexual assault." It happened in the back of a truck, somewhere behind Iraqi lines in February 1991. A flight surgeon on a downed Blackhawk, she and Sgt. Troy Dunlap had been taken captive. As they bumped along a desert road in the dark, her Iraqi captor pushed her muddy, bloodied hair out of her face - and kissed her. Pulling a blanket over them, he unzipped her flight suit and started fondling...
...Captain Jorge Melendez and 1st Sgt. William Mitchell quickly spread the vehicles among the berms and along the riverfront. The S.A.W. and two 40-Bravo heavy machine gunners took positions at the end of the bridge, pointing into town. But Charlie Rock has been driving all night through the desert, there's traffic on the horizon, and it's only a few minutes before the men are lying in the sun and "Rock Doc", the medic Track, is filling the air with...
...However, says the U.N. inspector, ?the Iraqis have problems delivering their WMD in a militarily effective manner.? He reveals that more than 70% of Baghdad's declared and suspected WMD were in ?aerial? form-meaning they were designed to be delivered by aircraft. Since Operation Desert Storm, the Iraqi Air Force has almost ceased to exist. The U.N. inspector also added that any biological weapons that Iraq might still possess would ?not cause much of a problem for the U.S. forces.? He explained that the Pentagon is familiar with most or all of Baghdad's suspected bio weapons...