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...Over several hours and several conferences, they went back and forth on whether to do it or not. Barker was pushing hard, and Green was game, but Cortez was waffling. Finally Cortez said, "No, f___ it, this is crazy. F___ this. There is no way we are doing this...
...five or six 12-oz. cans of the stuff from an Iraqi army soldier at the very reasonable price of $5 per can. There was some bottled whiskey on hand, too. They mixed the whiskey in an empty liter water bottle with some Rip-Its, a carbonated energy drink. Green liked his whiskey straight. Over several hands of cards, they got drunk as they talked about all the things they usually talked about. Girls, cars, music, sports, how much they hated this place, how much they hated hadj...
...Absolutely, Green replied. "It don't make any difference to me," Green said. "A hadji is a hadji...
During one of the rounds, Cortez popped up and said, "F___ it, we are going to do this thing." He outlined the mission and he divvied up the duty assignments just like a legit patrol. He and Barker would take the girl, Green would kill the rest of the family, Spielman would pull guard and Howard would stay back and man the radio. He told everyone to grab their rifles and get ready to head...
...this, let's go before I change my mind." He and Barker started changing their clothes, putting on their black, silk-weight Polartec tops and bottoms and balaclava thermal face masks to obscure their faces. They wanted to look like insurgents, they said, and ordered Spielman and Green to do the same. Green objected, saying he wasn't changing. At least take your patches off, Cortez said, which Green did. Spielman only wore his uniform bottoms and a T-shirt while Green kept his whole uniform on. Cortez insisted they cover their faces so Green tied a T-shirt around...