Guardsman: ...they will not work with us. I don't ever see it happening.

[ProSense]

Guardsmen: Iraq a minute-by-minute battle

By KIMBERLY HEFLING, Associated Press Writer
1 hour, 35 minutes ago

HATTIESBURG, Miss. - They are returning home with a sense of accomplishment, but also with feelings of anger and frustration, even despair.

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"You start realizing how vulnerable you really are all the time," Walls says. "You're not safe anywhere in that damn place, and that's a bad feeling. Too many guys got hurt or killed just walking to chow ... or running to the bathroom, and they don't come back."

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He wonders, though, about the future of the Anbar region. The people "will not be pacified, they will not work with us. I don't ever see it happening," he says.

Walls says insurgents wear civilian clothes and use women and children as shields.

"If you're going to fight the enemy, there are two ways to look at it. You either become just like them, fight them on their own terms or you take the heavy burden like we're doing it right now and it's going to cost American lives. It's a hell of a price to pay but if you fight them on their terms, you're no better than them.

"That's the true dilemma of the soldier right now, to get his sanity and keep his morals, keep his integrity. And it's hard. It's a ... minute-by-minute struggle ... over in Iraq."

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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060624/ap_on_re_us/iraq_conflicted_soldiers

[wakeme2008]

1. Same Same Vietnam....

You were never 100% safe...

[Brigid]

2. Viet Nam all over again.

Yup, yup. We never learn. Or rather, the war hawks never learn.

[kentuck]

3. Iraqis , like all Arabs, do not take kindly to invaders of their country

They don't even like foreign Arabs or Arabs from neighboring counties. Why would we think they would love Americans??

[Brigid]

4. Exactly.

They see us as invaders. It's as simple as that. And we're not going to get around that no matter what we do.