"What is victory supposed to look like? Every time we turn around and go in a new area there's somebody new waiting to kill us," said Sgt. 1st Class Herbert Gill, 29, of Pulaski, Tenn., as his Humvee rumbled down a dark Baghdad highway one evening last week. "Sunnis and Shiites have been fighting for thousands of years, and we're not going to change that overnight."
"Once more raids start happening, they'll (insurgents) melt away," said Gill, who serves with the 1st Infantry Division in east Baghdad. "And then two or three months later, when we leave and say it was a success, they'll come back."
Also notable:
"I think some people in America don't want to know about all this violence, about all the killings. The people back home are shielded from it; they get it sugar-coated."This soldier is clearly not a fan of Putz and the rest of the "mainstream media is losing the war and emboldening the enemy" crowd.
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