[Dean's World] Dave Price: Apparently I've Been Busy

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Posted by Dave Price:
Apparently I've Been Busy
http://www.deanesmay.com/posts/1146153820.shtml


   From CBS News:

     Dave Price In Baghdad 
     For the past week, Price has gone from Kuwait to Iraq's Sunni
     Triangle to Baghdad with a show for U.S. troops.
     ...One GI told Price: "I know that we are helping rebuild a nation
     hat was once under a dictatorship."
     Price says soldiers tell him: " 'It took the United States hundreds
     of years to get democracy up and running and operating smoothly,
     and you really need to expect that it's going to take a significant
     amount of time for it to happen here.' They've also said they don't
     work in the pentagon. They're not part of the politics of this
     whole event. They're here to do a job. And what they're trying to
     do is actually transition from warrior to peace maker and
     ambassador.
     "They said one of the hardest things to actually communicate to
     people at home is the ability that these groups have had to build
     trust among the Iraqis and the Iraqi police, and that's hard to put
     in a headline, and it's hard to put on video. But they've done a
     fine job."
     Price did a similar tour about a year ago for the troops in
     Afghanistan and says the conditions in Iraq are significantly
     better than they were in Afghanistan.
     "And, as anyone who's been on their second or third tour will say,
     things have really begun to improve," he says.

   Of course the story isn't really about me (I have a fairly common
   name). But it does serve to once again illustrate the point that the
   troops seem to be experiencing a much different war than we're hearing
   about, and it's definitely worth reading/watching [1]the whole thing.

References

   1. http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/04/18/earlyshow/main1506946.shtml