" I have no idea what we’re doing here, mom. I don’t know why we’re here. We’re not helping anyone – there’s no rebuilding. The Iraqis don’t want us here, they want us out of here.”
– Patrick McCaffrey, California National Guard, in a conversation with his mother before he was killed on June 22, 2004.
"لاتوجد عندي ادنى فكرة لماذا نحن هنا. امي ,لا اعرف لماذا نحن هنا؟ لا نقوم بمساعدة اي احد وليس هناك إعادة للإعمار. العراقيون لايريدوننا هنا. يريدوننا ان نخرج من هنا".
باتريك مكافي . الحرس الوطني لكاليفورنيا. في حديث مع والدته قبل قتله في 22حزيران 2004.
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" We were sent there, and boys are coming back in coffins, all because of a massive lie. … I’m not politically minded in any way, but I’ve got a brain. I’m not anti-regiment or anti-military, but now I can see that we should not have been there in the first place. … We shouldn’t be there and we shouldn’t have gone there. I think it’s important that someone like me says that. I think there should be someone who was a soldier saying that, not someone in a suit and tie, saying it for their own ends, but saying it for the sake of the men and women left out there.’’
– Corporal Dave Corrigan, British Parachute Regiment , 16th Air Assault Brigade.