Sure sounds like an echo from Viet Nam only the name of the Secretary of Defense has changed.

"Tell Donald Rumsfeld the 2nd Brigade is still stuck in Fallouja," said Sgt. Siphon Phan, "and we're very angry."


U.S. Delays Pullout in Iraq

For U.S. Soldiers in Iraq, Long Haul Grows Longer
The latest deployment extension stirs new complaints that troops are already overtaxed. In Baghdad, another GI is killed.

July 15, 2003

By John Hendren, Times Staff Writer

FALLOUJA, Iraq — They're hot, they're cranky, and they're not leaving any time soon. Spc. Steven Outen has phoned his parents in Dalton, Ga., twice since his original six-month tour in the Persian Gulf was due to end in March to say his stay had been extended. This week, he didn't bother to call after he was again told to remain, this time through September. They expected it, he said.

"I didn't like it at all," he said...




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