10.01.2003

e-mail from my new soldier in iraq style boyfriend.
I'm back, I am not really sure why this place is the way it is. But,
it seems like alot of the people don't like us being here and some of them
do. Alot of the people think we are the reason for some of their problems,
and the ones that do like us just want stuff from us, like money, water,
food, or whatever you will give them. I don't give them anything I don't
like them, this place is so dirty and deserted. Alot of the stuff they put
out on the news to me does not seem true but what do I know. Like, when
the president says we have accomplished alot over here, I just don't really
see any progress. What, I meant by they was just Iraqi bathe party
loyalist I guess, theres no real way of knowing how many there are left because
they are all over Iraq. But, there attacks most of the time are not very
tactical and not really organized at all. For instance, it seems like
they just say hey let's mortar the americans, "ok, why not". Our camp
literally gets mortared like all the time. But, this is definitely not like
vietnam we are not allowed to go and just mingle in the towns with the people.
I really wouldn't want to anyways. I guess, the guys who were in vietnam
who came back married were really just desperate for something. Times have
really changed since then because, they went through alot of emotional
distress, where as we really aren't I don't think anyway. I definitely
could never marry an Iraqi woman, much less someone from another
country probably for that matter. I think anything these people here can sell
to us is the hottest thing on the market. I gotta run for now, but hit me
back later or something, also for some reason I just found out that my
account will not let me open pictures and such from other e-mail ads besides
hotmail.