Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute

July 30, 2009

The Fort Carson-based 4th Infantry Division?s 4th Brigade Combat Team, which experienced some of the heaviest fighting during the early stages of the Iraq war, suffered a widespread breakdown of morale and military discipline. Several soldiers attached to that unit have been accused of murder and similar crimes since returning to the United States.

In interviews with the Colorado Springs Gazette, soldiers from that unit described running over Iraqi automobiles with tanks and Bradley Fighting Vehicles. Innocent taxi drivers were shot without provocation. Some Iraqi civilians were interrogated and then thrown from bridges.

?The Army pounds it into your head until it is instinct: Kill everybody, kill everybody,? explains infantry specialist Kenneth Eastridge, who is now in prison. ?And you do. Then they just think you can just come home and turn it off.?

That?s one of many reasons why wars should never be started on a whim, as happened with our tragic and unnecessary conflict in Iraq.

Let us take back the liberty wherewith Christ has made us free.