"There were a few ambushes," he said. "You get used to it to a point. But when you start to relax, something else happens, and it tenses you back up." Cantley said the attitudes of Iraqis have changed. "When we first went in there, it was quiet. They were pretty afraid of us," Cantley said. "Toward the end, they were becoming more hostile."
How long until all the troops will be home? Let's pray for their safe return, in spite of all the bad news that's rolling in almost daily.
Sadly, the Iraqi opposition to American troops has been encouraged by their recent "successes"... and a lot of civilians are dying, too. It's hard for me to think of this war as anything else but a nightmare at this point. Long-term prospects are unclear, except that billions and billions of dollars will continue to be spent. Maybe I'm too pessimistic, but sometime's it's hard to see the light at the end of the tunnel.
