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Brass aims at GIs during Rummy’s visitI just got off the phone with my son... It was great to hear his voice. It was only the second time I have talked to him since he has been in Baghdad.In the conversation I asked him about Rumsfeld's visit to the Baghdad Airport. My son said that on an average day, there are Iraqis around the airport doing different chores. He said that none were allowed at the airport during Rumsfeld's visit. More disturbing, my son said there were sharp-shooters on the roofs of all the buildings. I asked my son why they would need sharp-shooters on the roof if there were no Iraqis at the Airport. He said they were for the SOLDIERS! He said they were all warned that any one that went on a roof would be SHOT! The airport is made up of several high rise buildings that the troops live in. My son said several of his friends live on the upper floors of these buildings. He said they generally go up on the roof to read or to smoke, etc. These soldiers were warned they would be shot if they went up on the roof for any reason. I find it shocking that the morale is so low for the troops that the upper brass don't trust them. In closing, my son told me that his friends appreciate our efforts. He said they know that we are protesting against the administration and not them. They back us completely. In peace, Father of a Soldier in Iraq posted September 25, 2003 on the Bring Them Home Now sound off board. Wolfowitz gets a taste of IraqDeputy Defence Secretary Paul Wolfowitz, a prime architect of the Iraq war, went to Baghdad where he met the real world for the first time. Iraqi resistance forces rocketed the heavily-guarded al-Rashid Hotel, the imperial cantonment where he and other U.S. VIPs were lodged, missing Wolfowitz’s room by one floor.The attack left Wolfowitz visibly shaken. Here was the fire-eating warlord, the tough neo-con theoretician who had sent American GIs into combat in Afghanistan and Iraq, trembling in his brand-new chukka boots after the tiniest taste of real war. 
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