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The letter below is from Friday's Stars and Stripes:
Compassionate warriors

I am an Iraqi police liaison officer working in Baghdad, and I saw something the other day that illustrated to me our country’s presence in Iraq.

I was going to the post exchange in the Baghdad International Zone when we passed the checkpoint to the medical area. I saw an Iraqi man who had been badly wounded. One of his legs was missing and his other was covered in bandages. Both hands were tightly wrapped in gauze. He was in a wheelchair, but was unable to move it himself. All of his extremities were either gone or useless.

The temperature was around 100 degrees F, and the man was sitting in the sun. As I watched, an American military policeman walked over with a bottle of cool water, but the man could not drink it unaided. This big, tough MP, in full armor and carrying his M-16, opened the bottle and very slowly and gently poured the water into the injured man’s mouth. He was careful not to let the man choke as he gulped the water. It reminded me of a mother bird feeding a helpless chick.

Why don’t we see pictures like that on the TV or in the newspapers? This reflects the U.S. soldier, not the abuses of a few idiots. This is the kind of warrior we breed in the USA: fierce in battle, compassionate in victory. Willing to die for an ideal, willing to bend down and help someone in need.

Would our enemies do the same? I don’t think so. And that makes all the difference.