Mistrust, misery in heat of Baghdad
Mistrust, misery in heat of Baghdad
Frustrated U.S. reservists see a mission impossible
By Anthony Shadid
THE WASHINGTON POST
BAGHDAD, June 30 — To Staff Sgt. Charles Pollard, the working-class suburb of Mashtal is a “very, very, very, very bad neighborhood.†And he sees just one solution.
“U.S. OFFICIALS need to get our [expletive] out of here,†said the 43-year-old reservist from Pittsburgh, who arrived in Iraq with the 307th Military Police Company on May 24. “I say that seriously. We have no business being here. We will not change the culture they have in Iraq, in Baghdad. Baghdad is so corrupted. All we are here is potential people to be killed and sitting ducks.â€