After a brief stroll through the streets of Baghdad Joe Lieberman sees progress that the troops that are there 24 hours a day can't see.
Lieberman talks to troops in Baghdad
BAGHDAD, Iraq - Spc. David Williams, 22, of Boston, Mass., had two note cards in his pocket Wednesday afternoon as he waited for Sen. Joseph Lieberman. Williams serves in the 82nd Airborne Division from Fort Bragg, N.C., the first of the five "surge" brigades to arrive in Iraq, and he was chosen to join the Independent from Connecticut for lunch at a U.S. field base in Baghdad.Yes Lieberman sees progress but what do the troops see?
The night before, 30 other soldiers crowded around him with questions for the senator.
He wrote them all down. At the top of his note card was the question he got from nearly every one of his fellow soldiers:
"When are we going to get out of here?"
Next to him, Spc. Will Hedin, 21, of Chester, Conn., thought about what he was going to say.But of course Joe doesn't see it that way. After a brief shopping trip surrounded by troops and wearing a flack jacket saw lots of improvement. Joe is just a delusional and brain dead as Bush himself.
"We're not making any progress," Hedin said, as he recalled a comrade who was shot by a sniper last week. "It just seems like we drive around and wait to get shot at."
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Spc. Kevin Krasco, 20, of Medford, Mass., and Spc. Kevin Adams, 20, of Moosup, Conn., chimed in with their dismay before turning the conversation to baseball.
"It's like everything else in this war," Adams said, referring to Baghdad. "It hasn't changed."
