Letter from a friend in Iraq

by Yerusalyim 117 Replies latest social current

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  rem

  Yeru,

  Is your friend's name U.S. Army Maj. Eric Rydbom?

  rem
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  Yerusalyim

  Nope
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  Trauma_Hound

  Well then, you are either: 1. Out and out lying to us, since if you search on Eric Rydbom on google, you get hits all over the net, with this exact same letter. 2. Somebody has massivly plagerised the letter. 3. Someone sent you this in e-mail, and is trying to pass it off as your friend. I tend to rule out #2. Once again I call BS on this. Maybe Eric Rydbom does exist, but your trying to pass this off as someone else writing it.
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  DakotaRed

  but your trying to pass this off as someone else writing it.

  Would that be anything like someone trying to pass themselves off as a Mayoral candidate of a large Metropolitan City, but forgetting tons of vile and nasty comments stored on forums and emails all over the internet?

  Last I heard, "undetermined" meant the validity is unknown. It may or may not be true. However, there are computers with soldiers in Iraq and they do send and receive email. It is very possible a friend stationed within Iraq did indeed send it on.

  Lew W (of the radical right wing, warmonger, eat dead burnt bodies, veterans class)
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  teejay

  Welcome back, Dakota.
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  Simon

  Letter from a friend in Iraq: "Ok, I won't give his name, but he is a Major with an Engineer unit in Iraq"

  Q. Is your friend's name U.S. Army Maj. Eric Rydbom?

  A. Nope

  Then this: http://www.snopes.com/politics/war/rydbom.asp

  Hmmn ... you seem to suddenly have a huge credibility gap here Yeru. It looks like you have just passed on some propaganda (and poorly done at that) and tried to make it more credible by claiming it was from your friend (perhaps people wouldn't tear it to shreds then?). Turns out you don't know the guy who wrote it and it's all over the internet.

  Another possibility is that is really is form your friend and it's word-for-word the same as other letters that have been sent out because it's some coordinated compaign that the army is conducting. They really must think we're stupid.
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  Cassiline

  Forget it... cause I can tell dates yet, and I am only almost 40 DUH!!!!

  edited: due to stupidity on my part!!!!!!!
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  DakotaRed

  They really must think we're stupid.

  There's even another possibility. That being it actually was written by some major in Iraq, although I find the name attributed to it suspect. Maybe that is why Snopes says "UNDETERMINED," "RESEARCH IN PROGRESS." Why not wait and see what is determined before attacking others over it? It may be difficult to comprehend, but what the media prints and airs isn't always the exact truth.

  What I find dreadfully droll is that anything presented from the right is automatically written off as "biased," "untrue," "radical," "stopping others from airing their views," etc., etc., while any and everything presented from the left and against Bush or the US involvement in Iraq is automatically accepted as honest and truthful.

  I guess that's the modern version of fair and balanced.

  Lew W (of the wondering why it is evil for the US to be involved in Iraq, yet is also evil for *not* being involved in Liberia class)

  P.S. Thanks TeeJay, but I don't consider myself as "back," just stopping by.
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  Guest 77

  Should the title of the post have been, 'A letter from a major in Iraq?' Could it be that Yer, considers a major his friend because they have something in common/personal?

  Guest 77
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  Yerusalyim

  Ok,

  I've received the letter from a friend in Iraq, is it possible it isn't his? Obviously it isn't if we're finding this on Snoop. The link Simon provided is almost verbatim the email I recieved, it just had the top few sentences lopped off. I did a search on the Army Portal, which is an Army wide web server. All soldiers are required to have an account. This Eric Rydbom is in the engineer branch, a major, and a reservist. Whether or not he's been in or is in Iraq I couldn't say. Army emails are usually the first name, dot, last name @us.army.mil

  All this still doesn't negate the fact that what we see on CNN (BBC for you brits) is not always what's going on. This is another perspective. No more or less valid than that of the reporters, especially when we're dealing with such Leftist organizations as CNN and BBC. Finally, after all we've learned since the war, can anyone here honestly say taking out Saddam was a bad thing?