[Sosfbay-discuss] Ted Westhusing

[Tian Harter]

I recieved the following from Per in response to my last email.
It was so readable I had to share it:
>
>Re. Iraq, have you heard of Ted Westhusing? He was an
>Army Colonel; a real achiever. West Point, Airborne
>and Ranger school, taught at West Point, learned
>Italian and Russian, real gung-ho super-patriot.
>Believed Iraq was a just war and went out of his way
>to convince people of it. 
>
>Then he got a chance to go to Iraq, to work with US
>contractors and train Iraqi security forces. It was a
>six-month stint. A month before he was due to return
>he apparently committed suicide, leaving a letter that
>complained about the corruption amongst money-grabbing
>US contractors, lack of support from the higher-ups,
>and the complete, over failure of the mission, and a
>few other things too. 
>
>This guy was a highly idealistic person, so I guess
>the shock just completely brought his view of life
>tumbling down. He had a wife and three small children.
>
>It happened June, 2005. I've not seen much in the
>media about this. He was the highest ranking soldier
>to have died in Iraq at the time. 
>
>Even if he didn't sound like a person I would
>particularly like, it's a, bloody waste of a human
>life... 
>
>Here's the whole story: 
>
http://www.texasobserver.org/article.php?aid=2440

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Tian
We got great coverage for our protest in Los Gatos Saturday:
http://losgatosobserver.com/los-gatos/Article.php?article_id=0226