About the violence

I see Bush made a pump the war stop in my hometown, Cleveland. What I don't see is any mention of the number of war casualties in Iraq from Ohio. There were 106. That doesn't include the number of Veterans whose service in the military had ended, and were sought out by private contracting firms. I don't have a count of those from Ohio, but one of the men whose burned, mutilated corpse was hung from the bridge in Fallujah was Veteran Jerry Zovko.








A 6'3" former Army Ranger, he was born in Cleveland, joined the military in 1991 and had a reputation for being independent, with a knack for getting what he wanted. A Croatian-American, he got himself assigned to Bosnia in 1995 to help keep the peace. In 1997, after being thwarted in joining the Green Berets, he left the army and went to work as a security contractor for DynCorp in Qatar and Dubai, where he learned Arabic. In the summer of 2003, he signed on with Vinnell to help train the new Iraqi army, telling his family it was important work because the Iraqis needed the chance to take charge of their own country. Three months later, he joined Blackwater Security Consulting.

I think Ohio has more than contributed to giving the Iraqis the chance to take charge of their own country. What do the rest of you Buckeyes think?