  A soldier in Iraq asks in despair: Why are we here?   After
watching his roommate fatally wounded in a roadside bombing, an
Army Specialist wonders why the lives of good men are being lost
when the Iraqis pose no threat to us and don’t want us there.  A
soldier in Iraq asks in despair: Why are we here?BAGHDAD, May 12
— My name is Donald Hudson Jr. I have been serving our country’s
military actively for the last three years. I am currently
deployed to Baghdad on Forward Operating Base Loyalty, where I
have been for the last four and a half months.  I came here as
part of the first wave of this so called “troop surge”, but so
far it has effectively done nothing to quell insurgent violence.
I have seen the rise in violence between the Sunni and Shiite.
This country is in the middle of a civil war that has been on
going since the seventh century.  Why are we here when this
country still to date does not want us here? Why does our
president’s personal agenda consume him so much, that he can not
pay attention to