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We had handed food and water to these two starving and very thirsty POWs. Later, I tried to
          lift this one’s spirits with a girlie magazine. After a while, the fun was over, and he began
          sobbing after a few questions about Saddam Hussain. The feeling of defeat for him was
          overwhelming. Lt Abdul finally came over and began to question the two troops.

                 I stood up and looked around. My Marine buddy said, “get back
          down and take the picture.” So, I did. After the picture was taken, I grabbed
          my camera back and ran over to Gunny. Gunny was standing with a pair of
          binos next to the logistics vehicle. Excitedly I started tapping Gunny on the
          shoulder.
                 “What do you want, Witcher?”
                 “Look over there at that POW. That jackass is reading that porno
          mag upside down and backward. I tried to flip it the right way, and he told
          me no…and flipped it wrong again.
                 “How in the hell did he get that magazine?”
                 “I gave it to him!”
                 “ Why in the hell did you do that? Go take it away from him!”
                 “OK.”
                 So, I trotted back over and took the magazine from him. Yet I wanted
          to know more so I sat down and started asking him some questions, even
          though we could not speak the same language, I said my words very slowly.
                 I asked him, “what do you think of Saddam Hussain?”
                 “No. No good.” In that same statement, the POW began to cry and
          sob.



             Listen: POW says
             Saddam no good
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