Not Your Sweetie

Wounded U.S. Soldiers Shocked at Iraqi Resistance
Wounded U.S. Soldiers Shocked at Iraqi Resistance
Thu March 27, 2003 11:16 AM ET

By Jeff Mason
LANDSTUHL, Germany (Reuters) - For them, the war is over. A few U.S. soldiers were
half the way home on
Thursday, bearing wounds inflicted by Iraqis they thought they were liberating.

Two army soldiers and one marine recounted to journalists how they came under fire at
the weekend from Iraqi
troops in civilian dress at the city of Nassiriya, scene of some of the fiercest fighting to
date.

"We were very surprised. We were told when we were going through Nassiriya that we
would see little to no
resistance," Marine Lance Corporal Joshua Menard told a news conference at the U.S.
military's medical facilities
at Landstuhl, Germany.