General Karpinski Speaks Out

I should say "Colonel" Karpinski -- she was after all demoted for her role in the Abu Ghraib prison scandal. She has a few things to say.

And here is another soldier who isn't all that happy about the situation in Iraq:

OLBERMANN: For surviving veterans of Iraq, the return home is not easy. Nobody is saying it‘s like the March on Washington from the so-called Bonus Army in 1932, World War I vets demanding an immediate payment of a bonus that was scheduled for 1945, some of them eventually shooting it out with General Douglas MacArthur‘s troops within sight of the Capitol. That all actually happened.

But what if I told you that one of the two soldiers who hauled Saddam Hussein out of hiding is, more than a year after his return from Iraq, and more than eight weeks after he started looking for a civilian job, unemployed tonight?

Specialist Jeans Cruz joins us from New York tonight.

Thank you for your time, sir.

SPEC. JEANS CRUZ (RET.), UNEMPLOYED IRAQ WAR VETERAN: And thank you, Keith.

OLBERMANN: We‘ll get to the job in a moment. But first, we now have in this country what we certainly didn‘t have when you left for Iraq, maybe when you got back, a very loud debate on how much longer we should stay in that country. You‘ve more than earned your right to be heard on this. What do you think?

CRUZ: To be honest, it is time to pull out now. As you said, no one needs to die for others who have died. Everybody has their sacrifices. And we do not need to sacrifice more people. We know what everybody else has sacrificed, and we have to praise that right now.