User:Rogue164

Hello all, I joined this site mainly as an effort to correct what I felt was a grave misrepresentation of the opening stages of the war in Iraq. Unfortunately, because I am merely a veteran who was there and not some guy who managed to get a book published, my story, a first hand account, the honest truth to boot, is given the boot here because I couldnt back it up with a book. If I was rich and powerful and had an agenda, I could pay a printing company or buy my own prinitng press and re write history couldnt I? Hasnt it already been tried with WW2 by that idiot Pat Buchannan? Fortunately enough has been written about WW2 to refute one idiots version of reality to refute it. By the way am I free to express my views here? Is it ok for me to say on my page that I think a major political figure is an idiot or is free speech not protected on Wikipedia? This place has me a bit worried if they are willing to bury the truth so easily. I think I should be inspired and it should be my goal to write my own book, and I will round up other vets that were there and get them to sign off on it being the truth too, because I wont ask anyone just to take my word as a veteran ever again. Hell, I would show my DD214 and my combat decoration citation to anyone to prove I was there in the middle of it all and it wasnt the cakewalk that all these flim flam historians on Wikipedia say it is. To believe whats written on here about the battle for Baghdad in 2003 youd think we were taking a vacation in club med rather than fighting a war. It states that we lost one tank due to a "mechanical failure", and not due to the RPG hit in the fuel tank that caused a fire that could not be put out, and it also fails to mention that two of its crew were seriously wounded by small arms fire when they bailed out, one having his eye shot out. . hell, the entry fails to mention we took any casualties at all, they fail to mention that one of my friends also got shot in the face that day and died. He was heroically defending the column with an M4 carbine after all of the companies machine guns jammed from brass piled up in the catch trays and if not for him we would have been overrun. Of course, my Father, who holds a Phd in Geology and also taught physics at University of Tennessee at Chatanooga has said to me before that Wikipedia is a hotbed for plaigerism so it doesnt suprise me that they let false histries stand as well. Its it ok to criticaise Wikipedia here? To express my views? Or are the Wikipedia police going to delete my entry on my own damn page?