Life at the Front no picnic for GIs(letter home)

[indictrichardperle]

"We have been hit(mortars) 18 of the last 19 days" "45 guys have been hurt" "they cut off our food supply" "alot of amputees and bodybags are going to be returning home"

(Wolfowitz must have overlooked this Hell, or hes LYING)


http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/0728militaryletter1.html

[Devils Advocate NZ]

1. Am I mistaken when my memory recalls hearing that...

US military logistics had been privatised and the contract given to Brown & Root or some such? Because it seems that they are not providing value for money, if soldiers like this poor bastard have to be hungry as well as hot, scared, and tired.

There's an old saying that goes something like "an army marches on it's stomach", and even Napoleon recognised this simple truth. Too bad the US military seems to have forgotten it.

[indictrichardperle]

2. there is a serious supply problem

the radio interview i heard with a father of a soldier, the son called and broke into tears saying he couldnt get enough water, and the father asked what he could do, the son said "send me something to drink"

Rummy "stream-lined" supply, royally fuc*ing up everything.

Everyone should read that kids letter........THAT is what we are putting our young people through for the neo-con PNAC scumbags.

[catmandu57]

3. I've been waiting for

reports of supply lines being attacked, if it's happening and I'm sure it is, they're keeping it awfully quiet. I believe there is much we aren't being told.

[mjb4]

4. serves them all right

casting fraud votes, voting for that idiot and cheering his every move.

[indictrichardperle]

5. Junior said he would not spread troops all over the world

Junior said he wouldnt mis-use the military.

None of those 19 yo kids joined up to guard Halliburtons oil rigs, or to do the neo-cons mid east dirty work.

Bring the troops home NOW.

[zekeson]

7. My nephew, home from 8 mos in Iraq

told me the same. That * ran on a platform of no nation-building and that they were over in Iraq doing just that. He said in the time he was there he was never told to look for WMD, nor told to be particularly worried about dangers of gas or chemical attack and that the whole WMD story was just an effort to get into the ME for US interests. After a brief rest I imgaine he will get to go back and not have meals, water, sunscreen, and all the other things BR was contracted to provide.

[aquart]

9. George is a contrarian. He always means the opposite of what he says.

As soon as he said that about not spreading troops, you should have known we were going to war.

[roguevalley]

10. for god sake

you are generalizing here. My sister lost her leg a year
ago in a motorcycle accident. I wouldn't wish the hell of
amputation on ANYONE! As for their suffering, they are
OUR people. What is the matter here???!?!?!?!

[jpak]

6. Holy Cow!

Are things really that bad??????

These guys need to come home NOW!

[caledesi]

8. No food? WTF? Can we send food. This is an digusting.

[kathee]

15. If a Mom can send air conditioners

and feminine products, then seems to me most anything else can be sent.

I like to keep an eye on that yahoo group of military families, much insight there. Glad someone here at DU gave the link.

Here it is again. Tho, it has been running kind of sluggish lately.
Military Families Speak Out

[bleedingheart]

11. "Let them eat cake"

that almost seems appropriate now that * and his cronies are filling their rich pals coffers while the men and women in the armed forces are coming home in coffins.

It is disgusting that we give contracts to Brown and Root so that our boys and girls can't get any food or water..

This is bullshit.

[roguevalley]

13. I know. I feel so FRUSTRATED!

I hate the idea of anyone having an amputation. Since
two members of my family have had them, I can tell you
there will be serious, long lasting trauma in our
country for the next thirty years.

RV, SICK AT HEART!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[htuttle]

12. Does anyone have any doubt whatsoever...

...that if supply tasks where handled by the US military instead of a private contractor, that the troops in Iraq would not be hungry and thirsty right now?

I think they'd be a whole lot better off if the military handled it than some company out to make a profit on the deal.

[Tinoire]

14. Fisk Article: US troops turn botched Saddam raid into a massacre

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=116&topic_id=436

By Robert Fisk in Baghdad 28 July 2003

Obsessed with capturing Saddam Hussein, American soldiers turned a botched raid on a house in the Mansur district of Baghdad yesterday into a bloodbath, opening fire on scores of Iraqi civilians in a crowded street and killing up to 11, including two children, their mother and crippled father. At least one civilian car caught fire, cremating its occupants. The vehicle carrying the two children and their mother and father was riddled by bullets as it approached a razor-wired checkpoint outside the house.

Amid the fury generated among the largely middle-class residents of Mansur ­ by ghastly coincidence, the killings were scarcely 40 metres from the houses in which 16 civilians died when the Americans tried to kill Saddam towards the end of the war in April ­ whatever political advantages were gained by the killing of Saddam's sons have been squandered. A doctor at the Yarmouk hospital, which received four of the dead, turned on me angrily last night, shouting: "If an American came to my emergency room, maybe I would kill him."

http://news.independent.co.uk/world/fisk/

[indictrichardperle]

16. looks like the neo-cons are losing hearts and minds

on both sides.

Mortar attacks every single day ? yea it sounds like we are "just over the hump" :eyes:

If the Iraqi guerrillas are as clever as i fear, they will target supply and foreign troops. Im sure they are, we just dont hear about it. The soldiers killed today by the grenade under the bridge, stopped under the bridge to "gather water".

David Hackworth is starting to expose Rummy and his pansy neo-con civilian leadership. ( sftt.org )

[RamboLiberal]

17. CBS News tonight doing a report on GI death today asked a soldier

"How's morale"

Soldier gutteral sarcastic laugh. "Morale. What's that?", then laughed again.

Soldier's face could be clearly seen, so this guy didn't give a damn what the WH and Rummy has done to him for daring to speak up.

[indictrichardperle]

18. kick

deplorable mis-use/abuse of our troops for Halliburton and the neo-cons.