108F today in Basrah. Do you know why your children are dying?

[dArKeR]

http://weather.yahoo.com/forecast/IZXX0002.html

[rucky]

1. that explains why our troops have no Kevlar

it's just too darn hot

[wryter2000]

2. How horrible

I whimper when it gets over 90 for any length of time. Hell for me would be over 100 heat day after day.

[Desertrose]

3. but its a dry heat...no seriously...it does make a difference

with humidity, you'd be dead, but without....yeah, its still HOT but as a desert dweller I consider 100 warm...about 110 it's hot.... 115 is pretty miserable.

Of course these guys are dressed in non-desertclime clothing and I am appalled that they barely have water. The hardest is if they are unable to get out of the sun...closer to the equator that sun is even more brutal.(Iraq is about equal latitude to southern TX & N FL)

There is just so much wrong with our guys being over there...and now another summer...I would be worried sick if my kids were there.

Heartbreaking for so many reasons!

Peace
DR

[wryter2000]

4. I live in dry heat, too

It doesn't matter. Any heat over 100 is unbearable.

[progressivebydesign]

5. I moved away from that type of heat.

It began to just kill me slowly. Even air conditioning doesn't cool your body.. especially if the nights are hot.

When I heard that we were dropping off the people released from the infamous prison there, dropping them off in the middle of the desert, I wondered if that was further abuse. I didn't know the temps had climbed that high already. Hell on earth for all involved.

[cheezus]

6. Yes, I do. It's because George W Bush lead us into an illegal war

based on faked intelligence.

And I bet that fucker has his AC cranked way up right now, too.

[Columbia]

7. You get used to it