Evidence reveals Iraq attacks more sophisticated

[priller]

Okay, the title is no big news. What caught my eye was this paragraph from a soldier in Baghdad:

As those frontline soldiers struggle with the occupation, the Coalition's Provisional Authority Headquarters has its own worries: running out of Coca-Cola.

AM has been sent an email from a soldier based at the al-Rasheed Hotel. He complains that those running Iraq are more concerned with "hooking up with nice-looking gals from US and Iraq". He says for staff at the headquarters, their biggest problem is running out of Coke and Diet Coke to go with their steak and crab leg dinner.

The occupation now costs around US$4-billion a month, and Paul Bremer, the man running the provisional authority, admits Iraq will need several tens of billions of dollars in aid next year.

The email says the soldiers fighting "look like hobo's and live like pigs", while those within the Mr Bremer's authority have created a sterile ivory castle that distorts their view of the country.

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http://www.abc.net.au/am/content/2003/s936044.htm

[NNN0LHI]

1. Gosh. Almost sounds like Saddam is running the country again n/t

[KharmaTrain]

5. ...And I Thought It Was Me

Greetings Illini Neighbor...

I couldn't help noticing how quickly Franks and all the other top brass settled into Saddam's palaces within hours of the invasion...and all those initial pictures of our Marines living it up with Uday or Coty or whomever's Iron Maiden. It made nice pics for Faux.

From checking David Hackworth's site and various others that have emails from the "grunts", there is a big and growing divide between the top brass (aw...we don't need no more soldiers, just send money)and the guys named Rodriguez and Roosevelt or isn't a military blue-blood whose sweltering in the waste left from our massive military machine.

Notice when the 3rd ID beefed about delayed deployment and the conditions they face, Herr Rumsfedlt made sure they got shipped out FAST and then the WORD went down that no bitching will be tolerated. Any gripe about living conditions, eroded benefits or any bad word about the "Supreme Commander" was akin to treason.

There's a undercurrent starting to boil in the ranks of the military, and the REAL heroes...the guys and gals who are forced to follow the Chickenhawk's misorders and are being tossed aside. This isn't like Vietnam...this is worse...it's like the Soviets in Afghanistan.

[NNN0LHI]

6. "it's like the Soviets in Afghanistan" That is no coincidence my friend

We are being payed back for interfering with the Soviets war in Afghanistan causing over a 60,000 Soviet soldiers to die and bankrupting their country in the process. I think it is time to for Junior to take another look into Putins eyes and see if he still sees a good man. The tactics being used against us in Iraq right now are right out of the Russian playbook. Welcome to DU IMRadioactive. I am in Grant Park near Kankakee. Take care and nice to meet you.

Don

[Tom Yossarian Joad]

2. I have to create a word to describe where the Bush Admin wants

to take the world: A neo-feudal society. The email added to Bushco's opinions and actions toward our increasingly shrinking middle class only leads me to see a future of a handful of uber-wealthy decreeing policy and law to the rest of the world.

[TolstoyAndy]

4. Even worse than that (imho)

That's what the Federal Reserve and the Bilderbergers etc. are all about - this is a plan that has been generations in the making.

They want to reduce the entire world to the status of slaves.

No country is exempt.

It doesn't matter if you work for them or not.
Your blind obedience to the Leader will not win you favor.
If you're not already among the über-rich, you are of no importance and will suffer the same fate as the rest of us.

The only growth industry will be the security/penal industry.
Your grandchildren will live so miserably they will dream of living like the serfs of previous ages.

The good jobs will be gone, and much of the world's population will be killed off in the wars they are dragging us into - all the more for the glorious rulers!

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