"...little water have led some troops to give each other IVs

[LynnTheDem]

to prevent dehydration"

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/13490210/

Good thing the "Forgotten War" is going so well. :sarcasm:

[marmar]

1. Why any halfway reasonable person still believes Bush gives a damn...

about the troops is beyond logic. Cognitive dissonance, I guess.

[Pirate Smile]

2. Damn, this sh#t pisses me off.

"Dozens of soldiers and one donkey, rented for $10, lugged more than 7,000 pounds of food and water from the valley floor to their mountaintop ridge Thursday. It had been air-dropped by coalition aircraft because no helicopters were available to deliver it closer."


Where are all the helicopters? In Iraq, I'm sure.


"The extra supplies mean the troops get 12 bottles of water to drink per day, instead of eking by on five or six as they had been. They also now have two MRE (Meals Ready to Eat) food packs this day, instead of the one they’d been limited to earlier.

“I hate this place. You can drop the devil here and he’d hate it,” said Staff Sgt. Brian Rice, 39, of Eugene, Ore. “I’m pissing orange and they want me to shave with my drinking water. Ain’t gonna happen.”

[jwirr]

10. Good old helliburtin gets paid to supply food & water?

[KansDem]

16. Worse...gets OVERpaid to supply food & water

Halliburton To Pay Pentagon $6.3M

(AP) Halliburton will pay the Pentagon $6.3 million for possible overcharges by a subcontractor that is accused of giving kickbacks to supply U.S. soldiers in Iraq, a spokeswoman said Friday in new trouble for Vice President Dick Cheney's former company.

--more--

CBS News (pre-Couric)

[VolcanoJen]

15. "You can drop the devil here, and he'd hate it."

That's one way of putting it.

What a horrible story.

[Minnesota Libra]

3. Why is it that neocons won't admit we're in over our heads...............

.....over there?? :cry: OMFG, I hate the WH Idiot and his Evil VP Handler with everything in me.

[jwirr]

11. Its not their kids, so why should they care. They are totally selfish.

[lonestarnot]

4. Providing everything they need for dis wa I see.

[madokie]

7. almost seems as if they, *co doesn't want many soldiers to ever come back

and the one who do to die soon

[leftchick]

5. "Operation Mountain Thrust"?

:puke: This is just fucking sick...

BAGHRAN VALLEY, Afghanistan - By night, the troops brace for Taliban mortar attacks. By day, they carry heavy gear and weapons over rocky ledges in scorching heat, stopping only to rehydrate, sometimes with the help of intravenous drips.

Life with the 2nd Battalion, 87th Infantry Regiment in southern Afghanistan is a battle not only against a stealthy and stubborn enemy but against some of the earth’s harshest natural elements.

“I am hungry, thirsty and dirty. Welcome to my world,” said Sgt. 1st Class Gonzalo Lassally, 31, of Deltona, Fla.

[TahitiNut]

6. It's OK. The "Support Our Troops" magnets make up for all of this.

:eyes: :puke:

Reminds me of 'Nam ... lots of folks marching to bring "our boys" home, but very few letters from friends (lots of "Dear John") or CARE packages.

[MercutioATC]

8. Another board I'm on donated Ultima Replenisher to a unit in Iraq...

(sorta like Gatorade mix but designed for athletes http://www.ultimareplenisher.com )

The unit was overwhelmed that people they didn't even know would do something like this for them and said it was especially appreciated because they were drinking local water because they had decided, as a unit, that they didn't want drivers to risk their lives bringing them water.


How the hell are we supposed to "win the war on terror" when we can't even give our soldiers water ?

[Qanisqineq]

9. hasn't that been going on for the last 3+ years?

When my husband was there (2003-2004), they had to give each other IV's quite often. Pretty sad. Plus having to send food so he could eat enough. When he got home, his skin literally hung off of him. When I hugged him I could grab handfuls of skin and he looked so small (despite being 12 inches taller than me).

[bananas]

17. And Tom Ridge says this will go on for decades.

What a nightmare.

[Pirate Smile]

12. kick

[catnhatnh]

13. Gotta connect the dots on this helicopter thing....

in the last few months there have been threads on rebuilding helicopters from storage depots (boneyards) and taking the V-22 osprey units operational....We are simply shit outta choppers.....rebuilds are fine but time consuming,Ospreys crash a LOT but fly SOME....The Chinooks (shithooks) were so bad in 1970 that a Viet combat vet told me that when resupplied by one in the boonies the grunts would rather stay on the perimeter UNDER FIRE than stand below a Chinook to direct a landing....We've seen threads this week on Humvees and armor being shipped home and ALL of it is trashed....both warzones are a logistics nightmare and neither is going to improve....half the required water and one meal a day -$8 billion a week-Republicans supporting the troops,Over $1/2 trillion so far-logistics supply by $10 donkey-PRICELESS.....

[rniel]

14. I gotta wonder

are these bush voters?

Well hell to be fair, I'll bet their votes were not even counted anyway.

[lumpy]

19. Kick

x

[lpbk2713]

18. No water at all must be retribution

for exposing the sewage water previously provided by Halliburton as drinking water.








I'll teach those little punks a lesson they'll never forget about complaining!

[Supersedeas]

20. get back to reporting the good good news from the Mid East, Rove demands

it

[DesertRat]

21. So this is how we support the troops?

:grr:

[fooj]

22. Those republican bastards voted against an investigation into

all of this BS...

This is CRIMINAL! Where are their military leaders? Damn.:grr:

[oasis]

23. Let the truth be told. (n/t)