donald.stacey ,188 Americans Killed in Iraq, Your Son is Next Thu Feb 12 15:57:12 2004 64.140.158.83 1,188 Americans Killed in Iraq, Your Son is Next http://joevialls.altermedia.info/yourson.html ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ This was in our local paper in the "LETTERS TO THE EDITOR." I'm the son of a medal winner in the Battle Of The Bulge and my dad was also assigned to guard one of the Nazi Generals at the Nuremburg Trials. I served in Vietnam era; my draft number was 16. And since my dad was neither rich or a Politician, I served my two years. I'd like to state I'm against unprovoked attacks on other countries (Korea, Vietnam, Afghanistan, Iraq). However, I think I have a solution for such political decisions. I suggest that any administration that initiates such action and anyone in the House or Senate that votes in support, would have all sons and daughters and grandkids ages 19 to 26 immediately be inducted into to the Armed Forces and, upon completion of Basic Training, immediately be sent to the front line of said conflict. Let our leaders be leaders. Let them invest their own flesh and blood as well as the taxpayer's money! I'd like to see this grandfathered in as of the date of the invasion of Iraq. If this happened, do you think we would have to wait long for troop withdrawal? Written by William M. Eggen, Kalamazoo ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ http://www.military.com/NewsContent/0,13319,FL_money_021104,00.html U.S. Military May Run Out Of Money United Press International February 11, 2004 WASHINGTON - The military will have no money to pay for the ongoing wars in Iraq and Afghanistan for three months beginning Oct. 1 because the White House is declining to ask Congress for funding until December or January, well after the presidential election. Army Chief of Staff Gen. Peter Schoomaker told the Senate Armed Services Committee the $38 billion he has for 2004 war operations will last only until the end of September, as he spends $3.7 billion a month in Iraq and about $900 million a month in Afghanistan. The Army has about 114,000 soldiers in Iraq and roughly 10,000 in Afghanistan. "I am concerned on how we bridge between the end of this fiscal year and when we can get a supplemental in the next fiscal year," Schoomaker told the committee. The fiscal year -- the government's spending year -- runs from Oct. 1 to Sept. 30 annually. Funds for 2004, therefore, run out Sept. 30, 2004. The Marine Corps, which will send about 75,000 Marines to Iraq in 2004/2005 and expects to need $1.5 billion, is in a similar financial bind. "I share the concerns of the chief of staff of the... ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ To Jay, Re:Your letter from a US Army Soldier To: freethoughtinmedia@yahoo.com Jay I have a daughter who just deployed to Iraq, she is still in transit. Before they left, their Col. went on a dry run. He came back to fill them in on what to expect. They will be stationed way out in the middle of "nowhere," living in tents, limited running water and electricity, will be equal to being in prison......she has served the last 17 years feeding the troops in the mess hall. Getting up before the crack of dawn, and working till the last pot was cleaned. When they went out on maneuvers, she cooked and fed the soldiers, did not do combat duty. Her mess company has been reassigned all of a sudden in the last couple of months, before deploying...because all overseas mess halls have been contracted out to Brown & Root, run by civilians. The battalion will be eating MRE's......& on a severe ration of bottled water, to be transported in. The Commander advised them to plan on losing the average of 25 lbs., due to dehydration from water rations and Iraqi germs, their immune systems are not used to. They will be sitting ducks out there, for nothing? She is packing an M16, dressed in combat uniforms......ready for what? Every soldier in her company is in the same boat, they have had spatula's and spoons in hand for years...not combat trained (except boot camp and possible couple times a year target practice. The field training, was doing their ordinary duties) They are not part of the "Special Forces" patrolling and 'military policing'. Just because there are not enough troops, they throw these untrained for combat soldiers out to the wolves? I've heard that this Iraqi war is the largest deployment since the WWII. For what? 9/11? There were 3000 lives lost in 9/11. Just how many of those lives were actually U.S. natural born citizens? Subtract the non citizens and visitors, what do we come up with, as far as numbers go? When we've lost the equivilant of lives, in Iraq......do we quit? When is enough, enough? Do we keep on killing Iraqi's, and losing troops, till dooms day? Bush has already identified himself as the "WAR PRESIDENT". When do American voters wise up and kick the killer out of our White House. WHAT'S THE POINT? Can someone please tell me, why the USA troops are there? Miles from anywhere and nowhere? Watching over the bush gold, oil? Why isn't everyone asking questions, demanding answers? Why are people just accepting the bush propaganda? Meanwhile, the influx of foreign terrorists keep growing and carrying out more sophisticated attacks with greater accuracy. Our Intel cannot track them, or hack into their method of communications, which they obviously have to communicate with each other to carry out their attacks. Our military cannot come up with suitable convoy equipment, to detect even the simplest types of roadside bombs. And instead of setting off and destroying the bombs from a safe distance, they insist on trying to "disarm" them with humans, who end up being blown to smithereens. That airhead Rumsfeld, the politician, is running the show, telling the Pentagon what to do, that's why? I am thoroughly fed up with this whole bush crap. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Iraqi deaths rise but no count on bodies: Independent thinktanks estimate as many as 10,000 civilians may have died as a direct result of the U.S.-led military intervention in Iraq, either during the war or in attacks aimed at uprooting the occupation. U.S. authorities in Iraq say they keep no official tally. http://www.reuters.co.uk/newsPackageArticle.jhtml?type=worldNews&storyID=456904§ion=news === The usual suspects : Russian observers estimate Iraqi military losses at 30,000 deaths and 120,000 seriously wounded. This means that many Iraqis now know that in the name of their "liberation", the Americans have killed or maimed 200,000 people. When something like this happens, you don't need any help from al-Qaeda to fuel your anger. http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/FB13Ak02.html === The unseen cost of the war in Iraq: The true extent of US casualties in Iraq are still unknown. This has fuelled suspicion that the administration may be hiding the true human cost of the war and its aftermath. Channel Four News has been allowed a rare opportunity to meet some of America's wounded soldiers. http://www.channel4.com/news/2004/02/week_2/10_iraq2.html === 7 Soldiers Meet Death in Iraq at 18 Of the more than 500 U.S. troops killed in Iraq, seven were just 18. 'It's a big waste of his life,' one embittered father says. http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/la-adfg-just8feb08,1,1532903.story === Bomber kills 46 Iraqis, Americans get blame: Shiites turn against U.S. amid growing despair http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/nationworld/bal-te.iraq12feb12,0,4268065.story?coll=bal-nationworld-headlines http://tinyurl.com/2pb24 === U.N. agrees need for Iraq election: A U.N. envoy has said after talks with Iraq's most powerful religious leader that the world body backed his call for elections http://www.reuters.co.uk/newsPackageArticle.jhtml?type=worldNews&storyID=457206§ion=news === Pentagon: 3 Months in Iraq Cost $14B: Officials previously had said the occupation of Iraq is costing $1 billion a week. http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20040212/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/us_iraq_war_cost_2 === Public vs classified versions of Iraq intelligence report differed: http://www.realcities.com/mld/krwashington/news/nation/7914375.htm American Paper Thin Patriots deserve what is going on. — Bush/CIA/NSA/Mafia Mind Control Victims, Thu Feb 12 18:56
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