IRAQ: War on the cheap

-- The Iraq war has been the war fought on the cheap - not enough body armor, not enough armor on vehicles, not enough night vision equipment. It has been the war in which packages from back home have had to fill some crucial needs. Now, we have chow call at the Greenwood Credit Union in Warwick, R.I. It's the latest in home-front intervention.

It's partially in response to the unthinkable image of U.S. Marines approaching Iraqi citizens and asking for food because they do not have enough. [I have been told by military personnel that though Halliburton has billions in contracts to feed and house them (three hots and a cot are what you are promised when you sign up), soldiers are having to use their own money to buy food off the local economy to survive. Where is all that damn money -- being diverted to the IRAN WAR that is already underway. These guys are pulling 22-hour shifts on two crappy Halliburton meals. AN OUTRAGE... AL]

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