New Book: How Privatization of Iraq War - Betrayed the Troops

[sabra]

http://www.insidebayarea.com/sanmateocountytimes/ci_5791321

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"Betraying our Troops" tells the experiences of numerous soldiers and contractor whistleblowers trying to perform in life-and-death situations with scant supplies. Each story is corroborated by four or five other sources, Rasor said, and documented in a 17-page appendix.

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The tragic consequence of this new arrangement has been that many times contractors have refused to go into dangerous areas, leaving soldiers in need, they wrote.

"A contractor can just say, 'We're not doing it,'" Rasor said, "(but) under the Uniform Code of Military Justice, if a private refuses, he goes to jail."

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According to the book, it meant Army Staff Sgt. Perry Jefferies, concerned that his 1,700 soldiers were growing too thin and dehydrated to fight, commandeered a portable shower truck to divert as drinking water for his troops.

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It meant that several thousand soldiers at Camp Speicher near the Iraq-Iran border faced the possibility of an instant cutoff in food, fighting gear, water, truck parts and even generated electricity as the contractor, KBR, threatened a work stoppage after a dispute with the Army about its invoices.

[SammyWinstonJack]

1. K&R!

[EVDebs]

2. No, it's KBR ! just kidding

Will Hillary do likewise ?

"The success of Brown & Root during the Clinton Administration further bolstered the opinion that the private sector could better determine how to provide deployed soldiers with adequate supplies for day to day life in a forward area."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kellogg,_Brown_and_Root

[SpiralHawk]

3. "But, but, but...What about our war profits?" - Commander AWOL

"My chickenhawk REPUBLICON cronies deserve to make MASSIVE PROFITS,
and so you noisy soldiers and veterans and citizens can just shut up
and sit down. Who cares what you think?"

- Commander AWOL


Republicon War Profiteers:

[ShortnFiery]

4. Proud to give this it's 5th recommendation.

:dem: Kick!

[Bitwit1234]

5. And did you hear this crock of crap statement bush made----

New vehicles which are made to withstand the blast of IED's are ready to deploy to Iraq, but because of the funding cut off they won't be able to be sent.

WHO IN THE S.O.B. HELL WILL BE RESPONSIBLE FOR THE FUNDING CUT OFF..BUSH. and why isn't the MSM reporting this. And besides why did it take so long to get the vehicles. They have know from the very beginning that they needed these type of vehicles, four years ago and they are just getting them ready.