If they supported the troops any better, they'd be killing them.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Dozens of U.S. troops in Iraq fell sick at bases using "unmonitored and potentially unsafe" water supplied by the military and a contractor once owned by Vice President Dick Cheney's former company, the Pentagon's internal watchdog says.
A report obtained by The Associated Press said soldiers experienced skin abscesses, cellulitis, skin infections, diarrhea and other illnesses after using discolored, smelly water for personal hygiene and laundry at five U.S. military sites in Iraq.
The Pentagon's inspector general found water quality problems between March 2004 and February 2006 at three sites run by contractor KBR Inc., and between January 2004 and December 2006 at two military-operated locations.
It was impossible to link the dirty water definitively to all the illnesses, according to the report. But it said KBR's water quality "was not maintained in accordance with field water sanitary standards" and the military-run sites "were not performing all required quality control tests."
I'm going to give everyone a reality check. The government doesn't care about no one in Iraq. That would be the troops and the Iraqi citizens. Our govenment are the ones that started this war, our government are the ones that have us (civilian and military alike) over in another country yet again for no reason. If the people of that country want change, if the people in ANY country want change they need to do it themselves like the African-Americans did in the US. We (military) went over there with the impression that we were going to restore order but it has turned into nothing but the US government being greedy and thinking about themselves. No one cares not even the damn US citizens in the US about what's going on over there or how our government is getting over. No one cares about the gas prices going up, if they did the prices wouldn't keep going up like they still are. Bush knows what he's doing, he's laughing at all this because he knows you can't stop him..we can make all the movies and get on line a post all these comments but in the end nothing will happen