Nat'l Guard Living In Unprotected Tents At Iraq Base

[Lou_C]

Nat'l Guard Living In Unprotected Tents At Iraq Base

Wilmington Star-News
5-27-4

(AP) -- Regular Army soldiers in Iraq sleep in fortified accommodations while National Guard troops are in unprotected tents and using filthy showers, according to e-mail messages from several North Carolina soldiers.

Staff Sgt. Roosevelt McPherson of Raeford said in a series of e-mail messages from Forward Operating Base McKenzie near Samarra that the National Guard soldiers have nowhere to seek shelter from almost daily mortar attacks, The News & Observer reported Wednesday.

McPherson serves in the Monroe-based B Battery of the 1-113th Field Artillery.

"The regular Army troops have bunkers, hangars or fortified connexes," he wrote. "It is only by the grace and mercy of God that no one has been injured or even worse."

Army officials said Tuesday that the base is not attacked as often as McPherson claims but that they are working to provide safer accommodations for the Guard troops.

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"Why hasn't this been reported on? I know why the Bush Media wouldn't want anyone finding out about this"

[grasswire]

1. that link didn't work for me

....can you post it again?

[lazarus]

2. try this

Bush loves the National Guard

[Moderator]

3. Hi Lou_C

per our rules regarding copyright, please post only 4 paragraphs or less with a link to copyrighted material

[liberalitch]

4. You know what Gen. Lee's last words were....

"Strike the tent."

[ConcernedCanuk]

5. I heard Rumsfeld is going to solve the tent problem right away

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All e-mails will be edited by their supervisors before sending.

THERE

problem solved!

[GreenPartyVoter]

6. Stupid "war-lite" PNACers

put our people as far out into harm's way as possible.

[Betty The Younger]

7. "less than once a week."!!!!!! What the "he double ll!"

Palmer also challenged the idea that the base is attacked often, saying it had been shelled by mortars once and "rocket attacks are less than once a week."

So I wonder if Palmer is living in a tent there? Is his son or daughter in that base getting shelled "less than once a week?" This is the most poorly planned incompetent run war in the history of warmaking. This will be studied for decades as a way NOT to run a war! Horrible that our brave soldiers are paying a terrible price while the neocon chickenhawks are safely behind bunkers in Washington D.C. Kind of ironic isn't it? That Bush and his cabal are the most protected men on the face of the planet and those they send inot war are the most vulneralble because of their policies?