Bushco - $till '$upporting' our troops

Christy Hardin Smith - FireDogLake

What would you say if I told you that American soldiers were being knowingly subjected to unclean water, that the Pentagon and Halliburton, the contractor in charge of delivery of this e.coli and coliform collection, knew this via multiple reports from military doctors who have had to treat our soldiers for contamination issues…and that our troops would have been safer to just dip water out of the Euphrates (where dead bodies float by regularly these days) because the raw river water is less contaminated than what they are being given?

What if I told you that the Republican controlled House and Senate have not even bothered to have an oversight hearing on this issue — not one – because maintaining their rose-colored glasses illusion is more important than keeping our troops safe?

Nothing like our troops brushing their teeth in non-potable water day in and day out as a morale booster, I always say, because it's so easy to keep an eye out for IEDs and ambushes and a steady hand on the machine gun when you are doubled over with intestinal pain. Jeebus, what is wrong with these people?!? As if our soldiers don't have enough to deal with as it is in Iraq, an American company with the complicity of the GOP leadership of Congress and Rummy's Pentagon do nothing to clean up this water mess because, clearly, water would be of no real value while our soldiers are serving in the desert.

And who still gets checks from Halliburton?

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