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cliss Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-19-03 09:43 PM
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8. Once again, a case of
misguided principles. We're spending $3.9 billion per month, and the soldiers who are risking their lives, are only receiving $225 per month? Where is the rest going? Oh, that's right. Senator Kennedy informed us that the rest is being used to bribe other countries into jumping in and being a part of the action.

So where are they? We've been at this for, what? six months? We've spent $24 billion, and they are still holding out on us?

I also read that US soldiers are getting really crappy food rations, while Marriott Sodexho is charging the government $175 per day to provide them with food. A soldier's 'last supper' might consist of a stale, preservative filled MRE dinner in a plastic pouch.

Stan Goff wrote, "this man is risking alienating the very people who would carry out his plans".
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