Improvements in mail delivery to Iraq hailed

[RamboLiberal]

http://www.estripes.com/article.asp?section=104&article=22131

Joe Britton just wanted to help his nephew in Iraq by sending him some care packages.

But since Britton started mailing boxes in February, Spc. Charles Milliken has received only one of them. Both are starting to lose hope that the other three — stuffed with toothbrushes, shaving cream and snacks — will ever make it.

“The sad thing is it’s what him and the guys around him need,” said Britton by telephone from his home in Quitman, Texas.

Mail is a huge morale booster for troops on the front lines, but a General Accounting Office report released last month said its delivery to troops in Iraq and Kuwait could be much better.

Although the military has tried to fix problems from the 1991 Persian Gulf War, the GAO reported that many of the same problems have plagued mail delivery.

[prolesunited]

1. I wonder

do the trains run on time as well?

To the point, I'm glad the troops are getting their deliveries.

[diamond14]

2. it's truly obscene that bush* forces military families to provide

basic supplies, like toothbrushes...or mosquito spray or suntan lotion, bandaids, aspirins and more to OUR troops...including their bullet-proof vests...why doesn't halliburton provide the equipment necessary to prevent disease and maintain some sanitation in camps...why, because they keep all the MONEY for themselves...

these basic supplies MUST be paid for by bush*'s military complex and war-profiteers....it's obscene to pass the costs onto OUR soldiers' families....


worse, our soldiers' families scimp and save to provide for our troops and bush* makes them pay the postage, then bush*'s halliburton war-profiteers don't even deliver it...probably keep it for themselves or sell it on the black market...