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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: Brasco One who wrote (293338)7/4/2006 7:42:10 PM
From: American Spirit   of 1573375
 
The reality of Ramadi, Iraq for US troops. Which ain't no Ramada Inn.

Excerpt from the Times article:

"The Government Center in the middle of this devastated town resembles a fortress on the wild edge of some frontier: It's sandbagged, barricaded, full of men ready to shoot, surrounded by rubble and enemies eager to get inside.

The American Marines here live eight to a room, rarely shower for lack of running water and defecate in bags that are taken outside and burned. The threat of snipers is ever-present; daytime temperatures hover around 120 degrees. The food is tasteless; the windows boarded up. The place reeks of urine. The casualties are heavy, too.

So it goes in this epicenter of the Iraqi insurgency and the focus of a grinding struggle between American forces and the guerrillas."

* I'm sure the Bushie rightwing media will be outraged that some truth was written about in the NY Times. They will now accuse the Times of being traitors again for describing our situation in Iraq accurately. And btw, reporters who get a story like that risk their lives getting it, contrary to what Laura Ingraham lied to us about, that reporters are writing from Green Zone hotel rooms. More than 90 reporters have been killed in Iraq already, more than in all of Vietnam.
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