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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: JakeStraw who wrote (427885)	7/16/2003 3:16:01 PM
From: Raymond Duray	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

BUSH ANGERS THE TROOPS: Reserves Wanting to Leave Mideast augustachronicle.com mediawhoresonline.com Speaking by cell phone from Kuwait, members of the Augusta-based Army Reserve unit say their extended stay in the desert - and their elusive return date - is having a maddening effect on morale. Making matters worse, they're living in 120-degree temperatures, pulling guard duty at a base in Kuwait and riding shotgun in civilian fuel trucks on convoys into Iraq. They are working for an Army battalion that wasn't in the Middle East during the brunt of the war, as they were. The 319th is now working for the Army's 260th Quartermaster Battalion. It is stationed at Camp Arifjan, south of Kuwait City. Soldiers say most of their work involves civilian contractor Kellogg Brown and Root, a subsidiary of Vice President Dick Cheney's former company, Halliburton Corp. The company has contracts to haul fuel, and 319th members are riding along as armed escorts. "The main reason we're still here is to support Brown and Root," said Sgt. 1st Class David Uthe, 45, of Augusta.