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

To: Thomas A Watson who wrote (440080)	8/8/2003 3:10:17 PM
From: Red Heeler	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

It must be the heat, Baby. ------------------------------------------------------------ Friday, August 8, 2003 Letters for the week of July 27-August 2, 2003 My name is Pfc. John Bendetti. I’m assigned to the 220th Military Police Company with the Colorado Army National Guard. We arrived in Kuwait one month before the war started. Just before the war ended, we were sent to Iraq. We arrived during the “winter” months. We’ve been living at Tallil Air Base. We’re currently living off Meals, Ready to Eat, T-rations, and junk food from the local post exchange. We’re also currently living without air conditioning. During the day the temperature reaches 127 degrees in the shade. Due to more attacks on convoys, more items are becoming rare. Two examples are mail and bottled water. Our mail has been reduced to two times a week. Due to a lack of bottled water, each soldier has been limited to two 1.5 liter bottles a day. We’ve had two soldiers drop out due to heat-related injuries. A person with common sense knows that a normal person can’t survive on three liters of water a day. One would think that the Army could coordinate with the Air Force and have supplies flown in from Kuwait. All I’m saying is that we’ve been “climatized” to the heat, but new troops have not. There will continue to be more heat casualties until something is done. Hopefully we won’t have to lose someone because of someone’s stupidity. We need to come up with a solution quick! Pfc. John Bendetti Tallil, Iraq Link: estripes.com CC The Bush Baby's call sounds like the shouts of an excited child.