I interrupt this Jeremiah Miley Fest to bring you word, via Kelley Vlahos at the American Conservative blog, of hearings yesterday on the Hill in which former employees of Kellogg Brown and Root (KBR) testified about appalling things that allegedly went on in Iraq. Such as:
I saw large, ten foot deep trenches dug in the sand where computers, electronic
equipment, and military items that could not be burned were buried. I asked military personal, “Why not send the wood and equipment to other bases?” I was told that it is cheaper to destroy everything and mark it off as destroyed by “the war” than to pay for the truck transport and find adequate storage…[snip]
I came to testify before you today because I saw how the troops suffered and put at greater risk because of the shoddy work by KBR employees and the wasteful spending of KBR management. I would do anything to help the military and I hope that my testimony today will make a difference for the troops.
Why is this stuff not getting covered? Why are more politicians not raising hell about it? John McCain, you are a veteran -- why your silence?
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HA! I left Bragg in 2005 and they're just NOW getting reports of the barracks? If they think Bragg is horrid, wait till they do the Airborne and RIP barracks at Benning.
I consider this an extraordinarily important topic to think about in the coming pre-election months . . . but it's already out-commented by the lesbians, not to mention the "Jeremiah Miley Fest" in its many incarnations. To me this speaks louder than words. The treatment of our own soldiers both in the field and when they come home, as if they are used equipment to be written off, like the buried computers, hardly rates a discussion.
For the love of mercy, at least go to youtube and watch the video in which an outraged father documents the conditions at Fort Bragg that await soldiers returning home from as many as three tours of duty in Afghanistan.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B4P-camUjjk
This is disgusting. It is outrageous. It made me feel like gagging. But hey . . . I guess it's more important to dither over lapel flags and photo shoots . . . .
Sig,
Reality... What a Concept!, by Robin Williams.
"But hey . . . I guess it's more important to dither over lapel flags and photo shoots . . . ."
And coffee machines, and cigarettes, and whatever else the GOP talking points for the day happen to be.
Remember, Sig...as long as this blog bears the GOP logo in its header, you know what to expect.
Ser VanBuren, if I wanted to read a blog that always covered things I wanted to see, in ways with which I agreed, I wouldn't be here.
Just wondering: why are you here?
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