funny story, i'm writing naked for the second time in a row. i love having a computer in my room!
but that's not why i'm here.
i'm here because i've been reminded of another story for all of you who aren't in the states and maybe, maybe sumo.

this one is from air america. basically it's liberal radio. sara and i were in the car driving to our nursing assistant course the other day and we heard about something on the Randi Rhodes show that made me incredibly angry with what is happening in Iraq. i think that by now most of the world and most of the U.S. citizenry realize that the war in Iraq is a sham. we feel terrible for the loss of life in this and we want it to end as soon as possible. there's a good possibility we'll be fighting for 12 more years (this according to Donald Rumsfeld, the Secretary of Defense) and we've set up what will be a permanent presence in the area. already we have 3 or 4 permanent bases operational. this makes sense and i agree with the intent. our alliance with the saudi royal family is going to end soon because they will be deposed soon. we still need oil and we still need forces in the area to secure our supply so those bases make good sense politically. but there's a kicker to the whole unjustified war, there's a haliburton subsidiary that's supposedly feeding our troops. long story short i could do a better job with a pickup truck and a spatula up my ass.
the issue at hand is that this company has been feeding our troops expired rations and rations that have been compromised by shrapnel and bullets. a whistle-blower tells them that they need to stop and what do they do? send him to the front lines in the hopes that he'll be killed (this is just a theory...)
normally you don't do that unless you want to silence somebody. now if you aren't pissed that these bastards are feeding our troops bad food there's more! yeah, it gets worse...way worse. they save the rations that are actually fresh for themselves and have little "executive dinners" at the taxpayer's expense. oh, and they've been over-billing 5,000 meals every single day for "overflow capacity" that they will never need because they are no longer a staging base so they only have a garrison to feed at this base- called Anaconda i believe.
so...you have a company affiliated with the company our illustrious vice president used to be the CEO for being awarded a no-bid contract to do something we've trained cooks in our armed forces to do and they can't even do what they're payed to do for these troops!!!
i fucking hate this system!