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To: maxwellp
Check out the military news links, maxwell: Centcom.mil, Defend America, etc., for updates on the communications and mail situations. The military's been up front with the press from the start of the war. Many units have laptops and access to phones, now. Mail is getting to the troops, but getting it to them is not easy. First, because there was SO much mail from home they couldn't process it and get it to the troops before the troops reached Baghdad. Now, the mail convoys are rather like the Pony Express - except instead of attacks from Indians across wide open spaces - we have regime dead-enders without a future waiting to ambush our troops from behind sand dunes and bushes (we take out FAR more of THEM!).

Every American pundit should have a good idea of the situation on the ground in Iraq by now - the size of the country (~ California), number of Iraqis (over 24 million), Coalition troops (over 146,000), and the nature of the enemy - the small percentage of Iraqis - the regime dead-enders and terrorist wannabes without a future who will continue to attack our convoys until we take them out - and we will.

It's like the wild west over there - with REALLY dishonorable thugs and our guys as Sheriffs and Rangers. The press (and Bill O'Reilly) should be informed. They should be going to the PRIMARY news sources on Iraq - CENTCOM and DoD - daily. Their ignorance - two months after the liberation of Baghdad - is inexcusable. They are entrusted with informing the world. They are failing. OUR troops are doing important, noble and difficult work daily - and doing it damn well. They deserve better from the press!

3 posted on 07/05/2003 7:59:03 PM PDT by Ragtime Cowgirl (We're in a global war on terrorism..If you want to call that a quagmire, do it. I don't.*Rummy* 6-30)
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To: Ragtime Cowgirl
Many thanks for the information! I e-mailed CentCom and asked if there was any way we could e-mail our support for our troops while they are in Iraq. I really think they could benefit from Americans who love them, honor them and thank them.
4 posted on 07/12/2003 6:36:32 PM PDT by maxwellp (Throw the U.N. in the garbage where it belongs.)
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