[Travis McGee]

Easy for you to say, MM. Now, move to Arizona and live on the dirt with no shower, mail or phones, eating only MREs for a few weeks and get back to me.

I don't have much use for Hack either, but this is his arena: the proper care and feeding of the troops.

[Miss Marple]

Travis, I have no desire to see the troops treated badly.

Hackworth being the source of this story is my problem.

If there is another, credible source about this issue that backs him up, I will be the first one firing off a nasty letter to Bush, Rumsfeld and the Joint Chiefs.

It isn't that I don't have sympathy with poor conditions and the miseries caused by lazy supply-line people; it is that Hackworth has been so wrong on so many things and he has a definite animus against Rumsfeld, that I mistrust anything he prints.

[arasina]

I just posted a response and called the letter writer a whiner. I apologize. I really DON'T know what it's like for our men and women who are serving our country over in Iraq. God bless 'em, I hope they do get better treatment and necessary supplies and support. Thanks for the pinch, Travis.