Letters to the Editor
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I am screaming!!!!
I worked in Iraq for 3 years as a KBR truck driver. Going on hundreds of convoys, I guarantee I spent more time 'outside the wire' than 95% of the soldiers. Remember, the vast majority of them are just support troops in the GIGANTIC CITY/BASES all over Iraq and in Kuwait. One thing I have never understood is how people assume there is some 'special knowledge' gained by physically visiting the place. WTF?!! The US doesn't trust the Iraqis so at least in my situation there was zero interaction. If an Iraqi gets near a convoy, they blow him/her away. The only thing I learned is the totally unbelievable amount of wasted money. I lived a higher lifestyle over in Iraq than as a truck driver in the US because no expense in barred on these bases. We had huge gyms with state of the art equipment, cafeterias with steak & lobster and 12 types of desserts, massage parlors, 24/7 AC, big screen tvs, barber shops, free laundry, and on and on and on. Goddamn, Rich Lowry can kiss my ass if he thinks he knows what's going on. For some reason we have elevated the military into Gods and they are spending money like no tomorrow (on one base they built a golf driving range). We are five years into this damn thing and the US public still doesn't know how it is being milked for the biggest rip-off of history.