In article <3F2FFD10.1030105@frontiernet.net>, hugh says...

Sir Arthur C. B. E. Wholeflaffers A.S.A. wrote:

In article <bgn1es$87h$1@pencil.math.missouri.edu>, Dave Muller says...

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United States military casualties in Iraq are running at more than twice 
the number most Americans have been led to believe they are. The public 
is largely unaware of a high number of accidents, suicides and other 
non-combat deaths.

*Death marches at double in Iraq but US public unaware*
By Julian Borger in Washington
August 5 2003

United States military casualties in Iraq are running at more than twice 
the number most Americans have been led to believe they are. The public 
is largely unaware of a high number of accidents, suicides and other 
non-combat deaths.

And why pray tell havent you commited suicide?

For comments like this you plug up this newsgroup.
First it's the irrational The Sludge/Sage,
the anal-fixated Wider-Sham,
the ultra-spOOk O-BORG,
Whore-House Bob,
Bwa-bwa nut-case Davis
and the rest of the Cult of Useful Idiots.

Earth to Hughe/Sucke: Grab a life!!

U.S. Army Obstructs Inquiry into Post-War Iraq Contracts

Public Citizen Appeals U.S. Army's Denial of Paper Trail on Post-War Iraq
Contracts

WASHINGTON, D.C. - Public Citizen has appealed the U.S. Army's denial
of its Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request for written
justifications and approvals of decisions that limited competitive bids
for reconstruction contracts in post-war Iraq. In denying Public
Citizen's March 25 request, the Army asserted that no relevant
information was available.

The Army awarded at least one contract in Iraq to Kellogg Brown & Root
Services (KBR), a division of Halliburton, to repair and rebuild Iraq's
petroleum production, refining and distribution systems.  Letters from
the Army Corps of Engineers to Rep. Henry Waxman (D-Calif.) state that
the Corps awarded the KBR contract following approval by Army
headquarters.  However, in the FOIA denial, the Army attested that it
has no documents concerning the approval of the contract.

"The Army's determination that no responsive records exist is plainly
erroneous," Public Citizen's appeal letter states. "The only possible
explanation for this determination is either that an inadequate search
was conducted or that the search was unreasonably restricted to exclude
the bodies of records that would be expected to contain the records
requested."

Public Citizen appealed the Army's denial of relevant records due to
the clear conflict between the information provided by the Army to
Congress about KBR's contract in Iraq and the Army's claim that it lacks
information on how that company landed the contract. Public Citizen made
its original FOIA request after media reports suggested that the
Department of Defense was circumventing competitive bidding procedures
in awarding procurement contracts to rebuild post-war Iraq.

This is one of two outstanding Public Citizen FOIA requests pending
regarding the awarding of contracts in post-war Iraq. Public Citizen
filed a second FOIA with the U.S. Agency for International Development
(US AID), which has awarded a number of no-bid contracts. US AID
continues to process Public Citizen's request.

The letter of appeal can be read online at
http://www.citizen.org/documents/armyfoiaappeal.pdf.

The original Freedom of Information Act request can be read online at
http://www.citizen.org/documents/DoDFOIAiraq.pdf.

Two Army letters rejecting the FOIA can be read online at
http://www.citizen.org/documents/armyfoia.pdf and
http://www.citizen.org/documents/armyfoia2.pdf.