This article makes me sick that the debunkers and their pup-pet
in the White House do NOT support our troops.  Isn't that
just like the debunkers to say one thing, but mean
the total opposite!!  Who are the traitors?  Just ask
any debunker to look in the mirror, there is
your truth-terrorist!!!

In article <bhri77$s54$1@pencil.math.missouri.edu>, President, USA Exile Govt.
says...

Forwarded with Compliments of Government of the USA in Exile (GUSAE): 
Free Americans Resisting the Fourth Reich on Behalf of All Species. 
NOTE:  Thanks to Rick Davis for this.   --  kl, pp

On August 9, a 3rd Corps Support Command soldier died from heat stress
while riding in a convoy north of Ad Diwaniyah. There are news reports that
chronic water shortages are limiting American troops to two 1.5 liter
bottles a day, despite the 100-degree-plus heat.

Meanwhile, the Army Times newspaper reports that the troops are being
nickel-and-dimed at home by the White House and its allies in Congress. A
modest proposal to double the $6,000 gratuity paid to families of soldiers
who die on active duty was opposed by the White House as wasteful and
unnecessary. The Administration also wants to roll back recent increases in
monthly pay for troops in imminent danger (from $225 to $150) and the
family separation allowance for troops in combat zones (from $250 to $100).

Army Times also reports that this tax-cut obsessed administration hasn't
managed to find time to make progress on minor tax provisions that would be
a boon to military homeowners, reservists who travel long distances for
training and parents deployed to combat zones, among others.

President Bush also cut $1.5 billion of the military construction budget, which
means the troops can look forward to more substandard housing on bases
back home. An attempt by Rep. David Obey (D-WI) to restore $1 billion of the
funds by trimming the tax break for the 200,000 Americans who make over
$1 million a year from $88,300 to $83,500 was shot down by the Republican
majority on the House Appropriations committee.

While the troops are shortchanged, other special interest groups are
getting far better treatment in Iraq. President Bush's Executive Order
13303, issued May 22nd, declares that any attachment, judgment, decree,
lien, execution, garnishment, or other judicial process is prohibited, and
shall be deemed null and void regarding the Development Fund for Iraq and
all Iraqi petroleum and petroleum products, and interests therein. What
this means is if any American oil company touches Iraqi oil, its actions
will be immune from legal proceedings in the U.S.  Tanker accidents, oil
refinery explosions, exploitation of local labor, air pollution -- oil
companies and their executives cannot be held liable for any of these.

Oil and gas companies gave nearly $1.9 million to President Bush for his
2000 campaign according to the Center for Responsive Politics; so far
they've contributed another $412,000 for his re-election campaign. Of the
583 publicly-identified members of Bush's Pioneers -- well-connected
individuals who pledged to raise at least $100,000 each for his 2000
campaign -- more than 70 came from the energy sector, according to Texans
for Public Justice.

Soldiers, most of whom make less than $30,000 a year, are unlikely to give
campaign contributions.

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Catherine Powell, Outreach Archivist
Labor Archives and Research Center, SFSU
480 Winston Drive
San Francisco, CA 94132
(415) 564-4010 * powell@sfsu.edu
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