“For over a decade, the military has been shifting its supply and support personnel into combat jobs and hiring defense contractors to do the rest. And the process has accelerated under Defense Secretary Rumsfeld.

And despite the alleged wonders of private enterprise, those companies have left soldiers in filth, heat, and garbage.” CommonDreams

Not considering for the moment the fact that they were sent into the lions’s den on false pretenses and are paying for it daily with their life and limb; see their lives flashing in front of their eyes in the form of an open-ended occupation; have bounties placed on their heads by the people they have ‘liberated’; are succumbing to a mysterious multi-organ failure disease that may be a result of toxic exposure; etc. etc.,