I can't believe this.

[misterx]

http://www.ajc.com/news/content/news/0803/14paycut.html

"WASHINGTON -- The Pentagon wants to cut the pay of its 148,000 U.S. troops in Iraq, who are already contending with guerrilla-style attacks, homesickness and 120-degree-plus heat."

Comments

Good

[shirokarasu.livejournal.com]

We need more shit like this to happen... We need that administration out of there.. Let them continuing to show their stripes. I know its not fair to our troops, but we need the loss of support. We need people pissed off. To get our current regime out

Re: Good

[misterx.livejournal.com]

Can you imagine how demoralizing that would be? Man, somebody needs a smack.

Re: yea

[shirokarasu.livejournal.com]

but it needs to happen sorry to say.... The miltary makes up a large portion of the population...so if they turn them against them mebbe we can not have a repeat administration ne?

Forgive me but I can

[chiefted]

We actually have some units over in the Gulf too. One of the bigger ships that was there during the war was "outside" of the area that the Pentagon had defined as the "Hazardous Area" so they lost awhole bunch of pay and they didn't get the tax benifits either (if you are in the "war zone" you are exempt from taxes for a spell).

Kinda one of the reasons I am glad I am on the outside looking in now.

Re: Forgive me but I can

[misterx.livejournal.com]

It's easier to imagine that being geographically remote might exempt you from the pay upgrade, but there is no doubt the people on the ground are in harms way.

Believe it

[nodakwriter.livejournal.com]

Quote of the day from workingforchange.org


George Bush and Donald Rumsfeld care about the troops in the same way that Tyson Foods cares about chickens.
-- Retired Army master sergeant Stan Goff whose son was recently deployed to Iraq