Well, we must be winning if the troops eat so well....

Can't decide whether this is a recruiting message or is just to piss off the Iraqis some more:

"The one thing all the soldiers agree on is that the living conditions are much better now. Instead of sleeping on sidewalks, they live two to a room in a barracks with running water and electricity. They eat hot meals in a mess hall run by KBR, a U.S. contractor, instead of prepackaged meals.

"I haven't had so much lobster in my life," Staff Sgt. Thomas Slago of Los Angeles said of the weekly "surf and turf" menu of lobster tail and steak.

But while life is more comfortable inside the garrison walls, with a television in almost every room, outside a war is still raging."

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=540&e=12&u=/ap/20050305/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq_attack_is_back

Can you imagine the machine-signed letter, "I regret to inform you that your son/daughter/husband/wife was killed by a roadside bomb while making a rush delivery of lobster tails and Angus beef...?

I really don't see Bush sending them tvs, lobster and steak.

says: "Surf and Turf night is now Creamed Chipped Beef on Toast night, effective immediately. Any remaining lobster tails and steaks are to be delivered to the steward of the officer's mess."

Dunno about TV's, maybe brought from home like body armor or "liberated?"

It seems the only area that he economizes in is when it comes to actual people. He is an odd combination of wild spending and cheapskate, while seemingly untouched by a conscience.

...Creamed Chipped Beef on Toast, "Shit-on-a-shingle"

what that was.

Especially when it's still in rolls before slicing.

full of it or what.

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everything they need to win the war and come home, and maybe even a little more . . . but no matter how far you stretch it, they do NOT need lobster tails . . . or tv in every room . . . or even catered dining, especially since the prices we're paying for these catered meals is no doubt outrageous . . . of course, BushCo has no intention whatsoever of winning and leaving, so maybe they're just making the troops as comfortable as possible to intice them to stay longer . . . or at least not bitch too loudly when their tours are extended . . . and extended . . . and extended . . .

going back to school but was instead "stop-lossed" and sent back to Iraq. Sounds like he was under orders not to bitch much, but read it and form your own conclusions.

What would you charge for a lobster tail in Baghdad under a no-bid contract?

notice how many of them are saying PLEASE don't send us any food or snacks as we are fed to the gills with LOBSTER.

BULLSHIT!!!!!

There will be plenty of time for that once they get back to the states.

This really is some over the top progaganda isn't it? In World War II it was fresh ice cream, in Vietnam it was cold Budweiser, in Iraq-surf and turf.

I spoke to my friend's brother while he was in Iraq. He had eaten lobster & something else good for dinner on Sunday night. Apparently, that had been special for Sunday night. It was also his first tour over there. He said most meals were not like that. That must have been nearly a year ago.

He has been there twice, and came home "to stay" a few weeks ago. According to him, he is not going back. (Mechanic in the National Guard)

And it looks like we will have to pay service men some thing to get them to stay until we use up the oil. Either that or they will all get out and join up with 'Custer Battle' and be forces to make 100.000 a year. This may be the war that brakes the tax payers back.Even some Republicans are starting to write about the crooks in DC stealing from us and the war machine take over.

Dried beef slices in milk gravy - AKA 'foreskins on toast.'

Oh,you mean KBR as in Kellogg/Brown/Root as in HALLIBURTON?? Why couldn't they just come out and say who was really running that NO BID contract?

It wasn't a year ago that food and the mess hall conditons served up by KBR were so bad they would be shut down if they operated in the US,now its all tails and roses.

Sounds like a BS planted story to me....

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even back in the summer of 2003. Even out in the boonies of Iraq (as far as our occupation was concerned). Hell, the DoD must have tons of money because the soldiers in my husband's unit were GIVEN the TV's upon their return to the US. We got one, it's pretty big but had to have the electrical cord changed to fit US outlets. Wouldn't it be cheaper to use the TV's for the next group coming into Iraq? Then that money spent on buying new TV's, VCR's, etc. could be spent on ARMOR

Edit: had too many to's in a row :)