Supporting the troops...

Won't someone please tell the president, vice-president and their cronies that even if they're going to destroy other countries that they ought to at least support the troops who do their dirty caprices? In fact, won't someone tell them that it's bad to harm the troops? If it isn't, doesn't that mean that trying to win a war is pointless? Or does this just mean that anything for a buck that ultimately goes into the pockets of Cheney and Bush is okay? Bush-Cheney-Halliburton-Etc.: the Anything Goes Presidency.

Troops and civilians at a U.S. military base in Iraq were exposed to contaminated water last year and employees for the responsible contractor, Halliburton, couldn't get their company to inform camp residents, according to interviews and internal company documents.

Halliburton, the company formerly headed by Vice President Dick Cheney, disputes the allegations about water problems at Camp Junction City, in Ramadi, even though they were made by its own employees and documented in company e-mails.

"We exposed a base camp population (military and civilian) to a water source that was not treated," said a July 15, 2005, memo written by William Granger, the official for Halliburton's KBR subsidiary who was in charge of water quality in Iraq and Kuwait.

"The level of contamination was roughly 2x the normal contamination of untreated water from the Euphrates River," Granger wrote in one of several documents.