Drinking the TIgris: New Shots from Baghdad

Some new shots from Baghdad. Click on the picture for the stories. The most important one, is the bottom shot with note included.

This, for me, is the untold story of this war. All the labor; cleaning, cooking and washing is done by S. Asian laborers. Their pay is meager. The guys who clean at the Dining Facility work 12 hours per day seven days a week and make, in total, $350.00 per month. If Nike or Coca Cola made a fat profit off their backs the way KBR does, people would be up in arms. But nobody knows about this, and it's happening at every base in Iraq. In our Dining Facility there are NO Americans serving food. Maybe one now and then. The staff is well over 25 guys per shift and they serve thousands of meals per day. They clean the floors, take out the trash, pour the coffee, they work the registers at the PX, they do everything except fight.

This will be part of the American legacy in Iraq. Someday these guys will go home and tell their friends and families about us. What will they say? It breaks my heart to even think about it.

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Betsy:

I MISS YOU, EMAIL ME, I HOPE ALL IS WELL.

Doing fine Betsy! How are you?????

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