Troops in Iraq face pay cut

[shanti]

http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2003/08/14/MN94780.DTL

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.

Unless Congress and President Bush take quick action when Congress returns after Labor Day, the uniformed Americans in Iraq and the 9,000 in Afghanistan will lose a pay increase approved last April of $75 a month in "imminent danger pay" and $150 a month in "family separation allowances."

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[GCP]

1. How they are going to spin this is beyond me

And how they are going to prevent mutiny and AWOLs is also beyond me.

[Zero Gravitas]

2. Dupe

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=102&topic_id=65711&mesg_id=65711

[KCDem]

3. when will the military realize that Repugs hate them?

Sheesh, how many times can the military get *ed by Bushco? If the Dems can convince A) military and B) lower-class and lower-middle class people that we have their best interest in mind, not the Repugs, we just might start winning elections again.

[realFedUp]

4. Sounds like "bidness" as usual...

Taxpayers are paying a billion a week for what? Corporate
heads getting windfalls and the workers (soldiers) getting packaged
MRE's, no overtime pay and no vacation.

[otohara]

5. Locking - dupe

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=102&topic_id=65711&mesg_id=65711