There are people there who have spent 140-150 days with no hot food, the temperature there is 120 degrees, and they’re getting three liters of rationed water a day. The tools of war making are flowing in, but the basic needs of the soldiers are not. The guys are writing home saying, "Please send me toothpaste," "Please send me toilet paper." And yet, when you go to the military to ask them to comment on this, you're talking to career soldiers who say everything's fine, we’re gonna kick some Iraqi ass. And it’s just bullshit.

( Lou Plummer, antiwar activist and member of Military Families Speak Out, spoke with Socialist Worker’s. Complete interview here: www.socialistworker.org/2003-2/468/468_05_Plummer.shtml )