At least the Iraqi's have barracks, dilapitated or not. American soldiers get run down warehouses - that's if they're lucky. They seldom get the luxury of a shower and stay clean as best they can using baby wipes that the folks back home send them in care packages. It is not unusual to for them to get as little as a quart of clean drinking water per day.
The US military simply does not have the man power to fully police the occupation of Iraq, and the majority of people in the US have no understanding of the hardships our troops are suffering.
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