Re: [iwar] Only 57 IWAR emails during my 4 months in Iraq

Per the message sent by Rob Rosenberger:

> >>And just how many of them did you find?

> I can't tell you. The number zero is classified.

> Rob

I thought so. But it was a good vacation - a few skin diseases coming
over the next few years asise.

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'Baghdad Boil' disease afflicts 148 GIs in Iraq
USA Today | Dec. 5, 2003 12:00 AM | Anita Manning

Nearly 150 U.S. soldiers in Iraq have been diagnosed with a parasitic
skin disease and hundreds more could unknowingly be infected, doctors
reported Thursday.

Doctors fear that soldiers returning from the front may consult doctors
in the United States who have never seen the disease. Complicating
matters: The best drug used to treat it is not licensed in the United
States.

Leishmaniasis, which soldiers have coined the "Baghdad Boil," is
carried by biting sand flies and doesn't spread from person to person.
It causes skin lesions that if untreated may take months, even years,
to heal. The lesions can be disfiguring, doctors say.

So far, 148 soldiers have confirmed cases, but hundreds more are
expected, says Army Lt. Col. Russell Coleman, an entomologist who spent
10 months in Iraq with the 520th Theater Army Medical Laboratory. He
reported the outbreak Thursday to the American Society of Tropical
Medicine and Hygiene, meeting in Philadelphia.

Sand flies are active during warm weather, and soon after U.S. troops
arrived in Iraq in late March, "we started seeing soldiers basically
eaten alive," Coleman says. "They'd get a hundred, in some cases 1,000
bites in a single night."

Insect repellants and bed nets are standard issue, Coleman says, but
many units failed to pack them when they were deployed.

The sand flies have vanished with the cooler weather in Iraq, but
because of a long incubation period, lesions may not appear for six
months or longer after infection occurs. Coleman and Army Lt. Col.
Peter Weina, a leishmaniasis expert still in Iraq, predicted in April
that there would be 400 cases.

All affected soldiers are being sent to Walter Reed Army Medical Center
in Washington, D.C., to be treated with the drug Pentosam.

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But onto something else...

New York Daily News
December 5, 2003
We're Still Learning How Evil Saddam Was
By A.M. Rosenthal
Sometimes, when I'm thinking of writing about Saddam Hussein, I dream at
night of young Iraqis walking along the streets of their cities. They look
normal, except for one thing: They are all dead. I realize that all of them
are utterly silent and have the faces of new corpses.

Long Island Newsday
December 4, 2003
Put The Blame On Cheney For U.S. Mess In Iraq
By James Klurfeld
This isn't how Papa Bush and the handlers thought it would work out. Not
when they put solid Dick Cheney in charge of the kid's government.
With all of his experience in government, from White House chief of staff to
congressional leader to secretary of defense, Cheney was the one who would
avoid the big mistakes, who would make up for Junior's lack of experience.
And yet President George W. Bush is going into his re-election year with one
huge mess on his hands in Iraq. It isn't only that much of the world is
bewildered if not downright scared at the administration's arrogant
unilateralism; it's that a good segment of the American people have begun to
question the president's judgment and credibility because of how Iraq was
handled.

Dallas Morning News
December 5, 2003
Priest Tells Troops To Disobey Orders
By Associated Press
SPRINGER, N.M. - A Catholic priest and longtime peace activist says he
ordered soldiers from here to "in the name of God" disobey military orders
to go to Iraq.

Economist
December 6-12, 2003
Language and existentialism
Rumspeak
Donald Rumsfeld speaks his mind with unusual clarity. Give him an award
It probably troubles him little, but among those who loathe the Bush
administration around the world, Donald Rumsfeld is a hate-figure rivalled
only by George Bush. And as with the president, a favourite line of attack
is his abuse of the English language. Jacob Weisberg, a leftish American
journalist, has compiled a couple of books of "Bushisms", casting a
patronising look at the everyday verbal glitches of a homespun Texan. More
recently "Pieces of Intelligence: the Existential Poetry of Donald H.
Rumsfeld", by Hart Seely, mockingly recasts in blank verse some of the
defence secretary's turns of phrase.

'We Didn't Realize We Were At War'; America's unusual assortment of allies
face up to the fact that they're caught up in the mayhem:[Atlantic Edition]
Rod Nordland. Newsweek. (International ed.).New York: Nov 24, 2003. pg. 30

<http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2003/12/05/ntesco05.xm
l&sSheet=/news/2003/12/05/ixhome.html>http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.j
html?xml=/news/2003/12/05/ntesco05.xml&sSheet=/news/2003/12/05/ixhome.html
"The MPs suggested that loyalty cards could be used to identify
customers who bought excessive amounts of foods high in fat, sugar and
salt, and asked whether supermarkets could use this information to
promote healthier alternatives to these customers."

<http://media.guardian.co.uk/advertising/story/0,7492,1099981,00.html>http:/
/media.guardian.co.uk/advertising/story/0,7492,1099981,00.html
"David Hinchliffe, the MP who was instrumental in securing a ban on
tobacco advertising earlier this year, suggested supermarkets' loyalty
cards could be used to monitor eating habits."

Bush signs new measure to fight ID theft: President Bush signs new
measure to maintain fair access to credit, fight identity theft
The Associated Press
December 4, 2003
http://abcnews.go.com/wire/Politics/ap20031204_1731.html
WASHINGTONb Americans will be able to get free copies of their credit
histories every year and will gain new weapons against identity thieves
under legislation President Bush signed into law on Thursday.

FC
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