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U.S. soldiers tell KHOU in Houston that they often weren’t given enough water to drink while patrolling areas in Iraq where temperatures reached 130 degrees. At times, they resorted to stealing bottled water from civilian contractors to survive. The Multi-National Force in Iraq said, “Commanders at all levels do their utmost to provide the necessary resources required to sustain the force.”
Also, officials at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York knew about AIG’s planned bonus payouts five months before they prompted explosive public outrage in mid-March, reports the Washington Post. To deal with the expected fallout, New York Fed officials conferred with “outside lawyers, auditors and public relations firms” — but didn’t alert the Obama administration until the end of February.
