Below is the email of a friend's friend. these particular folks were readying to come home when they were contracted out to Halliburton to guard convoys. 1. can anyone explain why the military is guarding halliburton convoys? and 2. why does our military insist on lying to their people? telling them they're coming home and then changing their mind...grrr.

"My company, the 372nd Military Police Company has been extended for possibly over 120 days past our current year deployment, suffice to say, we are all ready to come home. To give you our status, we are at 48% our usual number of soldiers, we have no officers, our mission from Bosnia doesn’t count towards our time. So while I was activated during 7 months of post 9/11, Military saying that doesn't count. What I'm asking of everyone is please, write anyone you can think of to push the issue of us coming home, congress, governors, senators, when we go to this new mission, I'm very afraid people will die, it's that dangerous. Thanks for your help everyone."

SGT Jeremy McGuire

372nd Military Police Company