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Food, medicine and supplies were dropped into Afghanistan, mainly in areas where thousands of refugees have fled in anticipation of the attacks. C-17s flying at about 30,000 feet tossed out 37,500 daily rations across the country. Each ration was a thick yellow plastic packet reading, in English, humanitarian daily rations, food gift from the people of the United States of America. Each contained beans, potatoes, biscuits, shortbread, strawberry jam, peanut butter, a fruit bar and pastries, along with yellow book matches stamped USA on the cover. Bush, in his televised speech from the White House Treaty Room, was plain-spoken about the purpose of the tactic. The United States of America is friend to the Afghan people, and at the same time is a friend to more than a billion Muslims worldwide, he said.