Is $140M too much to ask?

Started by tomrod, 03/28/2004 03:13AM
Posted 03/28/2004 03:13AM Opening Post
Our troops are still being deployed without body armor. Families are spending their own money to get $1400 worth of body armor for their fathers, sons, mothers, daughters, husbands, and wives.

You would think that Rumsfield, the military genius, could talk Bu$h, the war president, into a $500.140 deficit to provide $140 million ($1400 x 100,000 troops) to insure that our troops have body armor.

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=540&e=6&u=/ap/iraq_body_armor

There are only 10 kinds of people who understand binary - those that do and those that don't
Posted 03/28/2004 04:19AM #1
That shows alot of class doesn't it? Our military has quite a reputation of demanding loyalty and sacrifice from the troops and in return they'll do things like not give them body armor or, as importantly, armor for the light trucks.

Remember these are the same folks who marched troops over ground zero in New Mexico, rained Agent Orange on our boys in Vietnam then denied any problems with it, denied the existence of Gulf War Syndrome, just to name a few.

We'll pour BILLIONS into Iraq's infrastructure, offer Turkey $30 billion to stage our troops, piss away a huge surplus to ease the burden of the wealthiest Americans, but we won't sufficiently fund our own homeland security or even give our loyal troops the materials they need for their own safety.

This makes me sick.