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"badgolferman" <REMOVETHISbadgolferman@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> [email]annecoultersadamsapple@yahoo.com[/email], 2/19/2007,11:59:52 AM, wrote:
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>> Read about the new helmut liners and consider donating a few bucks.
>>
>> [url]http://operation-helmet.org/[/url][/color]
>
> This is an excellent example of supporting our troops, not the vitriol
> that is spewed by several participants in this newsgroup. Hopefully
> these items are not incompatible with military standards and don't put
> soldiers in conflict with their dress regulations.[/color]

Yeah. It would be a real tragedy if a soldier didn't dress pretty in favor
of saving his head.

The fact of the matter is, the Army lacks the armor necessary for best
survival in Iraq. These problems have been known since the week of the
invasion, public knowledge within a few weeks of the invasion and, somehow,
in spite of a crapload of money spent on things for which we have no
need(*), there's never enough money to properly equip troops already under
fire. And it's not just armor, every week there's a story in the paper
about equipment the troops do not have. One friend, in Iraq, said that
toilet paper was in chronic short supply. She mentioned a few other things,
which escape me at the moment.

No toilet paper... Maybe that's a clue to where the missing billions in cash
went...

(*) like an ABM defense. Yes, North Korea *could* hit the Aleutians with a
nearly-ICBM. So what? We'd never miss any of those islands and it would be
like painting a big "NUKE ME" sign across Pyongyang.



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