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["Melody O." <melody AT crecon.com>]

At 05:06 AM 3/7/05 -0700, you wrote:
>Those who want truth about the issue will read this article, to be found at:
>http://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/07/international/middleeast/07armor.html?hp
>Many Missteps Tied to Delay in Armor for Troops in Iraq
>
>By MICHAEL MOSS
>
>Published: March 7, 2005
>
>The war in Iraq was hardly a month old in April 2003 when an Army general 
>in charge of equipping soldiers with protective gear threw the brakes on 
>buying bulletproof vests.
>
>The general, Richard A. Cody, who led a Pentagon group called the Army 
>Strategic Planning Board, had been told by supply chiefs that the combat 
>troops already had all the armor they needed, according to Army officials 
>and records from the board's meetings. Some 50,000 other American soldiers, 
>who were not on the front lines of battle, could do without.

Ever wonder if those in control are just idiots or plain trying to make
America the losers?

Best wishes,
Melody