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Just ask any 'Nam vets about the M16s.
They're still using them....

>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
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