Subject: Re: [Homestead] Body armor truth now coming out
Date: Mon, 07 Mar 2005 17:37:28 -0700
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?