At 09:46 AM 1/25/2006 -0800, you wrote:
>Our government does NOT buy top quality. they buy based on the good ol' boy
>system and they are not buying top of the line. AND, they knew with the
>first foray into Iraq that they were deficient in that area and sat on their
>thumbs spinning instead of taking care of the troops!
Too bad there isn't someone in the Bush administration who would benefit
from the buying and selling of armor to the troops! As it appears from the
outside, that is how things are done now.