From Google cache of Dear Kitty ModBlog.
Date: 1/7/06 at 12:26PM
AFP reports:
Most Marines killed in Iraq could have been saved by body armorSee also here.07/01/2006
WASHINGTON - A secret Pentagon study found that as many as 80 percent of Marines killed in Iraq from wounds to the upper body could have survived if they had had extra body armor, The New York Times reports.
“Such armor has been available since 2003, but until recently the Pentagon has largely declined to supply it to troops despite calls from the field for additional protection,” the Times reported citing unnamed military officials.
“For the first time, the study by the military’s medical examiner shows the cost in lives from inadequate armor, even as the Pentagon continues to publicly defend its protection of the troops,” the report said.
And here.
And here.
And here.
And here.
Rumsfeld and Saddam Hussein: here.
Also no body armor for British soldiers in Iraq: here.
Posted by: “frankofbos” FrankOfBos@yahoo.com frankofbos
Sat Aug 16, 2008 1:21 am (PDT)
Bush Says “Support the Troops” While He Sends them to War Unarmored -
Bush History, 8/16
President Bush says on this date, “There is nothing complicated about
supporting our troops”. Yet his administration sends them to war
without body armor or armored vehicles. One father of a dead soldier
said, “he would have been better off in a Toyota”. Also on this date
the Army reports the highest soldier suicide rate in 26 years.
Click here for more, and a Bushism …
http://poorgeorgesalmanac.com/?p=370
Today’s categories: Failing the Troops, Hypocrisy, Iraq
Comment by Administrator — August 16, 2008 @ 6:47 pm