Posted on 01/10/2006 7:30:11 AM PST by Kaslin
She Has Called for an Investigation Into Why Soldiers Are Not Fully Protected
Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton called the Bush administration "incompetent" when it came to protecting the troops in combat and called the lack of adequate body armor for soldiers and Marines "unforgivable."
So far in Iraq, more than 2,100 American troops have been killed. Critics like Clinton, D-N.Y., say that many of these deaths are the result of inadequate body armor. A secret Pentagon study of 93 Marines who were killed in Iraq found that 74 died after they were hit by a bullet or shrapnel in the torso or shoulders areas unprotected by the armor most are issued.
"We perhaps could have avoided so many of these fatalities with the right body armor," said Clinton, who recently wrote letters to Sen. John Warner, R-Va., chairman of the Armed Services Committee; Sen. Carl Levin, D-Mich., the ranking Democrat on the Armed Services Committee; and Francis J. Harvey, secretary of the Army, calling for an investigation into why troops were not being protected.
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HILLARY'S ARMOR: A decades-old story...
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Fox just had a blurb about new body armor for the troops.
TWO days ago hitlery did the above posted rant on "poor" body armor.
How long will it be before hitlery takes credit for forcing the military to improve the armor?
What she did not say is that they can thank her and her husband for it.
The Democrats will say whatever they think will get them elected. If the electorate falls for their bullshit, they deserve everything that the Democrats will do to them.
Hey, you just made me throw up a little.
Hey, you just made me throw up a little.
During WWI, shortly after the introduction of helmets for UK troops in the trenches, the hospitals saw a huge spike in head injuries.
The first inclination was that the helmets were causing injuries, then cooler heads figured out that otherwise the injured would have been dead.
The Humvee Jeep Has Seen It's Fair Share of Action in Somalia (During the Clinton era) and Iraq. Where was the armor then?
Hehehe
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