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Tim4319 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-08-04 09:19 AM
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This administration can care less about the troops!
Sorry if this is a dupe! But when I read this I was so pissed off, I just started type, cutting and pasting. I am totally convinced they do not care about the troops.

This soldier had to ask the question twice. Rummy acted like he didn't hear him.

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"We do not have proper armored vehicles to carry with us north," Wilson said after asking again.

Rumsfeld replied that, "You go to war with the Army you have," not the one you might want, and that any rate the Army was pushing manufacturers of vehicle armor to produce it as fast as humanly possible.

And, the defense chief added, armor is not always a savior in the kind of combat U.S. troops face in Iraq, where the insurgents' weapon of choice is the roadside bomb, or improvised explosive device.

"You can have all the armor in the world on a tank and it can (still) be blown up," Rumsfeld said.


http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/meast/12/08/rumsfeld.troops.ap/index.html
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sniffa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-08-04 09:25 AM
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1. that soLdier hates america
how dare he! how dare he!
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Ian David Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-08-04 09:37 AM
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2. Print the story on postcards and mail them to people in red states
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Tim4319 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-08-04 09:56 AM
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4. Yeah, he wouldn't end up on FAUX being interview by Ollie North!
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gatorboy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-08-04 09:39 AM
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3. Here's something similar I found
I can't tell you have much I've argued with conservatives about this and they always say the same thing, that the undersupplies soldier is a liberal media myth. Well here's a link to soldiers begging for supplies they can't get from the military.

http://www.adoptasniper.org/items.html
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Ian David Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-08-04 12:10 PM
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5. Watch the documentary about Arkansas National Guard
It's frequently on The DiscoveryTimes channel
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