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babylonsister (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-16-07 06:16 AM Original message |
Iraq troops got Mine Resistant Armored Protection vehicles (MRAPs), Americans waited |
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rodeodance (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-16-07 06:25 AM Response to Original message |
1. I imagine they will say that the contracts could only go to US firms?-no |
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formercia (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-16-07 06:26 AM Response to Original message |
2. Can't have the Iraqis killed by their own IEDs |
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Solly Mack (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-16-07 06:30 AM Response to Original message |
3. that's some killer support for the troops..seriously....it's killer |
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babylonsister (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-16-07 06:37 AM Response to Reply #3 |
5. I'm just fuming at this; all the excuses we've heard about the lack |
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Solly Mack (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-16-07 07:10 AM Response to Reply #5 |
6. I read the article. Money is blind to bloodshed |
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Kagemusha (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-16-07 06:33 AM Response to Original message |
4. Okay, this explains why BAE's buying Armor Holdings. |
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formercia (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-16-07 11:25 AM Response to Reply #4 |
8. Armor holdings owns a good share of the companies in the US |
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babylonsister (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-16-07 08:43 AM Response to Original message |
7. . |
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EFerrari (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-16-07 11:26 AM Response to Original message |
9. This is insane. Doesn't anyone know how to supply our military |
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babylonsister (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-16-07 12:34 PM Response to Reply #9 |
10. It's deliberate and it's disgusting. nt |
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EFerrari (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-16-07 12:50 PM Response to Reply #10 |
11. What are you thinking when you say "deliberate"? n/t |
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babylonsister (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-16-07 01:01 PM Response to Reply #11 |
12. From Slate: |
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EFerrari (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-16-07 01:04 PM Response to Reply #12 |
13. Donald Rumsfeld is going straight to hell. Thank you. |
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Strelnikov_ (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-16-07 01:06 PM Response to Original message |
14. Problem is, MRAPS are vulnerable to EFP's |
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babylonsister (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-16-07 01:22 PM Response to Reply #14 |
15. The MRAPs are supposedly better than what they were originally |
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Ganja Ninja (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-16-07 01:25 PM Response to Original message |
16. Not surprising at all. |
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