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Politics : Just the Facts, Ma'am: A Compendium of Liberal Fiction

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To: Suma who wrote (22561)	12/10/2004 12:11:51 PM
From: jlallen	Read Replies (2) of 90947

Both the armor "issue" and the stop loss issues are non starters...intended solely to cast Bush in a bad light. Stop loss has been a policy of every major military engagement we have ever prosecuted.....such as the Bosnian conflcit, 91 Gulf War, Vietnam, Korea, etc.....The reasons for such policies are obvious.... The armor situation is that currently 78% of the HUMVEES in Iraq are armored...production of armored HUMVEES has increased from 15 to 500 per month.....the Pentagon has always been slow to respond to production requirements of this nature... Some good examples of prior situations which are similar are...lack of sufficient armor on Sherman Tanks in WWII, rectification of operational deficiencies with M-16s in Vietnam in that era, etc.... American soldiers have always adapted and overcome such problems before....(witness the ingenuity of the troops who added armor and hedgerow cutting attachments to tanks and other vehicles in the battle for Europe....) When the 82nd was deployed to SA in 1990......all they had was small arms and light antitank weapons.....not a good position if Saddam had actually invaded..... still the mission had to be done.....it took over a year to build up to a point where our offensive preparation and capability rendered the liberation of Kuwait feasible... Bottom line, is the armor situation is being addressed....not that Bush or Rumsfeld don't care.....the rest is just more pinhead nonsense.... J.

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