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To: Neocon who wrote (153871)	12/13/2004 11:40:16 AM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) of 281500

Yes but the change was not executed to perfection, nor was the need anticipated so it becomes one more convenient club for the administrations opponents to use. It has the advantage of being a real issue, so people who argue against the exaggeration of the issue can be painted as not caring about it at all and thus they can in turn be attacked as not caring about our soldiers lives. The issue may be exaggerated and the problem may be mostly dealt with but that doesn't change the perceived opportunity of those who don't like Bush. They see it as a perfect change to attack Bush and Rumsfeld, while at the same time sticking up for the soldiers. Now that it is mostly dealt with (15k out of 19k are armored) the complaint is moving on to the fact that a lot of the trucks are not armored. Of course even an armored truck is very vulnerable in a war zone, so this issue is exaggerated to but if you point this out you are painted as supporting our troops getting screwed by the administration and killed by the Iraqi insurgents/terrorists. The distinction between saying "we are and we would be providing good armor for our soldiers but you have been exaggerating the problem" and saying "who cares about the armor, Bush is perfect", is somehow to subtle for some people to pick up on... Tim

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