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Politics : Impeach George W. Bush

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To: TimF who wrote (80695)5/26/2007 6:29:02 PM
From: sea_biscuit  Read Replies (2) of 93284
 
FACT — THE BUSH ADMINISTRATION’S FAILURE TO PROVIDE BODY ARMOR HAS COST LIVES: The New York Times reported that a “secret Pentagon study has found that as many as 80 percent of the marines who have been killed in Iraq from wounds to the upper body could have survived if they had had extra body armor.”

Body armor “has been available since 2003, but until recently the Pentagon has largely declined to supply it to troops despite calls from the field.”
Additionally, the Pentagon has refused to reimburse troops who purchased their own armor. [New York Times, 1/7/06; AP, 9/30/05]
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