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To: lurqer who wrote (29414)	10/2/2003 5:22:18 PM
From: lurqer	Respond to of 89467

For the pentagon, it seems, the MIC (Military Industrial Complex) comes first, and the troops come last. We all know about cutting Vet bennies, and the paucity of Kevlar vests. Now, we learn that the anti-fratricide deployment was too little, too late. The U.S. military fell painfully short of its goal of equipping its forces with ways to minimize "friendly" fire attacks during the war in Iraq, according to a top general who compiled a "lessons learned" report for the Pentagon. Too little was done to minimize the incidents of inadvertent attacks by U.S. forces on U.S. or coalition troops, according to Admiral Edmund Giambastiani Jr., chief of Joint Forces Command, which compiled the war review. Giambastiani testified on the report for the first time Thursday before the House Armed Services Committee. In advance of the hearing he discussed it in an Associated Press interview. Fratricide is a problem in every war, but after the 1991 Persian Gulf War the Pentagon vowed to invest heavily in new technologies that would reduce inadvertent killings to an absolute minimum. Giambastiani said in the AP interview that the Pentagon fell painfully short of achieving that goal. "We've just got to do better," he said. "We've spent a lot of time and money on it since (1991), but frankly we just weren't there. We didn't have it deployed with all our forces. We were doing it at the last minute. It wasn't a good story." from canada.com JMO lurqer