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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: sylvester80 who wrote (487423)	11/5/2003 1:32:43 PM
From: Arthur Radley	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

Isn't it amazing that Codpiece didn't utter one word on Sunday when this copter went down....did he know that since he doesn't really care about our soldiers dying and his vacation is more important it is obvious that he did know this... By Sue Pleming WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Many U.S. helicopters in Iraq (news - web sites) lack routine anti-missile equipment that might have thwarted last weekend's attack on a Chinook helicopter that killed 15 U.S. troops, a Democratic senator said on Wednesday. Complaining of a lack of measures to protect U.S. troops under fire in Iraq, Illinois Sen. Dick Durbin said "reliable military sources" told him they had been battling for six months to get anti-missile equipment and that helicopter crews even had to scavenge items from other helicopters. "It's been a struggle for them to get the most basic equipment they need to protect themselves," Durbin told ABC's "Good Morning America" program. An American military CH-47 Chinook helicopter, whose pilot came from Durbin's state, was downed by a shoulder-guided missile on Sunday, killing 15 U.S. troops and injuring 27, two of whom were aboard another helicopter that landed nearby in a rescue effort. "What we've learned from communications is that for months they've been flying without the protective equipment, and the crews and pilots have tried to secure the equipment from every source imaginable. That's unacceptable to me, to put them in harm's way without the very best protective equipment," Durbin said