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To: Mr. Palau who wrote (17168)	2/1/2007 8:25:36 PM
From: TimF	Respond to of 71588

Procurement and logistics will never be perfect. You can never have everything you want and rarely have everything that can be justified as a need. The US army, in Iraq and elsewhere does better than the vast majority of armies throughout history in this regard but it will never be perfect. If we tried to make it as close as we could to perfect, huge stockpiles of things just because they might be needed, huge new resources spent on supplying those things, a gold plated logistics system, than the complaint would be that we spend to much and waste a lot of money. And even then there would be shortages, because you can't know exactly what you will need or what the enemy will do in advance, and also because even the most gold plated logistics system has limited resources. The world is a world of scarcity, not a world where everything we might want or need can be provided, if only liberals are in charge of the government.