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To: combjelly who wrote (331405)	4/2/2007 4:47:39 PM
From: Tenchusatsu	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1572956

CJ, > But the fact of the matter is we are 4 years out and we still have some troops with insufficient equipment. I suppose we shouldn't wage any war until we outfit all of our troops with bionic exoskeletons that protect against all forms of danger from small arms to ballistic missiles. Hopefully you get my point. Rumsfeld said it best, "You go to war with the army you have." > Again, when WWII started, we had a very poorly equipped military because of decades of budget cuts. Yet, 4 years later, we had so much equipment that it is still being sold on the surplus market today. WWII also saw the deaths of half a million Americans. The entire nation was at war. "So much to do in so little time." Hence the necessity of transitioning the entire industrial complex toward supporting the war effort. It's a lot different these days. We're at war, but the sacrifices demanded out of American society are a lot less than in WWII. A lot less than even Vietnam. We're still buying SUVs and slurping up gas as if it meant nothing. Tenchusatsu