Sunday, January 08, 2006
Iraq: loving the troops to death.
From "Pentagon Study Links Fatalities to Body Armor" in yesterday's New York Times:
"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. Such armor has been available since 2003, but until recently the Pentagon has largely declined to supply it to troops despite calls from the field for additional protection, according to military officials."(click here for the full article)
If only this staggering ineptitude was an isolated incicdent and soldiers weren't dying because of the Bush adminstration's incompetence in conducting this completely unecessary war. Unfortunately this is just the latest in a very long list of missteps in this war:
- The body armor the military does have doesn't even work!
- The GOP: loving our troops to death.
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- Abu Ghraib torture is still ongoing. No surprise there based on Rumsfeld's recent comments.
- And there was stupid me thinking they had shut down the fcckery there and outsourced it.
- Or at least passed the baton to the Iraqi's.
- So it's no wonder the "U.S. Military Covertly Pays to Run Stories in Iraqi Press - Troops write articles presented as news reports." But the real fccked up thing is that, even after getting busted, they are still defending their actions. (click here to read more)
- Meanwhile, they finally found those WMD's in Iraq after all - the US military has been using them on the Iraqis. (and in case you're wondering, the question in that CS Monitor link and the spin by Pentagon that those charges against them were "disinformation" has already been settled.)
- Three years later, there's "2000 dead and not a school opening in sight...." Nice job, W. How many Iraqi hearts and minds have we won so far - 30,000 or so?
