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Originally Posted by sck5
Chuckles
The Yea was to table the bill. And yes, the money was to come from reconstruction (where they havent yet spent the money anyway)
Dont you agree that the safety of our troops ought to come ahead of ANYTHING else?
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YES - including ahead of the politics - The Democratic (Senator DODD, Democratic senator from Conn) party put the rider in to take the money out of reconstruction to force the bill to be tabled. It's the DODD amendment that was tabled.
I'm sounding like Ragnar - are you really that dense you can't see and understand that?
The troops got the armor - it wasn't a funding issue it was that the armor had not been procured YEARS before hand. In short, there was no armor to be had.
Troops don't wear armor bought last week - they wear armor procured and bought, and trained in many years ago.
Or - DO YOU REALLY THINK THERE WAS A WAREHOUSE SOMEWHERE WITH 130,000 SETS OF ARMOR AND SOME GREASY DUDE WITH A CLIPBOARD WAITING FOR A CHECK?
Sorry for the all caps. Stupid offends me.