Army Orders Soldiers to Shed Dragon Skin or Lose SGLI Death Benefits
Pardon my language, but can you fucking believe this shit? THIS is how our government is "supporting the troops." First, they send them into an illegal, unnecessary, senseless war, risking their lives because George and Dick have a hard-on for war. They send them into combat in Humvees (which were neither designed or intended to be combat vehicles), where they are sitting ducks for enemy snipers and IED's. They send them into combat in these non-combat vehicles without body armor. They force the soldiers to scrounge around junkyards for scrap metal to bolt onto the Humvees as makeshift armor. Finally, after years of public outcry, they give them shitty body armor that doesn't provide adequate protection. And then, when the soldiers (and their parents, friends, communities, etc) go out and on their own initiative shell out 6 grand for decent protection, the Army tells them they can't use it.
Is this a big FUCK YOU to the troops or what?
"Last week DefenseWatch released a secret Marine Corps report that determined that 80% of the 401 Marines killed in Iraq between April 2004 and June 2005 might have been saved if the Interceptor OTV body armor they were wearing was more effective. The Army has declined to comment on the report because doing so could aid the enemy, an Army spokesman has repeatedly said."
AID THE ENEMY???
AID THE FUCKING ENEMY???? What better way to aid the enemy than by making our soldiers more vulnerable to attack, by ordering them not to wear good armor? Holy shit this pisses me off.
This is why we need to bring our boys home. This is why Murtha is so pissed off about the way this war is being handled. This is a crime being committed against every one of the troops deployed in Iraq, their families, and every American who gives a shit or who pays taxes (that leaves the Bush Administration and most of the billionaires out).
How could this happen, you wonder? Maybe it had something to do with the insane amounts of money being pulled down by David H. Brooks, the CEO of DHB Industries, the company that makes the shitty body armor for the marines (Kos has a thing or two to say about him
HERE). This dude threw a 10 million dollar bat mitzvah for his daughter while our soldiers were dying because his company is making body armor on the cheap. You KNOW he's a republican, and a heavy donor to republican causes. This sonofabitch is wiping the blood off his hands with silk napkins, drinking Dom Perignon while his customers - our soldiers - die.
You want to know who's aiding the enemy? Everyone who voted for Bush. Everyone who voted republican. Anyone who is NOT fighting to end this war, and who wasn't fighting even before it began. The enemy is in the White House. Anyone still supporting and defending the criminals and monsters residing there - those are the people who are aiding the enemy.
Wally
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