Pentagon damage control on now.. Live CNN (Now on CSPAN1)

[tridim]

Basically saying.. But we have lots of armored Humvees.

[deadparrot]

1. We have them....but we're not giving 'em out! eom

[xultar]

2. We're gonna send them over after using them to drive * to the inauguration

:evilgrin:

[dkofos]

3. Forgot to say they are in USA, NATO countries, Japan, South Korea

ect, ect, ect.....

LIARS
FUCKING LIARS

[insane_cratic_gal]

4. Let them try and justifiy

allowing for only 4 million on armor kits.. that don't protect the under belly of vechile.

but spending 2 million for a Bush yacht?

[soup]

5. The Damage Done

It's easy to send soldiers off to war. It's a lot harder to face them when they come home.

Photo Essay

Tristan Wyatt
AGE 21; FRANKTOWN, COLORADO
Machine gunner in the Army's 3rd Armored Cavalry Regiment. Lost his leg on August 25, 2003, during a firefight near Fallujah.

I was in the back of an armored personnel carrier. We got hit by a rocket-propelled grenade. It was a shitty day, to say the least. I just kept shooting. I thought I was dead anyway.

I've had to relearn everything from standing up to walking. I'd been snowboarding for close to eight years before I got hit, and I'm just hoping to be able to do it again.

I want to go back to the military. I want my old job back. I was infantry. We blew things up. I felt like my heart was in the right place over there.

Photos and Interviews by Nina Berman/Redux
http://www.motherjones.com/news/feature/2004/03/03_100.html

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Purple Hearts: Back from Iraq

An interview with photographer Nina Berman, whose new book vividly shows that many U.S. soldiers bring the war back home.

Nina Berman
Interviewed By Tucker Foehl

October 28, 2004

They are the images the government doesn’t want you to see -- of soldiers returning from “Operation Iraqi Freedom,” wounded for life, physically and emotionally. Many are in their late teens and early twenties. They are double-amputees, paraplegics, burn victims, depressives.

Every day we hear of soldiers killed, and more injured, in Iraq. Yet we see very little of them. Last spring, Nina Berman, a New York-based photographer, decided to take action. She scoured the country, from Prichard, Alabama to Santa Ana, California, interviewing and photographing soldiers, and documented the human costs of war. In her recently published book, Purple Hearts: Back from Iraq, Berman collects her portraits and interviews with soldiers to capture the ongoing war in Iraq in a simple, blunt -- and shocking -- language.
http://www.motherjones.com/news/qa/2004/10/10_404.html

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[Supersedeas]

6. hell, they can't face them on the way there...much less coming back...if

they come back...alive.