press interview Gen. Turner was asked if the troops had all the Body

[sam sarrha]

armour they needed..

he looked like his mother just caught him jerking off... and mumbled that they did

is there any word from the trenches about the body and HUMV armor in Iraq..??

thanks

[babylonsister]

1. No, there wasn't nearly enough armor. Couldn't search DU, but

I googled it for you. There were lots of articles here earlier this week.

http://www.journalnow.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=WSJ%2FMGArticle%2FWSJ_ColumnistArticle&c=MGArticle&cid=1128769350367&path=!opinion&s=1037645509163

Tuesday, January 17, 2006
Body Armor

Winston-Salem Journal

The U.S. Army will soon send additional body armor to protect American soldiers in Iraq. It's about time.

The Army announced its decision Wednesday, about three years too late. American forces should have never invaded Iraq without the body armor they need, and with which this country can certainly afford to provide them.

In the future, when the history of this period is written and when Americans are removed from the internal partisanship that so colors current views of the war, the body-armor issue may well be the biggest stain on the Bush administration's record.

There is no reasonable justification for the world's richest nation to skimp on armor that can protect the lives of its sons and daughters. If Congress were more interested in doing its job, rather than raising campaign funds and fighting partisan battles, it would be tearing the administration's defense budget apart and reworking it with adequate armor as the top priority.

The armor issue is just one more indictment of Bush administration performance in this war. The administration led the nation to war with bogus claims of Iraqi weapons of mass destruction and Iraqi ties to Osama bin Laden. Then it failed to adequately plan for the establishment of peace after major combat operations ended, leaving the Army and Marine Corps woefully understaffed. Amid all these mistakes was the negligence of inadequately protecting the men and women the administration sent into harm's way.

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[SammyWinstonJack]

2. How can he lie like that?

He knows he's lying, why doesn't that bother him? Why doesn't he support his Troops? Why doesn't he, as a General , care about the ground Troops? He should be ashamed of himself!

[recovering democrat]

3. Specifics

Turner is answering for the 101st Airborne which he commands. They probably, very likely, do have the body armor. He replies for soldiers "under his command". That does NOT answer for the entire military force in Iraq though.