Comments on: Red Tape Blamed For Iraq Equipment Void

18,000 Life-Saving Heavy-Duty Armored Vehicles Needed — But Will It Take Two Years To Get Them?

[stevenga777]

I HAVE TAKEN PART OF THIS FROM ANOTHER POSTING BUT IT MAKES SENSE!

Marines in the field asked for 1,200 MRAPs in February 2005 but so far, they've received less than 100. The REPUBLICANS controlled congress in 2005. Why didn't the REPUBLICANS authorize the MRAPs to be built? The current DEMOCRATIC congress acted faster on this emergency supplemental than the previous congresses did.

Why aren't we on a war footing? How long would it have taken to build 18,000 of anything that size in WWII? The US built more than 71,000 tanks and large self-propelled guns, 2.3 million trucks and 324,000 military aircraft to win that war in less than 4 yrs. It's going to take longer than WWII lasted to get 18,000 MRAP's built?

With all the money already wasted, why not get the Big 3 to do whatever they have to do to get them built and save American lives? Wouldn't that kind of production order give them a chance to revamp their civilian business model in order to save themselves after any urgent military production? Didn't they contribute as much as Halliburton?

[rharrin1]

The fact that Bush/Cheney/Rove thought for one minute that they could enforce democracy on these people proves they didn't do their homework. This administration has been exposed as liars on so many issues that I am amazed we continue to let them get away with it. Two of the biggest lies were that our troops would be greeted as liberators and that the oil money would pay for the whole military action.


Posted by barbaraf4 at 05:46 AM : May 26, 2007

What about the lies that we do not know YET? I am sure more to follow.

[waynabq]

Everyone should stop refering to the Iraq debacle as the "Iraq War" because there is no "War". The war was won militarily 4 years ago with the over-throw of Saddam and the disbanding of the Iraqi army. Call it what it is, the "IRAQ OCCUPATION".

I'm sick of the media and the band of monkeys in the White House calling this a "War". Its a bloody freaking cluster that the Chimp is perpetuating by creating more fear and hysteria. The only people buying it are the dimmest 28 percent of the U.S. population.

[grumpas]

One excuse is as good as the next one!

[starleo146]

Does any one know where these wrat are being made please do not tell me China. I do think getting these car companies in the U.S. to help is a good idea for the troops and the car companies there is really no excuse steel is high what about Japan they have steel. I am not up as you can tell on the steel question but we cannot just accept steel is high why they are not being built. This is just one more reason that I see this Pres. who uses these troops at all costs just for him. How much has Haliburton charged this country c'mon get what the troops need no excuses, stop using them as pawns on a chess board.

[starleo146]

Tomflint69 You have a right to your opinion but honestly how you can think Pres. Bush is here to solve our problems is just not at all what I think. Yes he was elected to take care of this country but he has failed in that process miserably. I do not know how one administration can make such a mess all by themselves and you cannot blame the democrats because the congress and senate were all republicans and they voted for everything this pres. asked for till 5 months ago and this Iraq thing will get worse please except blame where blame lies with your President and vice pres. and Donald Rumsfeld the republican congress and senate. Maybe that is why rep. Boehner was crying he just realized it.

[cfin5]

7takoz......It will be 72 "virginians"......big difference loser.

[hungry1968]

Red Tape = Haliburton can't cash all of the checks fast enough.

[barbaraf4]

"If the soldiers treated the Iraqi people with a little more respect and dignity, they wouldn't have to worry so much about the Iraqi people blowing them up."
Posted by bvckvs at 12:31 AM : May 26, 2007

Somehow, I do not think it is quite that easy. The Iraqi society is very complex. There are social and religious nuances we cannot begin to understand. There are citizens who might be your friend and supporter today, who become threatened and beaten into submission by tribal leaders (or their henchmen) and are willing to behead you tomorrow.

The fact that Bush/Cheney/Rove thought for one minute that they could enforce democracy on these people proves they didn't do their homework. This administration has been exposed as liars on so many issues that I am amazed we continue to let them get away with it. Two of the biggest lies were that our troops would be greeted as liberators and that the oil money would pay for the whole military action.

[juwboy]

As neoconRcrazy, Infidel_US or JackShaft4 probably wrote in a Comment that must have been deleted by CBS:

"If it wasn't for those hook-nosed, Zionist parasites lining their pockets at the expense of real Americans, our troops would have received all the equipment they needed long ago."

Now I'll wait for all those inbreeds, idiots, imbeciles, half-wits, simpletons, morons and cretins who contribute to this board to treat this posting as a serious Comment and completely ignore the irony.