WASHINGTON (AP) - Defense Secretary Robert Gates plans to ask Congress Tuesday for permission to shift as much as $1.3 billion from other military programs to speed up the purchase of bomb-resistant vehicles for troops in Iraq.They 'support' the troops? Bullshit! Military commanders in Iraq have been begging for more MRAP's for 3 1/2 years and they have been ignored by the Bush administration. And that's been at the cost of over 700 Americans.
According to military officials, the Army would like to reallocate about $800 million, and the Marines want roughly $500 million, to buy the Mine Resistant, Ambush Protected (MRAP) vehicles that have been saving lives in roadside bomb attacks.
The MRAP has been around since the 1970's. The military has wanted them, and they have desperately needed them, but we are just now going to order sufficient amounts of them for our troops.
This administration epitomizes incompetence and heads should roll - And we need to start at the top!
Impeach them bastards!
