Originally posted by DanNx:
300 million for body armour but about 60 billion + for other military gear & supplies. The 40,000 additional peices of armour were for troups originally not felt likely to be in combat (supply, etc)...combat troups were well equiped. This was the US military ADAPTING to changing battlefield conditions. I submit Kerry was an impediment to this adaptation and again....was voting on the final bill..his earlier efforts to link tax hikes to funding had failed.



that doesn't deny the fact that bush admin made very serious mistakes back then. they just didn't properly plan or execute their ideas for post mission accomplished iraq. the whole situation has been very badly managed until recently. these are the type of mistakes people get fired for in the real world!!! even though they're trying to clean up the mes now i can't trust they won't repeat the same mistakes. and mainly cause they refuse to accept and admit they've made any!!!!

even when confronted with the evidence today that iraq wasn't an imminent threat it's laughable that cheney can stick to the same story. but they love to throw in the little twist....'the world is better without saddam hussein in power'. maybe, but the world would be a better place without n.korea and iran developing nuke programs! the way the bush admin gained support for the war in iraq by misleading, misdirecteding, and misinterpreting 'evidence' in order to gain support has left a very bad taste for a lot of people.

i for one believe the bush admin knew iraq didn't have a wmd arsenal, wasn't anywhere near close to developing a nuke, didn't have strong ties to al qaeda, and knew iraq wasn't the greatest threat to our homeland security and global terrorism in the immediate term. even though they say iraq was a growing threat, a growing threat is far from immediate and imminent threat!! they didn't go to war saying iraq was a growing threat, they said it was an immediate and imminent threat that needed to be dealt with now. so to me it looks like the bush admin mislead the nation on purpose or negligently ignored the clues they could be wrong in their assumptions. how many more fcukups do they get before it's fubar?!

it was interesting one thing cheney said in the debate that solidified it for me he still has no idea what's going on...he said "we took the war to them over there so we didn't have to fight it over here". and i thought at what point were we at war with iraqi people? iraq wasn't the front for the war on terrorism when we attacked!

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