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Cold Sandwiches for our troops thanks to Halliburton?

Mar 8, 2004 11:21AM PST
US Food Co Says Halliburton Owes $87 Million For Iraq Deal -NBC.
Including for Dubya's turkey dinner!
>> Morrell told NBC that he has already laid off employees in the U.S. and soon will have to feed sandwiches to troops, instead of hot meals, because his company is running low on money. <<

Let's see -- inadequate armor for troops and Hummers, a screw-up on the food service. Yeah, things are going great in Iraq, just as Geraldo says!

-- Dave K, Speakeasy Moderator
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(NT) Taking pleasure, huh Dave ?
Mar 8, 2004 12:53PM PST

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Read on................
Mar 8, 2004 1:09PM PST
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Rehash of situation, just for Dave K
Mar 8, 2004 4:00PM PST

As in just about every major combat situation this Nation has ever been engaged, situations not imagined, and therefor not planned for, have occured requiring 'innovations', including new or modified equipment. This has been the case in Iraq with Humvees and body armor.

The body armor previously available and used was ineffective against the AK47, and a newer armor with new technology was devised, but exceeded manufacturing capability. This has been a subject of heated debate within the Congress and the DOD for months. The stories of family purchasing vests and sending them to Iraq is true, and for the most part the vests were of the old kevlar variety and ineffective. It seems the problem of shortage of body armor has/is being corrected.

The situation with armored Humvees is similar. To simply weld steel plates to these vehicles, on the outside or on the floorboards/doors is dangerous if the steel is not properly fabricated and properly attached. Inferior steel can spaul and send shrapnel all over, or the steel plate can be blown off and become a missle. Sure, there have been reports of armored vehicles available in Bosnia, unused, but they have been sent to Iraq.

Here are a couple of links in this regard, just to bring this subject up to date:

http://www4.army.mil/ocpa/read.php?&story_id_key=5650

http://mutable.inknoise.com/Marines/2004/02/11/0004

It's easy to sit around and Monday morning quarterback and critize. But your boy certainly hasn't done his part to help the situation, quite the contrary.

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Did a Dave K. post just suddenly vanish?
Mar 8, 2004 6:28PM PST

Am I going nutz? I was in the process of replying to Dave K.'s "ugly American" response when my screen reloaded and it was gone from the thread. Or am I seeing things, Dave?

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Found it...
Mar 8, 2004 6:42PM PST

Found it. Some thing hapened and I squirted across the forum like a watermellon seed. And it didn't even cost me an "E" coupon (grin).