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How can Bush and the Pentagon talk about supporting the troops when they do things like this?
A lengthy investigation published Thursday reveals that the Pentagon gave an inexperienced 22-year-old a $300 million contract to provide ammunition to Afghanistan. The shady deal resulted in decades old, substandard munitions being delivered to US and Afghan troops fighting on the front lines of the war on terror ...Add this story to the incompetence reported in Imperial Life in the Emerald City and it is no wonder our foreign policy is in such disarray.
The company has provided ammunition that is more than 40 years old and in decomposing packaging, according to an examination of the munitions by The New York Times and interviews with American and Afghan officials. Much of the ammunition comes from the aging stockpiles of the old Communist bloc, including stockpiles that the State Department and NATO have determined to be unreliable and obsolete, and have spent millions of dollars to have destroyed. In purchasing munitions, the contractor has also worked with middlemen and a shell company on a federal list of entities suspected of illegal arms trafficking.
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Republicans havent been supporting the troops since the onset of the war...Bush really let me down, so now, for the first time in my life, Im voting Democrat.
It seems that McCain is going to be Bush Jr., I guess there was some hope that he would stick to his moderate view, but those hopes are gone now.
I will not vote for him.
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