Remind me - wasn't Rumsfeld's goal to make the Armed Forces

hedgehog

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Fri Jan-12-07 07:45 PM
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Remind me - wasn't Rumsfeld's goal to make the Armed Forces

more efficient and modern so we wouldn't need as many troops?

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pwb

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Fri Jan-12-07 07:48 PM
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1. all the money went for gizmos and gadgets instead.

all high tech bullshit that just blows up the dirt.

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Roland99

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Fri Jan-12-07 07:48 PM
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2. Ayup. Sit back and watch PBS Frontline's "Rumsfeld's War" >>>>>>

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/pentagon/

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MadMaddie

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Fri Jan-12-07 09:10 PM
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3. Don't forget a lot of the money went to Raetheon to build defense

for military vehicles and it will take them until 2009-2010, even when Israel already uses a product that has been battle tested...

War profiteering, I hope Congress passes a law...about war profiteering....

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