Religions > Bible > Troops Pay Price for Administration’s Incompetence
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"james g. keegan jr." |
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13 Dec 2004 04:57:28 PM |
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Troops Pay Price for Administration’s Incompetence |
Troops Pay Price for Administration’s Incompetence
December 13, 2004
Eighteen months after President Bush announced the end of major combat
operations in Iraq, American troops continue to suffer from serious
flaws in the Bush administration’s post-war planning. Sen. Chuck Hagel
offered blistering criticism of Defense Secretary Rumsfled yesterday,
saying that he’s done “irresponsible” things, including going into Iraq
without sufficient troops. “He's dismissed his general officers. He's
dismissed all outside influence. He's dismissed outside counsel and
advice. And he's dismissed a lot of inside counsel and advice from men
and women who have been in military uniforms for 25 and 30 years." As a
result, our troops must pay the price.
* National Guard and reserve forces lack adequate training and
equipment to do heavy fighting. The administration has sent Guard and
reserve troops into battle without proper training and equipment. A new
report by USA Today shows: “In a reversal of trends from past wars,
part-time soldiers in the Army National Guard are about one-third more
likely to be killed in Iraq than full-time active-duty soldiers serving
there.” The statistics bear this out: the active army has seen one death
for every 402 soldiers deployed. The Army Guard, however, sees “one
fatality for every 264 soldiers who have served, or about a 35 percent
higher death rate.”
* The administration failed to provide troops with adequate
protection. Anticipating an easy fight, the administration failed to
gather the necessary armor and equipment to fight a protracted
insurgency. For example, the Pentagon said it would need 235 armored
Humvees in Iraq. But in reality, it needs 8,105, or thirty-five times as
many as they predicted before the war, according to Time magazine.
* The administration cares little about the circumstances of our
troops on the ground. As Defense Secretary Rumsfeld told soldiers last
week, the Bush administration’s message to the troops: “Suck it up.” The
troops are taking it upon themselves to push back. In October, members
of the 343rd Quartermaster Company were “disciplined and demoted” for
refusing to carry out a highly risky mission with their inadequately
protected vehicles. The unit which eventually did carry out the mission
was, in fact, hit. One soldier in the unit that carried out the mission,
Sgt. Scott Montgomery, was wounded by shrapnel in the attack. “Had we
not had armor on our vehicle,” he said, “my entire crew would have been
killed.”
http://www.americanprogressaction.org/site/pp.asp?c=klLWJcP7H&b=269170
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