Senate Bill SHORTS gear for troops! Explain this to me.

[fooj]

:cry:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060420/ap_on_go_co/iraq_spending_add_ons&printer=1;_ylt=Asyb5_4cCgtBdOzMcgjh1SyMwfIE;_ylu=X3oDMTA3MXN1bHE0BHNlYwN0bWE-

[hobbit709]

1. What's to explain?

This is what they've done for over five years to a T.

[mike_c]

2. if it were up to me I'd short funding even further....

Appropriate exactly the cost of return flights to the U.S. and not a dime more! Oh-- I'd allow an amendment funding flights to The Hague for Bush and cronies, but only on the floor of a C-130, like this:

[manic expression]

3. WOW

is that picture real? In what reference?

[mike_c]

6. transport flight from Kabul to Guantanamo-- yep, it's real....

This is how the U.S. treats prisoners of war, many of whom have turned out to have had nothing much to do with the war anyway.

[blondeatlast]

4. Support Bell Helicopter, to hell with the SOLDIERS. Revolting.

To pay for the Ospreys, the Senate Appropriations Committee — guided by the Corps — cut into funding for night vision goggles, equipment for destroying mines and explosives, fire suppression systems for light armored vehicles and new vehicles that can be transported into battle inside the V-22.

The panel insists the equipment cuts won't affect readiness. My note: Note the use of "readiness"--not safety of soldiers...

Vice President Cheney, as secretary of defense in the first Bush administration, tried to kill the V-22, to no avail. The aircraft is popular with lawmakers, especially those from Pennsylvania and Texas, which host the manufacturing plants.

"They've hijacked the bill to spend money on their toys," said Steve Ellis of Taxpayers for Common Sense, a budget watchdog group. "You have the V-22, which isn't even ready for fielding and it's getting money in the supplemental."

[rodeodance]

5. n

[Supersedeas]

7. Puzzling ain't it.