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Bush has vetoed the Iraq pull out schedule bill, no big surprise, but what is the plan for Iraq? It appears that we are in this for the foreseeable future judging by the vehicles the Marines have been ordering.
http://www.nationaldefensemagazine.org/issues/2007/April/Surgeinvehicle.htm
6,800 in one year when we couldn't provide 2,000 up armored Humvees in two years?? Why is there such a sudden a sense of urgency that we are, and will be, buying vehicles from foreign countries? The 2008 election perhaps?
http://images.google.com/imgres?img...um=1&hl=en&rls=GGIH,GGIH:2006-51,GGIH:en&sa=N
These vehicles are going to be very expensive, with some costing in the $100K range. If the vehicles could guarantee troop protection I wouldn't be so opposed to it.
The vehicles are mine resistant with a V shaped hulls. But the insurgents haven't been using mines. The molten copper from the IED's being currently used can penetrate this type of vehicle.
Set one on fire and the guys inside will still cook and that is a lot to pay for toater ovens.
The only thing I can see is that they are cheaper than helicopters, our hummers are worn out and we are going to be in Iraq until hell freezes over.
Amid escalating pressure to deliver better protection for troops in Iraq, the Army and the Marine Corps have committed to buying nearly 6,800 mine-resistant armored vehicles by March 2008.
But to meet the aggressive schedule, the services have made a number of unorthodox buying decisions.
The Marine Corps, which oversees the procurement of the “mine resistant ambush protected” vehicles on behalf of all the services, was seeking to buy 4,060 MRAPs in late 2006. But the mounting U.S. war casualties in Iraq caused by roadside bombs led the Corps to triple its orders. Last month, the services agreed to buy approximately 6,800 vehicles
http://www.nationaldefensemagazine.org/issues/2007/April/Surgeinvehicle.htm
6,800 in one year when we couldn't provide 2,000 up armored Humvees in two years?? Why is there such a sudden a sense of urgency that we are, and will be, buying vehicles from foreign countries? The 2008 election perhaps?
http://images.google.com/imgres?img...um=1&hl=en&rls=GGIH,GGIH:2006-51,GGIH:en&sa=N
These vehicles are going to be very expensive, with some costing in the $100K range. If the vehicles could guarantee troop protection I wouldn't be so opposed to it.
The vehicles are mine resistant with a V shaped hulls. But the insurgents haven't been using mines. The molten copper from the IED's being currently used can penetrate this type of vehicle.
Set one on fire and the guys inside will still cook and that is a lot to pay for toater ovens.
The only thing I can see is that they are cheaper than helicopters, our hummers are worn out and we are going to be in Iraq until hell freezes over.
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