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  STONERS

  March 7, 2007, 2:17 p.m.

  About 200 prototypes of the Mine-Resistant Ambush-Protected vehicles have been deployed in Iraq since 2004, said Capt. Jeff Landis, spokesman for the Marine Corps Systems Command in Quantico, Va. No Marine has died while in one of the trucks, Landis said.

  "This is the best vehicle available for safety and survivability," he said. "The MRAP vehicle supplies troops with the greatest protection we've had."
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  topperjax

  March 7, 2007, 3:22 p.m.

  ((Within the past month, the Pentagon awarded about $210 million in contracts to Oshkosh and four other companies in the U.S. and Canada to manufacture a total of nearly 400 more vehicles. Landis said the military hopes to receive them ***by the end of the year***.))

  By the end of the bleeping year??????

  How about a long time ago? This could have saved so many lives, as could have extra plating inside the doors of so many military vehicles that dumbya said we "didn't have enough money for".

  This needed to be done a long time ago, but at least it's finally getting taken care of now.
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  ETproductions

  March 8, 2007, 11:47 a.m.

  I keep going back to Rummy's explanation that, "you go to war with the Army you have. They're not the Army you might want or wish to have at a later time."

  True when your nation is attacked and you have no choice but to fight right now. WAY false when you are launching a preemptive attack on a country that not only has not attacked you, but doesn't even have the realistic capacity to do so.

  But I certainly applaud the drive to develop this armored truck and to deploy more as quickly as they can be built. However, one wonders if 400 by the end of the year is really as fast as they can be built. I seriously doubt it.
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  Bobcat6

  March 8, 2007, 1:12 p.m.

  I'm surprised a story like this has made it to Netscape. I thought there were too many evil forces to prevent this kind of stuff from showing up. What a cool truck. But this won't satisfy the liberals. I'm sure they will try to withdraw the truck from Iraq. We need these trucks in the U.S. also to protect us from the liberals who think they can attack us conservatives.
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  edromar2

  March 8, 2007, 1:28 p.m.

  Duh? 'Bout time. D'ya think maybe they will they hold up sending soldiers over there until they provide them with such protections? Naw it would be chicken to worry about their lives or the wounds they can be sent to Walter Reed to live with!
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  edromar2

  March 8, 2007, 1:35 p.m.

  Bobcat6:

  I may just be a progressive, but I hope that is close enough to poiunt out that Progressives, populists and liberals insist that in any legitimate use of our federal troops, our first requirement is to provide for their safety and effectiveness. Quit trying to make a fight over policy and misdirected agression into some grounds to insist your poilitical opponents are heartless. If anyone is, it is those who sent oiur boys into needless har,d's way to start with.

  We have had 20 years since the resistance of the Mujahadeen to the Soviets in Afghanistan to leard what kind of vehicles are needed in that kind of warfare. Do we never learn?
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  tchef

  March 8, 2007, 3 p.m.

  Let's hope that it takes awhile before they find some kind of weapon that that will work against it.
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  hoppy

  March 8, 2007, 5:33 p.m.

  Humm,and it "only" took three thousand lives before them.And many arms and legs too.
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  hoppy

  March 8, 2007, 5:35 p.m.

  Humm,and it only took it after three thousand lives were sacrificed.
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  hoppy

  March 8, 2007, 5:35 p.m.

  Humm,and it only took it after three thousand lives were sacrificed.
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