The Bridge, the Mine, the Monster Truck

[kandrathe]

I guess you missed the part where the Chief of Staff of the Army, last year, testified before Congress on the 10-15 billion need to reconstitute the Army Units whose equipment has been damaged, worn, or destroyed in the Iraq fun and games. That was over and above the already scheduled equipment acquisition. It only gets worse with time.

Occhi

Not really. The question is rhetorical. I'd expect equipment that gets used to need repair. I don't have any issues with training and paying soldiers or equipping them with the best tools to do their jobs. I'd like people to think about the claims of outrageous funding, since much of these spending bills are not going into soldiers stomachs or pockets, replacing ordinance, or repairing/replacing equipment. Also, they pretend that without a war we would not have a military fighting somewhere else. I have no doubt that if we were not in Iraq, we would have stomped on other brush fires like Venezuela, Iran, or Sudan. Last year Americans spent 2 times more at Walmart than they did on all military spending.