Dems want tougher armor for Iraq troops (and water, hygiene items, etc.)

[RamboLiberal]

http://www.estripes.com/article.asp?section=104&article=18395

As the $87 billion defense supplemental requests heads into the home stretch on Capitol Hill, lawmakers in the House continued to express concerns that deployed servicemembers don’t have the necessary supplies to do their jobs.

On Wednesday, 33 House members, led by Rep. Corrine Brown, D-Fla., sent House appropriators a letter that emphasized the need to supply all deployed troops with the Defense Department’s new Interceptor flak vests, as well as provide adequate immunizations, drinking water and even sundries such as toothpaste.

“It is an outrage that servicemembers, deployed in the Global War on Terrorism, do not receive adequate personal hygiene products and drinking water,” the letter said. “Servicemembers have told us they lack personal items like razors, shaving cream, toothpaste, etc. Congress needs to provide these items to America’s soldiers and not rely on families to continually send their loved ones these necessities.”

Brown sent the letter, which includes the signatures of 32 other representatives, all Democrats, “to emphasize the importance of supplying the troops with all they need,” Dahlia Melendrez, a veteran’s affairs staff member for Brown, said in a Thursday interview.

http://www.estripes.com/article.asp?section=104&article=18395

[nadinbrzezinski]

1. And this is how the demos will win over the

US Armed Forces who have been betrayed by their allegiance
to the GOP.. and yes there is some... how much I do not think
any of us can quantify it