There should be an investigation into these serious allegations but from an independent source. You can't trust this White House or the Pentagon to carry out any truthful look into whether they cost hundreds of lives of troops in Iraq:
The Marine Corps has asked the Pentagon's inspector general to examine allegations that a nearly two-year delay in the fielding of blast-resistant vehicles led to hundreds of combat casualties in Iraq.
The system for rapidly shipping needed gear to troops on the front lines has been examined by auditors before and continues to improve, Col. David Lapan, a Marine Corps spokesman, said Monday night. Due to the seriousness of the allegations, however, "the Marine Corps has taken the additional step" of requesting the IG investigation, Lapan said in an e-mailed statement.
In a Jan. 22 internal report, Franz Gayl, a civilian Marine Corps official, accused the service of "gross mismanagement" that delayed deliveries of the mine-resistant, ambush-protected trucks.
2 comments:
As a sister to a dead Marine... dead to an IED remote attack... I find it severely disheartening to know that his death could have been prevented if the February 2005 order of these vehicles had gone through as requested by the Marines.
My brother might still be alive, and my family wouldn't have had to suffer such a shattering blow.
The only thing I fear today is our own government, for how frivolously they throw away the lives dedicated to protecting the freedom that put them in power.
Terrorists have always existed, and will always exist. An Iraqi may have set the remote IED, but my government may as well have pushed the button. He could have been saved... so many could have been spared so much suffering.
This negligence shouldn't go unpunished... yet I have no faith that we'll see justice done. This government is simply too powerful, too able to control its own fate despite what its PEOPLE want.
How many lives would have been saved if the A-Bomb had been delivered earlier? Stop wasting our money with unnecessary reports and probes.
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