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If We're Going to Send the National Guard to Iraq...

By mikethemadbiologist on February 22, 2007.

...we might want to issue them rifles. From the NY Times:

"We're behind the power curve, and we can't piddle around," Maj. Gen. Harry M. Wyatt III, commander of the Oklahoma National Guard, said in an interview. He added that one-third of his soldiers lacked the M-4 rifles preferred by active-duty soldiers and that there were also shortfalls in night vision goggles and other equipment. If his unit is going to be sent to Iraq next year, he said, "We expect the Army to resource the Guard at the same level as active-duty units."

...Capt. Christopher Heathscott, a spokesman for the Arkansas National Guard, said the state's 39th Brigade Combat Team was 600 rifles short for its 3,500 soldiers and also lacked its full arsenal of mortars and howitzers.

This administration is utterly incapable of doing the most basic task correctly. But the Republicans are the ones supporting the troops...

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Yah. The Democrats don't support the troops: we want them stuck in Iraq for longer and longer periods of time, without armor, without armored vehicles, without interpreters, without weapons...

Oh. Wait.

Now I'm confused.

good job!we want them stuck in Iraq for longer and longer periods of time, without armor, without armored vehicles, without interpreters