Thursday, December 9, 2004
A Matter Of Physics, Indeed...
Just a day after Donald Rumsfeld told a gathering of US troops that getting more armor to them was "a matter of physics, not a matter of money'' and that the Pentagon's sole contractor was working at full capacity to provide them with armored vehicles, we come to find out that he was wrong, wrong, wrong...
Jacksonville, Florida-based Armor Holdings last month told the Army it could add armor to as many as 550 of the trucks a month, up from 450 vehicles now, Robert Mecredy, president of the company's aerospace and defense group said in a telephone interview today.
"We're prepared to build 50 to 100 vehicles more per month,'' Mecredy said in the interview. "I've told the customer that and I stand ready to do that.''
So Rummy knew Armor Holdings was not working at full capacity, but told our troops that they were doing all they could.
That's officially a LIE...
Then there's this. Operation Truth writer, Headhunter7, brings up a point I haven't heard anywhere else regarding the lack of armored vehicles in Iraq:
Rumsfeld gave a BS answer about it taking time to produce enough uparmored HMMWVs and said it wasn't a money issue, but a "matter of production". And yet, only a single company has been contracted to produce modification kits for the HMMWVs.
I'm no expert in defense contracting, but I'm guessing there is, at the very minimum, ONE other company that would love a government contract to help provide our soldiers with the necessary armor.
Just a hunch...
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