No good reason

The US is liberating Iraq, we are told, and the soldiers are treated like kings. Or not:

“A secret Pentagon study has found that as many as 80 percent of the marines who have been killed in Iraq from wounds to the upper body could have survived if they had had extra body armour. Such armour has been available since 2003, but until recently the Pentagon has largely declined to supply it to troops despite calls from the field for additional protection, according to military officials.”

These figures are devastating and prove, not unlike Vietnam, that soldiers are expendable. The main difference this time lies in the fact that anti-war sentiment within the armed forces is growing much quicker than during the Vietnam era.

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