All these years after the Bush presidency rushed to stick U.S. troops into an utterly unnecessary oil war-turned-quagmire, the legacy of those ill-equipped troops stuck into harm’s way is gradually being memorialized in unexpected ways.
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Model kits for American military vehicles are now coming with bits of plastic to stick on to help replicate the appearance of the “hillbilly armor” that solidiers stuck onto their humvees, trucks and other vehicles to try to give a bit of protection against the bullets and IEDs of the fast-growing insurgency. missing-lynx.com/reviews/sma … wcs_1.html
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A Chinese company has come up with a fireworks product called “Hillbilly Armor” featuring a picture of a humvee on its box – as it blows up it shoots out 22 balls of fire. pyrouniverse.com/gallery2/sh … hoto/21562
By the way, if you want to see a radical departure from the Rumsfeldian days when the Bush administration decided it didn’t need to listen to Powell about what the “Powell Doctrine” meant, just check out this article on Gates – the only secretary of defense asked to stay on in the job in a change of administrations from one party to another. themoderatevoice.com/46956/rumsf … -you-want/ With decisions about equipment no longer being determined by GOP theories, that could be one explanation for the emerging data about the massive increase in votes going Democratic within the U.S. military.