I'm watching Meet the Press and Bush campaign manager Ken Mehlman (you remember him - he's the guy who's 37, single, and doesn't have time for a girlfriend since his life is devoted to politics) says this little ditty:
"Once our troops were at battle, George Bush believed they needed all the equipment, all the support, and all the body armor they needed to be successful."
Huh. Really? Funny, because George Bush sent our troops to Iraq WITHOUT the body armor they needed, and even after the troops BEGGED Bush to send them the body armor, he still refused, until the troops had to get PRIVATE US CITIZENS TO DONATE MONEY TO BUY THEM THE BODY ARMOR THEY NEEDED. To wit:
"The Army National Guard soldiers Lt. Paul Rieckhoff commanded in Iraq... wore Vietnam-era flak jackets instead of body armor for most of the 14-month deployment that ended in March."George Bush sent our troops into harm's way without the equipment they needed to defend themselves. How exactly has this story now become that Bush is the great defender of body armor?
Kind of like how Bush gets credit for the latest terror arrests when he was vehemently opposed to created the Department of Homeland Security.
