A Call to Arms!

[jmcon007]

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/28/politics/28weapons.html?hp&ex=

Read this piece in the NY Times this morning and see what Rummie's up to. Look at what he plans on spending for his super-duper, lean, mean, fighting machine, costs be damned. And then take note of the comments made about it from people you would think would go along with a big spending Pentagon plan.
If a SINGLE Democrat comes out in favor of this......!!
These guys are mad dogs!

[GetTheRightVote]

1. This is just getting more and more crazy as the days go by

The Army's plan to transform itself into a futuristic high-technology force has become so expensive that some of the military's strongest supporters in Congress are questioning the program's costs and complexity.

Army officials said Saturday that the first phase of the program, called Future Combat Systems, could run to $145 billion. Paul Boyce, an Army spokesman, said the "technological bridge to the future" would equip 15 brigades of roughly 3,000 soldiers, or about one-third of the force the Army plans to field, over a 20-year span.

That price tag, larger than past estimates publicly disclosed by the Army, does not include a projected $25 billion for the communications network needed to connect the future forces. Nor does it fully account for Army plans to provide Future Combat weapons and technologies to forces beyond those first 15 brigades.

Now some of the military's advocates in Congress are asking how to pay the bill.

Cont on link.

:kick:

[Richard Steele]

2. This is the MissileShield scam, cubed.

Loony-toon Science-fiction fantasy CRAP used as an excuse to hand TRILLIONS to corporations!


"But the bridge to the future remains a blueprint. Army officials issued a stop-work order in January for the network that would link Future Combat weapons, citing its failure to progress.
They said this month that they did not know if they could build a tank light enough to fly."


"That price tag, larger than past estimates publicly disclosed by the Army, does not include a projected $25 billion for the communications network needed to connect the future forces. Nor does it fully account for Army plans to provide Future Combat weapons and technologies to forces beyond those first 15 brigades."

This is where they ADMIT they don't even have the info to MAKE the plan:
"Paul L. Francis, the acquisition and sourcing management director for the accountability office, told Congress that the Army was building Future Combat Systems without the data it needed to guide it. "If everything goes as planned, the program will attain the level of knowledge in 2008 that it should have had before it started in 2003," Mr. Francis said in written testimony. "But things are not going as planned."

LOL! Designate TRILLIONS now, and we _MIGHT_ know what we are spending them on by 2008 (if everything goes as planned!)

You can't make this stuff up, folks!

Richard

[fooj]

3. Evil, maniacal madmen!

Peace!

[sandnsea]

4. They're not protecting us

We'll all be dead, either from freezing to death because of lack of energy or just flat dying from lack of health care.

Who do they think they're defending? Oh, I know, the investor class.

[necso]

5. In these days,

when "tank" usually means heavy battletank, stripped-down versions should probably have a different name.

Let's hope that it isn't "target".

The Stryker certainly doesn't inspire a great amount of faith in the new vehicles in the pipeline.

[ProgressiveConn]

6. Wes Clark needs to go Eisenhower

and put a check to the Military Industrial Complex. Only way we are going to get out of this crap.

[Swamp Rat]

7. Rummy is destroying our military... we are becoming vulnerable.