Kerry To Present Bill To Reimburse Families Buying Body Armor For Soldiers

[DrFunkenstein]

John Kerry Criticizes Bush on 9/11 Response

Unveils Homeland Security Initiatives and Plan to Reimburse Military Families for Body Armor

Democratic candidate for President John Kerry today stood up to the Bush Administration for their response to the terrorist attacks of September 11th and for failing to provide U.S. soldiers in Iraq with the proper protective body armor.

In San Diego today, John Kerry and two of his swift boat crewmates commemorated the sacrifice of those who died in the attack on Pearl Harbor by placing a wreath at the swift boat memorial at the Coronado Naval Amphibious Base where Kerry trained for his service in Vietnam. John Kerry also unveiled details of his plan to improve intelligence gathering, protect U.S. ports, and reimburse military families for body armor purchases.

One-fourth of the 130,000 U.S. troops in Iraq are still waiting for the latest body armor. In the meantime, family members and friends are paying hundreds of dollars for the updated armor themselves and shipping it to Iraq. On Tuesday Kerry will introduce legislation to reimburse family members who paid money out of their own pockets to provide the personal body armor that the government failed to deliver.

"In the rush to war, this administration failed to adequately outfit military personnel shipping off to Iraq. As a result, many of our fighting men and women do not have the latest technology for body armor. It's a disgrace that their families had to use their own funds to buy the body armor and ship it to Iraq. My legislation will reimburse those families," said John Kerry.

http://www.johnkerry.com/pressroom/releases/pr_2003_1207a.html

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[Lefta Dissenter]

1. GOOD FOR HIM! (eom)

[candy331]

2. Is Kerry getting

desperate enough to give up the information yet? Good for him to stand up though.

[bobbieinok]

3. ??????What information??????

.....

[bobbieinok]

4. Get this to TV and radio

Only internet people see this.

[sandnsea]

5. Sad it's come to this

Completely unreal. No words to describe it. Legislation to reimburse families for military expenses when we have a $400 billion defense budget. Unreal.

[KittyWampus]

6. John Kerry Reminds Me Of Lincoln In That Photo!

The Real Deal... I like that.

Good going Kerry!

[arewethereyet]

7. cool

hope it goes somewhere

[jpgray]

8. This is very smart

Kudos to Kerry for coming up with this one.

[funkyflathead]

9. National Guard are the one's with no armor

Since Vietnam they have been underfunded and underequipped.

I seriously doubt front line infantry don't have body armor.

I know that most NG folks don't have any.

Blame the Pentagon mainly.

[JohnKleeb]

10. Good for him, glad hes speaking out

He's been good as of late.

[jburton]

11. Kick Ass!

I dare any Repuke to vote against it.

This should also get more 'mainstream' coverage of the fact that bush* is screwing over our troops.

Good on Kerry.

[DrFunkenstein]

12. I'd Love To See The Repukes Take This One On!

n/t

[sistersofmercy]

16. Haha! Me too!

It's sort of like about a week ago when we had an invasion, the trolls were claiming they knew nothing about the lack of flak jackets. Though, I'm not surprised they didn't. "Who me?"

[sistersofmercy]

13. Fantastic!

Wow!

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

14. It's amazing we need a separate bill for this.

But hey, we're getting Star Wars off the ground!

Good for Kerry.

[DrFunkenstein]

15. Watched Star Wars Tonight, Actually (Very Different After Iraq)

It was hard not to find all kinds of parallels with the current war. We always like to think of ourselves as the rebels, but when I saw Luke's parents as charred skeletons, it looked eerily like some of the places bombed recently.

Sorry. Weird train of thought.

[DeepModem Mom]

17. kicking