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Obama DHS Purchases 2,700 Light-Armored Tanks to Go With Their 1.6 Billion Bullet Stockpile
Gateway Pundit ^
| March 3, 2013
| Jim Hoft
Posted on 03/04/2013 12:59:14 AM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
These were designed, as I understand it, to ward off mines and IEDs put together by third world irregulars. That's correct. MRAPs aren't difficult to destroy, but they do an outstanding job of protecting the occupants inside.
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To: expat1000
What color is the boathouse at Hertfordshire? Bet they don’t know. My Boy Scout troop in the early 70’s was quite a bit meaner looking than that crew.
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posted on
03/04/2013 2:52:34 AM PST
by
2ndDivisionVet
(I'll raise $2million for Sarah Palin's presidential run. What'll you do?)
To: Tzimisce
Hopefully they'll transform them into electric little things. That would be about right for this administration.
They'll be DOA if they bring them out.
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posted on
03/04/2013 2:55:46 AM PST
by
Northern Yankee
(Where Liberty dwells, there is my Country. - Benjamin Franklin)
To: Truth29
Did the French Resistance, Warsaw Jews, drug cartels or the Viet Minh need rocket-propelled grenades or bazookas to take out tanks and armored cars?
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posted on
03/04/2013 2:57:36 AM PST
by
2ndDivisionVet
(I'll raise $2million for Sarah Palin's presidential run. What'll you do?)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
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posted on
03/04/2013 2:57:57 AM PST
by
arthurus
(Read Hazlitt's Economics In One Lesson ONLINE www.fee.org/library/books/economics-in-one-lesson)
To: Truth29
They have to get out at some point ....
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posted on
03/04/2013 2:58:13 AM PST
by
Kozak
(The Republic is dead. I do not owe what we have any loyalty, wealth or sympathy.)
To: 21twelve
“Interesting photo with the four spare tires.”
Look at the wheel hubs. It would take an air wrench and a weekend to change them out.
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posted on
03/04/2013 3:08:47 AM PST
by
Makana
To: Kozak
I hear ammonia is good at making the vehicles uninhabitable.
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posted on
03/04/2013 3:16:52 AM PST
by
ez
(Laws only apply to little people. Criminals, politicians, and newsies are exempt.)
To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
Those tanks will come in very handy once DHS personnel turn on Obama and use them against him or they are commandeered out of their hands...
Your tax dollars at work against you. Insane when you think about it.
To: maddog55
my son drove one of these in Afghanistan and they get stuck in the mud real easy. and it takes aniother two of them to pull it out.
they also arent that great for “mine” protection.
To: 2ndDivisionVet
In the right hands, 2,700 of these sturdy SUV’s could make a border enforcement much easier...in the right hands.
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posted on
03/04/2013 3:28:55 AM PST
by
Dixie Yooper
(Ephesians 6:11)
To: Dixie Yooper
Ike died a long time ago.
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posted on
03/04/2013 3:32:57 AM PST
by
2ndDivisionVet
(I'll raise $2million for Sarah Palin's presidential run. What'll you do?)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
I wonder how well those MRAPs work when covered with a couple hundred gallons of gasoline.
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posted on
03/04/2013 3:42:18 AM PST
by
muir_redwoods
(Don't fire until you see the blue of their helmets)
To: muir_redwoods
Paint ball all the windows.....
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posted on
03/04/2013 3:43:48 AM PST
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Kozak
(The Republic is dead. I do not owe what we have any loyalty, wealth or sympathy.)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
Who the hell is allowing payment for that stuff?. The U.S. couldn’t buy body arm for our soldiers but can buy this stull for his upcoming civil war. Call your congress dofusses to stop the payment for this stuff. I have no doubt Odumbo is getting ready for his planned civial war that will take place right HERE when he creates his marshall Law event and names himself a King of the U.S.
Enough is enough! (I’m getting piss#d)
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posted on
03/04/2013 3:46:08 AM PST
by
DaveA37
To: 2ndDivisionVet
They are getting ready to put down an insurrection.
And they don’t know if it will come from the right or left (they really don’t).
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posted on
03/04/2013 3:49:40 AM PST
by
redgolum
("God is dead" -- Nietzsche. "Nietzsche is dead" -- God.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
The Department of Homeland Security (through the U.S. Army Forces Command) recently retrofitted 2,717 of these Mine Resistant Protected vehicles for service on the streets of the United States.Retrofitted. Basically, in reading the comments at the various websites, some posters are saying these are leftover vehicles from Iraq and Afghanistan and are being upgraded so they don't rot.
These are NOT new purchases as implied by the headline. Which calls into question some of the other claims. I would take this reporting with a grain of salt. Let's get some more facts before leaping to conclusions.
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posted on
03/04/2013 3:57:01 AM PST
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dirtboy
To: Kozak
"They have to get out at some point ...."
They'll need fuel and LOTS of maintenance at the unit level, too.
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posted on
03/04/2013 4:03:52 AM PST
by
Psalm 73
("Gentlemen, you can't fight in here - this is the War Room".)
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