[gunnedah]

The Senate was to busy trying to buy Billions of dollars worth of Boeing Aircraft Refueling Tankers that were not needed.Daschle has to direct as much money to his special interest as anyone else.
We could have even bought a few of these vehicles with the 13 Billion dollars Kerry and Kennedy over spent on their 'Big Dig"!

[Cannoneer No. 4]

Spc. James Holmes, 28, who was with the North Dakota National Guard in Grand Forks, where he lived, was seriously injured Monday in Iraq by an explosive device while driving an armored Humvee. He died late Friday or early Saturday at Landstuhl Regional Medical Center in Germany, where he was being treated for his injuries.

Rob Keller, a spokesman for the North Dakota National Guard, said that although Holmes was a member of F Battery of the 188th Air Defense Artillery, he volunteered to go to Iraq with the 141st Engineer Combat Battalion, which didn't have enough soldiers to complete the unit.

The 141st works to ensure that all the main supply routes are safe for travel, Keller said.

"They do this by improving roadways and patrolling the roads to ensure safe conditions and by conducting anti-IED (improvised explosive device) patrols to prevent roadside bombs from being in place," he said.

Perhaps if Specialist Holmes had been driving a $62,552 Mamba

instead of a $250,000 M1114 he might be alive today. But no Democrat senators have Mamba plants in their state.