ABC interviews Obama’s Army source for last night’s ammo shortage claim

Hot Air ^ | 2/22/08 | Allahpundit

[Dawnsblood]

The ABC link is here.

[Joe 6-pack]

Of course the shortage of weapons and ammo among our servicemembers is nothing compared to the shortage Barak envisions for our populace at large.

[Doctor Raoul]

Remember, Tapper's claim to journalism fame is dating Monica Lewinsky and striking out...

[Corin Stormhands]

What are Obama’s vote tallies on funding the troops?

[Oldexpat]

Somehow this doesn’t have much traction when your party has been trying to cut off funding for the war and generally been a pain in the B...over funding the military.
We know that Osbama will tie the hands of the military and give them even more difficult rules of engagement..and send more lawyers into the field.

[Bahbah]

What are Obama’s vote tallies on funding the troops?

He has voted for all of the funding bills.

[squidly]

The two false claims Obama made:

1. That the platoon was split up between Afghanistan and Iraq. The officer in question says guys transferred out of the unit in ones and twos and weren't replaced, and that he isn't sure how many of them went to Iraq.

2. (and this is the more important one) That they had to scrounge for Taliban weapons. That's explained above.

[Corin Stormhands]

Thanks

[Liberty Valance]

[TNCMAXQ]

Obama claims the troops are not given enough equipment by the commander in chief. So Mr Bush is supposed to be on the ground with them personally handing out weapons? Unreal.

[squidly]

He has voted for all of the funding bills.

Ain't true, that.

[SE Mom]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1974655/posts

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[MrB]

Oh, but they ARE all in favor of the Afghanistan action, they say.

It’s just that damn Iraq war that’s causing all the problems with supplies, deployment, and the world’s view of us.

[VeniVidiVici]

The guy commanded the platoon back when he was a lieutenant, which explains the odd incongruence between rank and unit; the ammo shortages were related to grenade launchers and to .50 caliber machine guns, although only during training (problems with finding replacement parts for the weapons persisted into the theater); and they were short on humvees from day one and sometimes had to rely on pick-up trucks.

Wow. Sounds like my first year in the Army under Jimmy Carter in 1979. We didn't have ammunition to train with and it was PEACETIME let alone war!

[mystery-ak]

True or not that is beside the point...the POS O’Bama led the American people last night to believe it had just happened recently...

[lowbridge]

Sounds like my first year in the Army under Jimmy Carter in 1979. We didn't have ammunition to train with and it was PEACETIME let alone war!

And if Obama wins, we can relive those good old days.

[Cyber Liberty]

Quartermaster in Chief?

[rickomatic]

Of course the shortage of weapons and ammo among our servicemembers is nothing compared to the shortage Barak envisions for our populace at large.

You mean the current shortage and high price of 7.62x39, and 5.56? If he wants my vote he better get us back to $99 per thousand round case of that stuff.






Hey....I'm KIDDING!!! Even I'm not that stupid. :)

[Bahbah]

Which funding bill did he not vote for?