Congress And The Army's Big Guns, A Love Story

Chicago Tribune ^ | June 30, 2002 | By Michael Kilian

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The nation's capital of late has been riveted by a war--not the one between the U.S. and its terrorist enemies but the struggle over the first big Pentagon weapons program to be targeted for extinction by the Bush administration.

At issue is the Army's controversial $11 billion Crusader gun--a monstrous self-propelled cannon conceived eight years ago in the heady days following America's heavy armor triumph in the Persian Gulf War.

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More Crusader noise.

[Blood of Tyrants]

the huge weapon has had the backing of the Army high command from Chief of Staff Gen. Eric Shinseki

This is the same idiot who decided that allowing ALL soldiers to wear the coveted black beret was the key to increasing morale.

[SamAdams76]

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