An Unfortunate Outburst of Intense Patriotism: Obama: Bush is failing to properly equip our troops?

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Sunday, February 24, 2008

Obama: Bush is failing to properly equip our troops?

Senator Barack Obama made this astounding claim in Thursday night’s debate: “I heard from a Army captain who was the head of a rifle platoon, supposed to have 39 men in a rifle platoon, ended up being sent to Afghanistan with 24 because 15 of the soldiers had been sent to Iraq, and as a consequence... Sign in to see full entry.

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