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Monday, January 30, 2006

Hillary gets results!

(sarcasm on)
Hillary gets it done in just 20 days!

Body Armor Likely Saved ABC News Pair
By DAVID BAUDER, AP Television Writer
January 30

NEW YORK - ABC News anchor Bob Woodruff, seriously hurt by a roadside bomb in Iraq, has shown signs of improvement and may be airlifted to the United States as soon as Tuesday, the network's news president said Monday.
A hospital official said body armor likely saved the journalist's life.
"They're both very seriously injured, but stable," said Col. Bryan Gamble, commander of the Landstuhl Regional Medical Center in western Germany. He said both men were heavily sedated and under the care of the hospital's trauma team.
Their body armor likely saved them, "otherwise these would have been fatal wounds," Gamble said.

It was only 20 days ago when Hillary brought this to our attention.

Senator Clinton slams Pentagon on poor body armor for US troops
Tue Jan 10, 3:42 PM ET
WASHINGTON (AFP) - US Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton slammed what she called an "unforgivable" failure by the George W. Bush administration to provide potentially lifesaving body armor to US troops serving in Iraq.
"We have not given many of our soldiers and marines the protection that they need. And it is just unforgivable and unacceptable," Clinton, who serves on the Senate's Armed Service committee, told ABC television.
She made her remarks after the New York Times last week disclosed the findings of a secret Pentagon study that concluded that as many as 80 percent of the marines killed in Iraq from upper body wounds could have survived had they had extra body armor.
Clinton, who has called for congressional hearings into the matter, said upgrades to standard armored vests would cost just 260 dollars per service member.
It is our duty to protect our men and women in uniform. They're over there protecting us, protecting our interests. They've been sent there by our president," the former first lady told ABC.
"The very least we can do is to give them the option of having the very best body armor and armored vehicles to make sure that while they're harm's way they can be as safe as possible," Clinton said.

Where would we all be without her?
(sarcasm off)