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...thought a bleaker outlook in Iraq would help their nominee convince Americans that the time has come to find another Commander in Chief and that new revelations about how the Administration missed advance signs of 9/11 were just the thing to put a dent in George Bush's political armor. Both possibilities have come to pass, but the latest polls suggest they may make John Kerry's challenge harder, not easier. As one Democratic strategist says, "No matter how bad Bush does on the war and 9/11, just having voters think about it kills us." Another puts it more bluntly...
Meanwhile, U.S. Army officials canceled the $327 million contract to supply Iraqi forces with equipment, such as body armor and weapons, after they concluded "ambiguities" in the contract's language might expose the U.S. government to legal challenges from losing bidders. Major General Charles Swannack Jr., commander of the 82nd Airborne Division, says that when his troops left Iraq in January, the Iraqis under their command were still waiting for their gear. "It never came on my watch," he says. Testifying before Congress last week, Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz blasted Washington "bureaucracy" for the Iraqis' lack of firepower...
PLAY DEFENSE As the GE purchase of InVision shows, small-and mid-size security firms are hot bait. They will benefit from both rising government spending and being takeover targets. Among them: Armor Holdings, Verint Systems, OSI Systems and Ceradyne...
...context effect, and has learned to use it to great advantage. Last Wednesday, in an important speech mostly blasted out of the news cycle by another suicide bombing in Iraq, Cheney took issue with the claim of Sen. John F. Kerry, D-Mass., that soldiers who want body armor and other needed equipment have to purchase it on eBay, because the military does not provide it. But Cheney didn’t refute the claim at all. Instead, he pointed out that Kerry voted against an appropriation of $87 billion requested by the president for the Iraq effort, giving...
Military dogs heading to Iraq are getting their own body armor. The Marine Corps trains German shepherds and Belgian Malinois for guard duty and, with added schooling, to sniff out bombs and drugs. Now they will be equipped with Kevlar vests, which protect the dogs from shoulders to rump. The 7-lb. vests (cost: $1,000 each) have pouches for cooling packs--panting alone won't do the trick in an Iraqi summer--as well as loops for ropes to help the dogs climb steep terrain and a harness for parachuting into hostile territory...