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Posts Tagged ‘pentagon fuck ups’

The Pentagon’s New ‘Shock and Awe’ Initiative

Tuesday, November 27th, 2007

This one's for a certain subset of our readers. You know who you are.The Pentagon finally has a new, workable strategy in Iraq. The Iraqis may not have been impressed with the size of our force or its movements, our earth-shattering explosions or our collaborative efforts with other forces, but the smart folks at the Pentagon think they’ve hit upon on the one thing they’re sure will awe Iraqis into submission.

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Shake It Off, Men

Monday, November 26th, 2007

This is one fucked-up helmet, but at least there's no blood on it. That's good, right?The Pentagon has said that 4,471 soliders sustained injuries to their brains in Iraq and Afghanistan as of September 30th. There’s just one teeny-tiny problem with that number, which is that the the Army, Navy and Department of Veterans Affairs have either seen or treated more than 20,000 soldiers for brain injuries than the Pentagon reports have been injured.

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