Fire Rumsfeld

The Pentagon awarded Point Blank Armor, Inc. a $500 million dollar contract to supply our military with armor, yet 18,000 of those vests have been recalled because they did not meet ballistic test standards. Additionally, the New York Times recently revealed a secret Pentagon study that found "that as many as 80 percent of the marines who have been killed in Iraq from wounds to the upper body could have survived if they had extra body armor." Meanwhile, David Brooks, owner of Point Blank Armor, isn't letting the inadequate armor keep him awake at night. In fact, he recently threw his daughter a $10 million dollar birthday party with some of his profits.

Someone needs to be held accountable for the inadequate armor. Well, Jonathan Tasini agrees, and points the finger at Rumsfeld.

This is the way the Administration shows its support for the troops? It's ironic that the people who can't be bothered to provide the right equipment to save the lives of hundreds of soldiers run around attacking the call for immediate withdrawal of the troops as a danger to morale. If you ask me, my guess is that the average Marine's morale might be hurt a bit more knowing he may get killed because the civilian leadership sent him to Iraq without decent armor than by the people trying to bring his ass home now--alive.

So, my campaign has launched an on-line petition to ask for the immediate firing of Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld. Sign the petition at: www.tasinifornewyork.org/firerumsfeld