Marines want probe into armored vehicle program delays

KBR Halliburton doesn't have problems like this. They buy them, mark them up 40%? and charge the government. Our friends in Washington's stock options rise accordingly.

(CNN) -- Casualties could have been reduced by half among Marines in Iraq if specially armored vehicles had been deployed more quickly in some cases, a report to the Pentagon says.

Marine Corps spokesman Col. David Lapan said the Defense Department's inspector general wants to investigate the report's claims that bureaucratic delays undermined the program to develop the armored vehicles.


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