this certainly , is reassuring news---Not!

*i'm sure there'll be a surge of new military enlistments after hearing this encouraging bit of info ...

172,000 tourniquets ? after two years of fighting the insurgency in iraq , why so many tourniquets now ? wonder what are they expecting ?

that news and the reported expanding of existing Us military bases in iraq are more indicators that america is digging in and will be there for a while ... 172,000 is a heap of tourniquets ...is the army ordering equal numbers of prosthetic arms and legs for the rehabilitation of those unfortunate soldiers ?

on the second anniversary of this shameful war to secure for the global "oil-garchs" , petroleum reserves that do not rightfully belong to them ,tens of thousands of demonstrators throughout the world mark the significance of this day with protest marches in ny , san fran , london , athens ,rome , ankara etc ...

the international anti-war movement looks to also be "digging in" for the long haul to oppose this shameful , illegal war of aggression and occupation fought against a people who clearly were no threat to america or europe...

Troops getting tourniquets for Iraq

Washington, DC, Mar. 18 (UPI) -- The U.S. Army has ordered 172,000 tourniquets for troops in Iraq and Afghanistan, the Baltimore Sun reported Friday.

The modern tourniquets that staunch the flow of blood in the event of a major injury are often life-saving devices when troops are hit with roadside bombs. Improvised explosive devices are responsible for about half the 1,500 deaths of U.S. forces in Iraq.

The Army told the Sun it expects to begin distributing the tourniquets to every soldier and Marine in Iraq and Afghanistan in mid-April, with distribution complete by summer.

There are about 44,000 of the tourniquets on hand or on order, officials said, and a plant in South Carolina has hired additional workers to increase production.