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PR31C - First picture is a JLTV prototype. Completely different. JLTV is an evolving program intended to replace Hummers within the next 10-12 years. It has already sucked up millions without meeting milestones. With luck, that program will be delayed indefinately by the current economic crisis (unless some congressional slimeball sells it as a jobs - read corporate welfare - program). Hybrids were/are one of the propulsion options under consideration. They are NOT ready for prime time. Once again the military budget is seen as a resource to further congressional largess.
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A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself. For the traitor appears not a traitor; he speaks in accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their arguments, he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to fear.
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero (42B.C)
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