Pentagon: 80 percent could have been saved by body armor

Mass. pols blast Bush for skimpy GI armor

Bay State congressional leaders yesterday blasted the Bush administration over a new Pentagon study that revealed as many as 80 percent of Marines killed in Iraq from torso wounds could have survived if they had better body armor.

80 is a pretty high percentile, no?

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