Ok so I was reading a Reuters news story online, when I came to this statement:

"[Army Chief of Staff Peter] Schoomaker acknowledged up to 25 percent of the Humvees in Iraq still had the low grade of protective armor, but he said all should be equipped with higher grade armor in September."

Wait a minute. After the big stink up last year with the one soldier asking Rummy why they had to use trash to armor their humvees, you are telling me that STILL a full 25% of the humvees do not have the full body armor? Are you kidding me?! After all the talk about how production of this armor would be ramped up?! Come on!

What could possibly be the excuse for this? Support our troops is the Republican mantra, supposedly aimed at us on the left, wrongfully claiming that since we are against this war that we are against the troops! But yet they aren't supporting the troops, there is NO excuse for why after nearly 2.5 years in Iraq our military does not have all the armor, all the supplies, that it needs.

Unacceptable.