[JasonC]

Oh and then, pace the headline, they blame the people that solved the old problem, for the existence of their own self-inflicted new one. And then want to spend a few billion on half ass fixes that create their own lesser, secondary problems (like off road mobility in this case).

[Cannoneer No. 4]

In November, Mr. Kerry voted against the president's request for $87 billion to fund security and reconstruction in Iraq and Afghanistan. That measure included $300 million for body armor designed to help GIs in Iraq survive the sort of sniper fire that had claimed dozens of American lives at the time.

An additional $140 million of the president's request was earmarked for "up-armored" Humvees, which can better withstand hits from mortars and rocket-propelled grenades.

Yet on Saturday, Mr. Kerry used the Democratic Party's weekly radio address to accuse the president of shortchanging U.S. forces on armor.