The sad fact is that all the statements made by the General and by CBS on this topic regarding shortages are true. One wonders how a country that could produce 40,000 Sherman tanks in WWII coudn't produce a few thousand vehicles and retrofit armor, not to mention bullets or radios. Most of the money was held up and not spent to stretch the $87 billion past the election. This is why the reconstruction money wasn't spent as planned, it was diverted to stretch the money through July-September of this year. A $25 billion supplemental was passed virtually unanimously through the senate and house and signed by Bush in August which put about $1.5 billion to work for various kinds of armor (body, retro, up). It finally got the plants producing near capacity, but that is about it. National Guard units still get shipped out with inadequate equipment and I will note that the plan to keep some forces in Iraq while others join them to get the full count to a peak between now and the January elections in Iraq means that the incoming troops will not have equipment given to them from the units that they will replace in country, so most will go without.
This country would have lost WWII with this kind of logistics planning. Right after the elections, watch for a huge request for funding that has been withheld to get us over the election. Sad to say some will die over election year politics.