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I blame the industry and we should put pressure on the industry to upgrade their factories and get more human resource immediately.

Did you even read the article?

They are capable of producing more now, but haven't been asked to by the Pentagon.

That is a lie to me.

Tell you what, I have been asking Department of Defense for up armored hummers from the December of 2003, and even before that TACOM was working on a concept for the armors even before that. This was even news last year. Just weeks ago, I found out that Textron Marine & Land Systems had the capabilities to build more ASV-150 Commandos so I informed the Department of Defense, and just days ago, and even before this soldier made complaints in front of the public, Textron Marine & Land Systems announced they were going to increase their production rather it was by request or not. It should also have hinted that Department of Defense were concerned for more production. If you search through several Department of Defense related sites, you will know news were posted for weeks and months ago they have been contacting the industry for an increase of production and decrease of cost. The Department of Defense posted news that the military industry were working 24 hours a day for maximum capacity what they have at that point. At one point, yes the military industry was at the maximum capacity at that moment, but I think that the military industry had chances for months to increase factory lines of production more than they have now. There was a post on another news on the Freerepublic that one have blamed about the steel related industry not doing their best on production capabilities while they had chance to do so. I have been doing a research from months ago about this concern, and I still think it is the problem of the industry and not the Department of Defense nor Rumsfeld. If the industry had chance for increase, the industry should have informed and that should have been likely because of the profits they may earn in that span.