[heylady]

"Now this one here, you can see the IED tore the whole back end off the vehicle. It's just gone"

Great I asked my son where he sits and he said in the back! Unfortunately they don't even stay in the Humvees but often go out on foot patrol. I pray a lot.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

To make a point here.....

So you feel that there should be a properly armored vehicle of some type for our soldiers ( and your son) to ride in that would protect them from these ?crude improvised bombs

and but for Rumsfeld ...who did not anticipate properly that these weapons would be used.....????