[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

If anyone has information to disprove this lapse, I'd be relieved to read it.

Well,..... read thru the articles and threads on the arnmorflap keyword list, including the actual transcript and this one:

And why were they only making 450 Humvees a month?[Because it was law, that's why]

[edweena]

If it was a law passed by Congress, then it wasn't a law of physics. That proves that Secretary Rumsfeld wasn't on top of this. He should have had people in Congress working to change this law, and he should have answered that it was foot-draggers in Congress who were leaving our soldiers in danger. But that wasn't the reason. It was his unawareness of the problem that led to unreasonable constraints staying in place.