There is more to this story and I am not sure that it is good - having to use toyotas pickups because humvees were scarce and more.
Lets face it - this war is going on longer than WWII and I am not surprised there are reports of major shortages.
We need to do something.
Like establishing the facts instead of leaping to conclusions.
Maybe we should not be assuming a political PR statement, make to prop up an particular partisan political agenda, is factual simply because a political canidate made the statement?
Maybe, just maybe, Barry Obama is misquoting or misstating what his anonymous source told him? Maybe, a situations that the anonymous source is claiming took place in 2003, should not be being used, 5 years later, for partisan political reasons by a candidate in the 2008 Presidential Elections?
Yeah, and with about 1% of the casualties and property damage of WWII.
Are you trying to make a relevant point?
The Korean War has gone on since 1950. There was only a ceasefire you know.
The Toyota 4x4 pickup has long been a favorite in Afghanistan. It can negotiate narrow passages the larger Humvee can't get through. The Afghan army contingent that commonly accompanies Coalition forces in the field use the Toyota pickups as their primary vehicles.
Furthermore, using captured enemy weapons against the enemy has always a tradition of militaries around the world. Check out this American training film from WWII on the German hand grenade Captured Potato Mashers