[mthom]

This “issue” is meant to hurt the war effort and Bush/08 Republican candidates and nothing more. Also, shouldnt equipment be fully vetted before it ever hits the battlefield? Kind of like computer chips on the space shuttle are never “state of the art”.

[Sleeping Beauty]

This “issue” is meant to hurt the war effort and Bush/08 Republican candidates and nothing more.

Uh, yeah. Everything is about hurting the GOP. Just turn on the TV. It's insane.

Also, shouldnt equipment be fully vetted before it ever hits the battlefield? Kind of like computer chips on the space shuttle are never “state of the art”.

Abolutely.

After I posted this, I discovered there are lots of pro-military websites devoted to the Dragon Skin issue.

[finnigan2]

“This “issue” is meant to hurt the war effort and Bush/08 Republican candidates and nothing more.”

- I suspect that you are right. In the program that I saw about this armor, it emphasized that the cost per vest was prohibitively expensive and production was very slow. It would cost the military billions more to order this system but in the meantime, politicians like Hitlery can trumpet that Bush is “not doing enough” to protect the troops.