The guy makes it sound like we could have done it last spring. My own read is that we didn't have the inventory to do it. Basically, Clinton had sold off too much of our military inventory for DNC donations.
Last spring I called a guy about some question regarding a barrel for a target rifle and the guy told me he didn't have time for any sort of civilian firearm business just then, that he was working 24-hour days and seven day weeks making machinegun barrels. The United States was basically out of machinegun barrels. That's a simple basic item which we should have warehouses full of. A machinegun can only fire a couple of hundred shots before you switch the barrel and let the one you just used cool off. A machinegun crew consists of the gunner, a guy to load ammo belts, and a third guy to change barrels. The idea of the United States having run out of machinegun barrels is unbelievable. It's also unbelievable that the Bush administration has somehow or other gotten our inventories up enouth to do something for Iraq in the short time he's had. He inherited a total unbelievable mess.