Who gets the armored Humvee today?

We all support our troops currently fighting the war in Iraq, and we all hope to see them come home safely. While they are over there, we hope that the troops will have the best equipment possible to help them meet those goals. And under the Bush plan, they will have those things, hopefully by April, 2005.

That would be about three years and about 1122 soldiers too late, I think.

"I am really surprised that planners relied on the best-case military scenario," said Jonathon Turley, a military historian at George Washington University Law School who wrote last year about shortages of body armor. He was then deluged with e-mail messages from soldiers complaining of such shortages, 90 percent of them from the National Guard and Reserve.

Time for new leadership? I'm thinking so.