Bushwacking Rumsfeld.

Armor seems to be the issue of the day. Or at least, the lack of it.

Thank heavens for all of those survival schools that our soldiers and Marines are put through so that they have the ability to find what materials they need. This is what warfare has actually been about since time began. It is about surviving, improvising and making do with what you can find or acquire.

My father, who served in the OSS in World War II, spent close to three months in the sewers in Paris evading the Nazis who were looking all over Paris for him. Dad's contact had been killed and while he was figuring a way out, he "acquired" a German uniform and pretended to be drunk, wandered in and out of the Nazi headquarters almost daily, passing out here and there and gathering information. They kept throwing him out of the headquarters!

The point is that no matter how much equipment you have or want to have as a soldier, there is always going to be something else needed.

Production of armor has gone into overdrive, but apparently not fast enough.

I find it curious that Pelosi, et. al. are screaming bloody murder about armor when she, along with John Kerry and John Edwards, voted against the very bill that provided it. "I voted for body armor before I voted against it....."

Sheesh.