"The thousands of troops that President Bush is expected to order to Iraq will join the fight largely without the protection of the latest armored vehicles that withstand bomb blasts far better than the Humvees in wide use, military officers said.Are you fucking shittin' me? "MONEY SHORTAGES"? The hundreds of billions we've already wasted? The $1.2 billion Bush said he was going to give to Iraq for reconstruction? At '$500,000 a piece' that $1.2 billion could buy 2,400 of those Humvees, but what does it matter to Bush? He could care less if our soldiers and marines are blown to bits.
Vehicles such as the Cougar and the M1117 Armored Security Vehicle have proven ability to save lives, but production started late and relatively small numbers are in use in Iraq, mostly because of money shortages, industry officials said".
Send his slutty daughters over there and make those bitches lead the patrol convoys and we would get all the goddamn humvees the Army and Marines ever asked for!