No Armor?

Democrats are once again pulling the "No armor for our troops" card. Fortunately, their words don't exactly match the facts on the ground. Spending the last 11 months in Baghdad, among touring eight other cities, I spotted only a handful of "soft-skinned" HMMWV's (the military version of the Hummer), and those were used on-base and did not have permission to leave the gate into the hostile "red zone."

What the decievers may be whining about is the lack of new body armor that has been promised to our troops. In this case, they are correct. The Army was scheduled to receive new state-of-the-art body armor, called the Future Warrior System, by 2010. Instead, they will receive it by ... 2010. Marines are due to receive it this year.

Michelle Malkin has an excellent round-up with pictures, military expertise, and more fact-checking.