Monday - November 19, 2007

Remember when the Left Said Bush was Killing the Troops with Lightly Armored Humvees? 

Do you remember? Bush and Rumsfeld were killing the troops because they weren't up-armoring the humvees fast enough.

If you don't, go to John Kerry's Senate homepage and read his rant about the administration failing the troops.

And 90% of American fatalities from these terrible weapons have come in Baghdad. Baghdad— where against the warnings of former secretary of state Colin Powell, Gen. John Abizaid and the entire Joint Chiefs of Staff last year—the President is sending five brigades to referee a Sunni-Shia civil war. And we're sending them without the protection they need to survive EFP attacks.

Since the defeatist Democrats have refused to fund the war in Iraq, it seems a system to stymie IED's won't reach our troops. The Democrats really support the troops, don't they?

If Congress does not come through with a supplemental bill President Bush will sign, money for defeating the largest killers of American personnel in the war on terror will run out Dec. 1, a senior official said here today.

Retired Army Gen. Montgomery C. Meigs, director of the Joint Improvised Explosive Device Defeat Organization, told Pentagon reporters that the organization will have to stop funding new initiatives and just maintain operations.

“We’re out of (funding) new stuff now; we’re going to have trouble sustaining current contracts after the first of December,” Meigs said.

The anti-IED organization needs the funding to sustain operations and to pay for equipment fielded but not yet turned over to the services for funding, Meigs said. For example, he said, his organization funds the Guardian man-portable jammer, the contractors to service it, and the training in the system.

The organization tests new projects, ideas, ways of doing business and equipment against IEDs. If they prove effective, the organization is nimble enough to quickly can get the equipment to the hands of servicemembers. Meigs said the organization has enough money “to keep the lights on” through April. The organization is funded via supplemental spending bills.

“What I can’t fund today will not go into the field next summer or next fall,” Meigs said. “It’ll be delayed by the amount of time we wait for funding.” Read more....

Author: The Machiavellian
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