HOW A POLITICIAN SHOULD ACT

Ever since it became apparent that Hummers were no good against IEDs (and I rode with an Scout unit back in 1994 who fielded Hummers. They had to put a layer of sandbags on the floor for protection — minimal though it was — so the IED/Iraq/Afghanistan problems were not unknown or un-considered), we've seen the speedy push to get MRAP vehicles into the field. Had this been done with anything approaching intelligence and real speed (not what passes for speed in government), a lot of young men and women would be alive and/or have limbs they otherwise don't. Since a push to get these vehicles into the hands of our troops in May 2007, only four soldiers have died from IEDs in vehicles that were so constructed. Now, who is going to explain the previous four, five years to the limb-less and dead?

HERE'S a story about Senators Biden (a Democrat out of Delaware) and Bond (a Republican out of Missouri), who are the kind of people we SHOULD be electing president.

Why the BS American public hasn't been screaming about this is beyond me.

LRRP's World has been covering this for awhile (enter "IED" in the Search bar at the top left). I'll admit I've been remiss about not making more noise about this issue as well, but come on ... hell, one of the MSM's own was on the receiving end, and they couldn't make it a story? Not exactly good reportage.

AP started this round. Let's see what the media does, and watch carefully on who they blame, because NO one in government or the military is blameless in this one, except the people in the field.

This is an indictment of the greed of pork belly politics, and of an ill-functioning, subjective, copycat media.

Hats off to Biden and Bond, for at least doing the right thing now.