We all know about the horrors of not having enough armor on our light vehicles. The anti-war side has in the past gone into full shreaking weenie mode on this subject. So I should update my history of armor in Iraq.
Please note:
Thousands of pounds of armor added to military Humvees, intended to protect U.S. troops, have made the vehicles more likely to roll over, killing and injuring soldiers in Iraq, a newspaper reported.
"I believe the up-armoring has caused more deaths than it has saved," said Scott Badenoch, a former Delphi Corp. vehicle dynamics expert told the Dayton Daily News for Sunday editions.
Wow. Who'd have thought that adding enough armor to protect crew from bombs would add so much weight that they could roll and kill our soldiers?
Certainly not the Lefties who screamed a full metal racket over the subject to score points. And if you disagreed with them you just didn't "care" enough about the troops. The Left never could accept that not every vehicle can be a tank (and even 70-ton tanks can be destroyed, you know) and that in war, enemies adapt and so must we, without every vulnerability the enemy exploits being a criminal error by our side. You can't plan for everything ahead of time. You can't.
So when does the Left cry for the dangerous armor to be removed from our Humvees with an investigation as to why armor is so darned heavy?
