Army Wants 10,000 new Armored Vehicles

It's too bad that surge didn't include more protection for our troops. But it ain't about that. It's all about the political rhetoric. The troops are just pawns, cannon fodder:

The Army has decided to ask for 10,000 Mine Resistant Ambush Protected armored vehicles to counter the threat of makeshift bombs in Iraq, according to one of the program's top congressional supporters.

The new request is nearly four times the 2,700 vehicles, known as MRAPs, that the Army had sought. That's still not enough, said Sen. Joseph Biden[...]

[...]Requests for more MRAPs may not matter, because manufacturers don't have the capacity to make them fast enough, said Rep. John Murtha, D-Pa., chairman of the House subcommittee that writes the Pentagon budget. John Young, chairman of the Defense Department's MRAP Task Force, has said the Pentagon hopes to build 1,300 a month by December.

Then again, I realize this story isn't as important as a obnoxious student get tasered by police at a public meeting.