Mine-Resistant Ambush Protected (MRAP) Vehicle

On Friday, May 25, 2007 CBS Evening News carried a noteworthy story about the MRAP Vehicle. If our Country had these vehicles in service in Iraq for the many missions that our Soldiers and our Marines conduct we would most likely have 1700 fewer combat deaths of our Nation's Heroes. So you ask, Why do we not have these vehicles in service? I also see red when I think of this situation. According to the news report I witnessed, it is because we are caught up in red-tape and other considerations. All weekend long we have witnessed our young heroes answer the Question - "What Price Freedom." Today we have to ask ourselves - What Price Protection? Do we have bureaucrats and even our Nation's Lawmakers at odds on how to fund the War on Terrorism? Do we have citizen peers that have their own turf to protect that they are now compromising the safety of our Nation's Defenders? A very difficult question, but I am Thankful that the CBS evening news exposed this great, if not the greatest malfeasance ever conducted in the history of our great Nation.

I can recall studying history in my youth and learning about the Liberty Ships that were built to assist in the transport of supplies during World War II. I include a picture of just one of the about 3000 constructed in the World War II Era.

"Soon the Kaiser yards were building Liberty Ships in a month -- then in ten days. Finally they finished one in just four-and-a-half days. Kaiser ate steel so fast he had to set up his own mill."

We did this some sixty years ago. What is the problem today? We do have improved technology? Now before anyone goes off and dismisses the ability of the Kaiser Shipyards and that they possibly had advance information about World War II, may I suggest that they enter the Words: "Liberty Ship" in their Search Engine and ascertain for themselves that the Kaiser production of Liberty Ships was the result of break through thinking. We are certainly capable of breakthrough thinking today, if we will but just allow ourselves to do so.

Images and the quote obtained from the World Wide Web.