CC: The complaint by one of our servicemen was planted by a "journalist" Who bragged about it later and got dinged by his newspaper.

The soldier would never have asked the question if the journalist had not told him to so it must have not been pressing on his mind.

The Journalist was undermining the US military, and feeding you anti-war protestors for his own personal gain.

Are you suggesting that the servicemen and women are not having to pick through dumps to get metal with which to up armor their vehicles?

The fact is that they have been doing that, and whether or not a reporter was the one to frame the question does in no way alter that fact. And we also have seen that as a result of the reporter framing that question for that serviceman to ask, the US government has taken steps to increase the rate at which armored vehicles are provided to the military, thus saving lives of our servicemen and women, something you obviously couldn't give a shit about.