YOU'RE DOING A GREAT JOB, NOW SHUT UP AND DIE LIKE YOU'RE TOLD

This story should have the entire U.S. Congress and the so-called mainstream media screaming 24/7 until the situation is corrected. The situation, which has been well known for some time and which John Kerry tried to address during the presidential campaign, has effectively been ignored. How can that be? Isn't "support for the troops" a holy value in the U.S., especially today?

The row over America's failure to send enough military vehicles to Iraq took a new twist yesterday when the company that manufactures them said it could deliver 1,200 more a year, but has had no request from the Pentagon.

How can this be justified? Is no-one to be held accountable?

The success of message manipulation: my nephew, who returned late this summer from a tour of duty in Iraq, described the situation precisely as it's been reported, but when I asked if he resented the administration because of it his response was, oh no! It's not the president's fault -- it's the fault of THE CONGRESS.