The premise is a false one.
I don't know how many times I have to keep repeating that the armor issue has been blown up by the media into something that wasn't true.
The meme that the military is deliberately short-changing its troops is a lie.
I'm not going to re-re-re-post all the links again. Go back and look through the threads.
The media wants Bush and Rumsfeld's heads on platters. This armor story was just one more tool to that end. Next week it will be something else.