Reply #6: Sorry. There aren't enough bullets available either.

[Lefty48197]

Like the body armor and the vehicle armor, Bush sent people off to war without enought equipment and materials to complete their mission properly.

http://www.detnews.com/2004/business/0405/07/b03-145733.

"The Army could have difficulty meeting its demand as there are few producers outside of Alliant or General Dynamics Corp. capable of producing military ammunition on the scale required, said Loren Thompson, an analyst at Arlington, Va.-based Lexington Institute, which studies national security issues.

“The Army’s industrial base is busted,” Thompson said. “A wide range of consumables from ammunition to armor simply can’t be produced at an adequate rate during wartime. There is almost no surge capacity.”

The Army tries to make up for its lack of surge capacity by stockpiling material before conflicts, Thompson said. The strategy works in conflicts of short duration, but is becoming a problem as the Iraq war enters its second year, he said
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