I had barely finished my last post when I found this:

Biden, Bond Seek Probe of Vehicle Delay

2008-02-18 19:49:46
WASHINGTON (AP) — Two senators are urging the Pentagon to investigate a Marine Corps report that bureaucrats refused an urgent request from battlefield commanders in 2005 for blast-resistant vehicles. “We need an official investigation to figure out why this happened and to make sure it never happens again,” said Sen. Joseph Biden Jr., D-Del.

Biden, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, has been a longtime advocate of building and deploying more of the vehicles, called MRAPs.

Sen. Kit Bond, R-Mo., said the government shouldn’t have to “explain to the families of American troops that a cost effective solution capable of saving lives was not deployed because of bureaucratic delays or insufficient funds.”

Here’s to more of the same.