Probe of Delay iin Blast-Resistant Vehicles Urged

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. Sen. Joseph Biden, Jr, Democrat from Delaware, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee said we need an official investigation to figure out how this happened and to make sure it never happens again. He is sure right on that. He has been a longtime advocate of building and deploying more of the vehicles, called MRAPS. Se. Kit Bond,Republican from Missouri, 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.Many lives would have been saved already if they had just got off their behinds and got this going for our service men.