Hold on, folks.  It's going to be a bumpy month.

Meanwhile, a group of soldiers refused to go on a refuel/resupply mission, saying several of their trucks were too dangerous to drive and that they didn't have proper protection.

I don't know how to feel about that.  On one hand, I'm hard-pressed to say I'd be thrilled myself to go on a mission where I felt I was being set up for failure--and failure meaning death.  On the other hand, those supplies are needed by other soldiers, some of whom may meet their own brand of trouble without resupply.

What I'd really like to know is, why don't our soldiers have the equipment they need to succeed?  Why hasn't the Bush Administration gotten their act together, a year and a half after invading Iraq?  It's not like anyone--Congress, the media, anyone--has been stopping them.  Is it incompetence, or are they trying to drag out the war for their own purposes?

I remember an old bumper sticker that said, "It'll be a great day when our schools get all the money they need, and the Army has to hold a bake sale to buy a bomber."  Now that families are putting collections together to buy their soldiers body armor, it's safe to say it's not a great day when either group has to hold a bake sale.