Wrong Priorities

America spends $453 billion on defense and our service men are short equiptment? Armor?

We spend more than twice all other countries on Earth added together, we have well over 2200 nukes.
Our service men ask relatives and friends for phone cards to call there family once a week, our service men are also asking where they can get help with personal products they need and can not afford to buy in Iraq. Our Ready Reserve has been told to pay there own expenses's. They had to file a law suit to get the Money they spent returned to them,

TIKRIT, Iraq - Soldiers exposed to Iraq's increasingly lethal roadside bombs, which can rip through armored Humvees, are drawing on wartime experience and stateside expertise to protect their vehicles with stronger armor and thermal detection cameras.
The upgrades are being done by individual soldiers and units as the Pentagon decides how Humvees should be changed, and follow public criticism of the Bush administration for not armoring all Humvees ahead of the war.
Nearly three years after rolling into Iraq in trucks covered in many instances only by canvas roofs, the 101st Airborne Division's 3rd Brigade is adding extra layers of armor to its Humvees.
Col. Michael Steele, the brigade's commander, said he ordered the improvements because the insurgents' roadside bombs — known to the military as "improvised explosive devices" — have become bigger and harder to detect.
"The responsibility of the commander is to figure out what we need to respond to this evolving threat. The easiest, the fastest and most appropriate answer is add additional armor," Steele said.
Iraqi insurgents are also using more anti-tank mines and making bombs that can penetrate the Humvee's current armor. Among the more deadly devices are explosives shaped to funnel a blast through Humvee plating — sophisticated bombs that officials suspect are being imported from neighboring countries like Iran.
Because additional armor won't always stop such explosives — one bomb destroyed an Abrams battle tank last month, for instance — a National Guard unit in Baghdad has added detection devices and other measures to protect its Humvees.

WASHINGTON - Attorney General Alberto Gonzales has agreed to testify at a Senate hearing on the Bush administration's domestic spying program.
Gonzales said he responded to a request by Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Arlen Specter, R-Pa.
Gonzales said Friday he will discuss the legal authority for the National Security Agency's warrantless eavesdropping on telephone conversations between suspected terrorists and people in the United States.
The attorney general will not talk about operational aspects of the program at the hearing or divulge any secret information which would aid possible targets of surveillance.
The hearing is expected to take place early next month.