A recurring theme of press coverage of the Long War, and particularly the conflict in Iraq, is that soldiers are victims. Exhibit number one in the press's case for the prosecution was the question of armor protection for soldiers--not only armor for trucks and Humvees but individual body armor. Facts have never been allowed to get in the way of these stories--nor have questions about the tradeoffs between mobility and protection--and, if a recent report by NBC's Lisa Myers is any indication, they still aren't.
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