SEATTLE PI - Iraq War: Another fatal mistake

SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER EDITORIAL BOARD

The arrogance that infected military leadership early on in the Iraq war is evidenced by the April 2003 decision by Army Gen. Richard A. Cody that some 50,000 American soldiers there didn't need body armor.

That error just one month into the war has literally been a fatal one.

One month later, according to an Army inspector general's report obtained by The New York Times, Cody recognized the mistake and ordered that the Army buy as much body armor as it could. The soldiers did start getting the vests -- 167 days later. For thousands of our troops, it took weeks and even months longer.
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America's military leadership has proved repeatedly ill prepared in this ill-conceived war. And it's always the soldiers in the field who pay the price, with their lives. As for Cody, he's now the Army's chief of staff

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