You can both vote and hold a rifle.

A vote is like a rifle; its usefulness depends upon the character of the user.

I think everybody would agree they're under-equipped.

You're watching the insurgents develop more sophisticated methods of attack, and more sophisticated IEDs. They're using shaped charges and anti-tank mines stacked together. They're using 500-pound bombs that can destroy any armored vehicle. They're using these so-called swarming attacks, firing several RPG rounds at one lightly armored vehicle.

Logically, you do regroup after something like this and you~ don't go forward with the existing schedule,

We did not plan three years ago to create more than token Iraqi forces. Now we're at 230,000 roughly and counting. Our whole strategy is dependent on the success of the Iraqi army and the Iraqi police.