Less bang for your buck

The Marines are having a tizzy about who did or didn't order enough MRAP vehicles early enough to protect its troops in Iraq. At a million bucks apiece, the defense industry supposedly couldn't produce them fast enough back in 2005, when they asked for them. They're now making a thousand a month (thus a billion dollars a month added to the cost of the war; the military-industrial complex at its finest), which is pretty amazing. Rico didn't think they were getting blown up at that rate...