Grandma's House

The Military Times took a survey of the average soldier-on-the-street, so to speak. Amazingly, the majority of the soldiers polled don't blame President Bush or Donald Rumsfeld for their armor woes.

Sixty percent blame Congress for the shortage of body armor in the combat zone, reports USA Today in its coverage of the Times survey.

In more bad news for congressional Iraq War critics, 63 percent of active duty personnel said they approve of the way President Bush is handling the war. Further confounding media attempts to demoralize the troops, 66 percent of soldiers surveyed say the war is worth fighting.

In addition, 87 percent of soldiers say they're satisfied with their jobs and, if given the choice today, only a quarter of troops surveyed say they'd leave the service. The latter number is particularly impressive, considering that nearly half say they expect to be there more than five years.

Now why don't the mainstream media feel the same way? They seem to think the numbers should be the other way around!