Blind faith

Rick Esenberg over at the Sharks and Shepherd blog doesn't think that the bill by Senator Dave Hansen and Rep. Tom Nelson to provide better body armor for our National Guard and Reserve troops before they are sent to combat zones is necessary. His reasoning:

And therein lies the point. I guess I trust the Marines more than I trust Sen. Hansen and Rep. Nelson to decide what does and doesn't work in combat.

Our troops should trust the Bush team that sent them over to Iraq without the proper armor for their vehicles? The Bush team that sent them over to Iraq without the best helmets to protect them so that people have to raise money for them with this website?

This stat from a 2005 MSNBC story proves to me that we should not just trust the Bush team on this:

Of the nearly 2,700 Marine Corps Humvees in Iraq, fewer than 500 —that’s less than 18 percent — are fully armored, while the Marines have suffered some of the highest casualty rates, in some of the most intensive combat of the war.

I don't think they should have to trust that team. Would Rick and others think the same thing if it was him being sent there?