A soldier currently serving in Iraq responds:
Armor is armor, who gives a damn what it looks like. Maybe it would make people feel better back home if this "Hillbilly Armor" was painted up to look really nice and pretty, but making it pretty isn't going to make it any stronger. Anyway, the vehicles with "Improvised Armor" are few and far between, and they mostly just sit inside the FOB.
So I know for a fact that our Brigade is covered when it comes to armored vehicles. [...] I'm going to go out on a limb here and assume that the vast majority of people who actually go outside the FOB are riding in armored vehicles. Of course you wouldn't think that from reading Trudeau. That's the travesty of this comic strip. Some schmuck sitting at his breakfast table, eating a bowl full of soggy bran flakes, will read Trudeau's words and think how shameful it is. "Honey, can you believe all those poor kids over in Iraq don't even have the proper armor to protect them from those roadside bombs." "Oh Howard, that's just awful, hey, can you take the kids to school, I have to get my nails done." Poor Howard, he's been hoodwinked by a cartoonist.
Who are you going to believe, a couple of liberal malcontents looking to make some political hay or a soldier who uses (and trusts his life with) the armored vehicles in question?
(via The Indepundit)