Oshkosh B'Gosh

Oshkosh makes military trucks? I thought they made clothes for kids. Ah yes, the military industrial complex.

Mr. Gates [Secretary of Defense] was in Wisconsin to visit the Oshkosh Corporation, which is making 6,600 trucks to help protect troops from improvised explosive devices, which account for the vast majority of American and NATO casualties in Afghanistan.

The trucks are a second generation of the mine-resistant, ambush-protected vehicles, or MRAPs, used in Iraq, and are called MRAP All-Terrain Vehicles, or M-ATVs. They are manufactured specifically for the rough terrain of the Hindu Kush and can tear up 30-degree inclines, as Mr. Gates observed during a demonstration at the plant.

My goodness, if we pull out of Afghanistan, then those workers in Wisconsin will be unemployed. We can't do that.