House Armed Services Committee meet on IED's May 5.

"Kids are needlessly dying,” raged Gene Taylor, D-Miss., a vocal critic of the military’s process of supplying protective equipment to troops in Iraq and Afghanistan.

“I come to this hearing with a sense of outrage,” said an equally testy Rep. Curt Weldon, R-Pa.

Rep. Ike Skelton, D-Mo., the committee’s top Democrat, said the Bush administration “started the occupation of Iraq without a post-combat plan and without the right equipment for the fight. Furthermore, we were too slow to react when it became clear that post-combat operations would be just as dangerous as the combat phase."

Insurgents in Iraq are "very adept, and very smart, very learning, very innovative," said Army Brig. Gen. Joseph Votel, chief of DoD's Joint IED Defeat Task Force. The task force was created in October 2003 as an Army agency. It now has representatives from each of the U.S. armed services, plus British military advisers. This group - to make it clear - is called.. Joint Improvised Explosive Device Defeat Task Force Integrated Capabilities Development Team (JIEDDTF ICDT)
so that's alright then.