"Last throes" actually delayed successful anti-IED strategy

thinkprogress.org — According to USA Today, the strategy “was ignored or rejected for years by key decision-makers,” like Vice President Dick Cheney, who “insisted the insurgency was dying”: "Those pronouncements delayed the Pentagon from embracing new plans to stop IEDs and investing in better armored vehicles that allow troops to patrol more freely..." Dec 19, 2007 View in Crawl 4