U.S. more focused on Sanjaya than depleted National Guard.

In testimony to the Senate Appropriations Committee yesterday, head of the National Guard Lt. Gen. Steven Blum said, “It bothers me that the Army and Air Force and Marine Corps and the Navy are at war and the nation’s watching ‘American Idol‘ and ‘Dancing with the Stars.’” Watch it:

Blum also noted that the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are have left the National Guard “woefully underequipped” to meet the challenges here at home. He “said 88 percent of the Army National Guard in the United States is not ready due to lack of equipment and training, and that $40 billion was urgently needed to provide guard troops at home with ‘meat and potatoes stuff,’ such as radios, trucks, humvees, night vision gears and medical supplies.”