Chinook order reveals lack of planning

Ordering 22 more Chinooks to help out in Afghanistan is long overdue but the fact that the helicopters won't be ready until 2012 at the earliest is ridiculous and extremely worrying.
Are we really still going to be losing lives in Afghanistan in three years' time?
This really is an extraordinary admission of incompetence, both in terms of equipment deficiency and the lack of any exit strategy.
We could be there for decades.