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December 09, 2004
Rummy Cubed
Kudos to the soldier who used a Q&A session with Donald Rumsfield to ask an actual question. The soldier asked Rummy when they were going to get the much needed armor they deserved and needed to protect themselves on dangerous missions. After much hemming and hawing, Rummy's response was:
"As you know, you have to go to war with the Army you have, not the Army you want."
I suppose you can't really blame Rummy. It's probably the first time in a really long time any member of Bush's staff has been exposed to regular people that didn't have to sign an affidavit promising to be pro-BUSH. Still, I find it shocking that Rummy would go so far as to 1) bluntly criticize our Bush-led army in any way and 2)admit to putting our American soldiers in harm's way without the best possible protection in an American instigated war that was not imminent.
We certainly could have waited a few more months, or years to properly protect our soldiers before we invaded Iraq under false pretenses. Then again, if we had done so Bush might not have been a war-time president at the time of election and that's proved crucial to his successful bid for reelection.
In the end, I wonder what the mothers, wives, fathers, husbands and children of all of those red-state soldiers thought when they heard Rumsfield's inadequate response. Was it worth it?
Posted by mermu at December 9, 2004 08:29 AM
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