Rumsfeld Questioned by Troops

To begin, I liked the fact that Rummy took the questions in the first place. Regarding the armor for the vehicles, his answer of "we're moving fast as possible" just doesn't cut it. They've been there for over 2 years now. In WWII, the made Liberty ships in a matter of days. I doubt in today's day and age, the military can add armor plating to Hummers.

I think he was clueless to the problems soldiers were having getting travel reimbursements and hopefully he'll address the issue. The military needs to get its act together regarding its logistics and finance.

Congress, meanwhile, is patting itself on the back for its intelligence reform bill which probably does nothing but change around bureaucracy.

Secretary Donald Rumsfeld on Wednesday faced open criticism from his own U.S. troops, who complained about inadequate armor for Iraq...Now why do we soldiers have to dig through local landfills for pieces of scrap metal and compromised ballistic glass to up-armor our vehicles? And why don't we have those resources readily available to us?" ... Rumsfeld conceded that "not every vehicle has the degree of armor that it would be desirable for it to have," and said the Army was hurrying to rovide more armored vehicles, adding 400 per month. But Rumsfeld added, "As you know, you go to war with the Army you have, not the Army you might want or wish to have at a later time." Yahoo News