This Does Not Compute
Today on an NPR newsbreak there was a sound clip from the Shrubbery’s press conference:
“My job is to protect our troops, and when we find devices that are in that country that are hurting our troops, we’re going to do something about it, pure and simple.”
Let’s climb in the Wayback Machine and return to December 8, 2004 and a Q&A that the Secretary of Defense had with troops in Kuwait.
CNN reported:
One soldier, identified by The Associated Press as Army Spc. Thomas Wilson of the 278th Regimental Combat Team, a Tennessee National Guard outfit, asked Rumsfeld why more military combat vehicles were not reinforced for battle conditions.
“Why do we soldiers have to dig through local landfills for pieces of scrap metal and compromised ballistic glass to uparmor our vehicles?” Wilson asked.
Donald Rumsfeld responded with the immortal words:
“As you know, you have to go to war with the Army you have, not the Army you want…”
If the Shrubbery is so concerned with protecting the troops, why in February of 2007 is the Washington Post [via Lambert at Corrente] reporting that the troops still lack vehicle armor?
