Apparently there's a new "angle" to this week's Rumsfeld fiasco.
It turns out the now infamous question asked by Army Spc. Thomas Wilson was "prompted" by a reporter embedded in Wilson's unit.
The New York Post went so far as to opine today, "Rumsfeld was set up."
Aw. Poor, poor Donald "Hell, I'm an old man" Rumsfeld. My heart just goes right out to the poor S.O.B.
That damn liberal news media. (The reporter in question is from that hotbed of lefty thought, Chattanooga.) I bet the other 2,300 soldiers present for the Q&A were also "prompted" to cheer at the question.
It's really an outrage that the architect of this war has to face questions like that. If this reporter had really done his homework, he would know that:
- 25% of Humvees deployed in Iraq aren't armored.
- The most secure are factory-armored Humvees, and the Pentagon has received only 5,910 of the 8,105 that commanders say they need.
- 90% of the 4,814 medium-weight transport trucks have no armor.
- 85% of the 4,314 heavy transport vehicles aren't armored.
- Two armor-making companies said the Pentagon has declined their offers to pick up the pace of production.
- The Pentagon's proposed budget didn't include money to armor trucks.
But if you read the Post, you would know that it's really only an "alleged lack of adequately armored vehicles," and that "at the end of the day, soldiers need to make do with what they have."
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