MOSUL, Iraq – U.S. Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld visited wounded soldiers and brought holiday greetings on Christmas Eve amid tight security at an air base in northern Iraq where an insurgent's attack killed 14 U.S. troops and eight other people earlier this week.
Hoping to demonstrate compassion for soldiers' sacrifices, Rumsfeld landed in darkness and walked immediately from his plane to a combat surgical hospital where many of the bombing victims were treated after Tuesday's lunchtime attack on a mess tent. The most seriously wounded already have been transferred to a U.S. military hospital in Germany.
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The media didn’t do its job again. When Sec Rumsfeld was here at Camp Freedom Christmas Eve morning he gave a good talk about what how he believes this is a pivotal point in history and thanked us for the job we are doing… The media also mentions that he took questions from soldiers and CNN says that one soldier asked about deployment lengths. Well to set the record straight there were exactly 3 questions asked, the first was a soldier asking about getting out of here around the time frame for elections in 2006… (The soldiers are looking that far ahead, even if the media isn’t) Sec Rumsfeld said that the plan was to keep deployment lengths to no more than one year. The second question was more of statement, a soldier said that he is one of the people affected by the stop loss and he just wanted to let Sec Rumsfeld know that he understands why it is happening and supports it. The third question is the one I personally asked. I said “Sir what are we doing to win the propaganda war, We are getting killed in the media, the media is helping the insurgents by showing every victory they have but they ignore everything good that we do, what are you on higher levels doing to help us win the war in the media?” His first response was “Well you know that wasn’t a question planted by the media” Then he went on to talk about some positive things we are doing and the fact that his office sees the negative reporting in the media and that the media is hurting us especially in this part of the world with people who would be our allies… He went on to talk about other things but I don’t remember exactly so I won’t try to quote him. Anyway just thought I would let you know what happened this morning.
Rumsfield should be jailed for the crime of not being prepared for battle. I bet ya he wasn't even a Weabloo...
Bastard he is, people have died because of his pompusnous (sp)!!! I really hate that guy...
http://www.thebantyrooster.com/imported-data/2004/12/24/a-must-read-email-from-an-american-soldier.html
A Must Read Email From an American Soldier!
This is from Rumsfeld's visit.