Are you saying all of those cheering soldiers were in some kind of grand conspiracy to embarrass the sec of defense??
I saw the tape and many more were not clapping the were clapping. Most of the soldiers did not clap.
Wear is a risk, and the contract when one is inducted, does not promis a rose Garden or Armor plated vehicles to all who ride.
Ops4 God Bless America!
No. The majority of them were probably not commanding
officers. (The commanders of this guy were rather upset
because they felt it made THEM look bad.) - The question
came out of left field, and it was made to look like here's
this low ranking guy with the hutzpah to confront the
head honcho about something of substance. I noticed the
guy was reading the question off a paper. I also noticed
that it didn't particularly throw Rumsfeld off all that
much; he didn't put the guy down, he answered his question.
At first, he didn't hear the first part of the question
and had to ask for him to repeat it. Clinton would have
had him arrested later and thrown in the brig if he had
done it to him.
Now, given the Ratheristic quality to the whole incident,
it brings on more thought as to the tactics used by the
MSM to produce the anti-war backlash they want.
Look, it is what it is. You can't change the fact that the "journalist" put the guy up to asking the question and then reported on it as if it were a spontaneous event rather than something he himself had set up.