Are you saying President Bush is not clever? Do think he's not smart? He's a Harvard MBA and ran circles around John Kerry in the campaign. Of course he's clever. He also does not exist in a politial vacuum. He answered the question just as Rumsfeld did -- by saying that we are doing our best to get the best equipmnet to the troops as fast as we can. There's nothing wrong with the question per se -- just the way, manner, and circumstance in which it was asked. See 944.