yeah but there is no mistaking the applause when he was asked the question
I think the administration should view it as useful feedback and say they will be talking to the troops directly like this from now on
Question in my mind is did the troops know the true status or was the applause for a misunderstanding? What was their schedule for conversion, would they really go in unmod'ed HMMWvs?
I think the administration should view it as useful feedback and say they will be talking to the troops directly like this from now on
Remember, that was the reporter's version of the question. Other soldier's allegedly asked questions about the same subject but that wasn't covered. I'm trying to locate a transcript of the entire event to confirm or deny that assertion in one of the articles Drudge linked.
Remember, nobody saw this coming. To get around the time required, they'd have had to seen it LONG BEFORE even Bush's election. In a Slate article, they quote Ted Kennedy mocking the Army budget lines for armor upgrades on Fiscal Years 04 and 05. They were zero. But the Fat Drunk knows full well that when he's reading that in '04, it's a VERY cheap shot. Those numbers are locked in concrete TWO years prior. That's not to say the Army didn't go in for a SUPPLIMENT APPRORIATION.
The media and the left put a LOT of BS out there, just like they did the body armor.
I think some of these troops have to quit whining.
One never has everything one wants, or needs, in theatre.
This touchy, feely, crap started back during the Clinton years when senior command was supposed to get in touch with the troop's real feelings. What a crock.
They have it a lot better than in my day, the same as I had it a lot better than in my father's, etc.
The lesson is: everybody needs to remember there is such a thing as chain of command. It is almost never, ever to be broken. even when invited to do so.
The administration viewed it from the start as useful feedback. What on earth made you think they didn't?