Posted on 12/17/2004 11:49:17 AM PST by MisterRepublican
It may not have been conscious sabotage of the defense secretary, but it's hard to believe otherwise.
Nowhere was the media's irresponsibility on the Iraq conflict more acutely demonstrated than in the barrage of ugly news reports on Donald Rumsfeld's exchange in Kuwait with Spc. Thomas Wilson, an exchange that is still reverberating across the country.
Those who pay close attention to the news are almost certainly familiar with the reported encounter. Spc. Wilson, an airplane mechanic with the Tennessee Army National Guard, asked the secretary an important question: ". . . A lot of us are getting ready to move north relatively soon. Our vehicles are not armored. We're digging pieces of rusted scrap metal and compromised ballistic glass that's already been shot up . . . to put on our vehicles to take into combat. We do not have proper armament [sic] vehicles to carry with us north."
(Excerpt) Read more at humaneventsonline.com ...
Big Rumsfeld ~ Bump!
RUSH cleared this up for me, I've been watching C-SPAN for a playback of the whole event, so far, no luck.
"It may not have been conscious sabotage of the defense secretary, but it's hard to believe otherwise."
More payback from Hanoi Kerry
WAKE UP MAIN STREAM RIGHT WING MEDIA!
Don't be like the silent majority in the 60's and 70's
and turn your back on America and cave in to the anti war minority.
Speak up for America today!
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and is an illegal US Senator per
US Constitution 14th Amendment Section 3
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I have to admit, I was a little miffed at Rummy for that remark. Although I agree with it, it was a little cold, at least in the coxtext presented in the media.
Now, I'm a little miffed at myself for letting the media dupe me once again.
coxtext = context hmmmm
If we have learned anything over the past ten years or so, it is "Never, never, ever take media reports at face value. On anything."
Thanks for posting.
Thanks for the ping, Ernest!
Too bad main stream right wing media seems only to play defense.
They need to be on the offense.
Main stream right wing media could learn
a thing or two from right wing media.
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All of John McPain's lap dogs have jumped on his bandwagon to trash Rumsfeld. The most offensive is Bill Kristol's attack on Rumsfeld in the Weekly Standard.
Kristol was a big McPain booster in the 2000 Repub primaries and since his candidate went down in flames he has nursed a not to well disguised vendetta against Bush, Rumsfeld and other Bush appointees.
She says that the hummers her unit has have fabric doors and zip flexible plastic windows. I was horrified to hear this. I thought that the un-armored hummers at least had solid doors, like the ones you see here in the U.S.
I explained to her that these vehicles were ordered during the Clinton Administration, and that any armoring has taken place because the current administration and Mr. Rumsfield have ordered it.
I don't want my baby going to Iraq under any circumstances, but I want the vehicles armored if she does get sent over there!
Well, as usual, the MSM got it wrong again...
and the "hate Rummy" crowd, including Senator John McCain, jumped on the inaccurate story like a drunken sailor on liberty! LOL
I hope people will realize what the American military has accomplished in three years.
50 million people liberated
with just a little over 1000 KIA's(although we mourn the loss of each and every one)
and with a ten percent mortality rate of WIA's is incredible. That's half of what it was in Nam and probably half again what it was in WWII where we lost over 400K and we won't even talk about the mortality rated of WIA's in WWI and beyond!
Semper Fi,
Kelly
Improvise, adapt, overcome!
Sorry. I listened to the entire exchange on the radio, and the media got this one right. What made it even worse was Secretary Rumsfeld's insistence that only the laws of physics prevented more armored trucks from being produced. Then I read in the paper the next day that the company that is the army's sole source said they were only waiting for orders to produce 20% more armored trucks than their current output.
I've worked for a government contractor, and believe me, no government contractor leaves the government uninformed of their capacity to produce more of what the government is buying. If the company didn't have orders to run at full capacity, it's because the DoD wasn't on top of the problem.
If anyone has information to disprove this lapse, I'd be relieved to read it.
Well,..... read thru the articles and threads on the arnmorflap keyword list, including the actual transcript and this one:
And why were they only making 450 Humvees a month?[Because it was law, that's why]
kristol is on my S*** List, what a damn weasel.........
The army produced about six people in charge of this and explained it to the press a couple of days ago. Catch all the details on c-span. Their presentation of exactly how they are and have responded to need to armour vehicles is pretty impressive imho. As for Rumsfeld, what he said is so obviously true, I am bored by the hysteria.
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