Yeah, no duh.
And signing 1,000 letters (over the space of more than
a year and a half) takes how long ... It averages out to something like two per day.
In an 8 hr day Rumsfeld has 32 fifteen minute blocks of time. Do you know how many of those 32 blocks can be filled up with people who just want a few minutes with the secretary?
The man is running a war in Iraq and a war against 100s of traiterous current and former senior officers who are far more concerned about their bureaucratic perqs and prerogatives than they are about fighting any damned ward against any one in Iraq. In fact if you listened to most of them we were not even supposed to be able to get there for another 12 months - and only if Rumsfeld could come up with another 4 armored divisions that we don't have.