RUMSFELD SET UP; REPORTER PLANTED QUESTIONS WITH SOLDIER (DRUDGE SIREN)

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[FreedomCalls]

Look at the freakin' grammar in this thing! This guy is a JOURNALIST?

He probably was a student of this journalism professor:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1297510/posts?page=1#1

[kassie]

Thanks for the ping.

[pieces of time]

Blood pressure going up again!
We should also be going after such great Military geniuses as Dodd and Schakowsky who just learned we have a Military. Where the hell were these gripers in the 90's when the troops had to cannibilize equipment to keep things running? Why didn't these geniuses in Congress do something about armoring vehicles PRIOR to Iraq and Afghanistan? No foresight you say? How come Rumsfeld should have known and fixed it in less time than Congress, Cohen and Aspen had? Why didn't the genius Clinton fix this when he was "bridging to the 21st Century".

[Joe Hadenuf]

That soldier is still an idiot. What good does telling the enemy those trucks aren't armored in a public serve?

LOL!

What the hell does this say about our intelligence for allowing this to happen in the first damn place! What the hell would they expect a reporter to do?

I the questions we all fabricated and lies, why in hell did the troops all erupt in cheers when they were asked?

Why in hell did we have a reporter in there?

Where the f**k is our intellegence?

[conserv13]

The other soldiers cheering and applauding, was that made up or a plant, too?

[Raycpa]

Even if the question was "planted", its still a good question. My son will be going to Iraq soon and I for one want him to have armored vehicles available. If it requires putting heat on government than so be it. This country can produce a car a second, its capable of producing enough armored vehicles in Iraq in less than a month for every soldier to have his choice of colors, and optional moon roof.

[Indie]

Then Rumsfeld answered something about it being "not a lack of desire or money but a logistics/physics problem."

Dear Lee: This is not the truth. You are a damned liar. Lies of omission are just as much lies. Your actions and your letter are self-serving and traitorous.

[HairOfTheDog]

The "worried" soldier was a plant. I sure as H wouldn't want to be in a fox hole with him.

That worried soldier has reason to be worried. This isn't a game for him. Yes, the reporter made sure his guys got up to the mike, but the soldier is no child, he bought into the question, and the motive here was not an unpatriotic one. They want better armor. I for one, don't blame them a bit. And this is an American army, not the second best, the best. We have the means to send over the very best of support for those troops. The story that matters to the rest of the guys in that room is that their stuff will be there today.

[wallcrawlr]

does anyone else find it odd to point out the fact that the pentagon is now underdefended...

there were six or eight up-armored humvees. They’re not there anymore.

and that's supposed to be a good thing.

[hushpad]

That soldier is still an idiot. What good does telling the enemy those trucks aren't armored in a public serve? More people will die now because that idiot pointed out a weak point.<<<

I'm getting eviscerated on the thread "DISGRUNTLED TROOPS COMPLAIN TO RUMSFELD" over saying this same thing. Think some DU'ers snuck in. . .

[marty60]

Check out his other articles. he has been working on this little stunt for a long time. I wonder how much info the soldier got from this reporter, not vice versa. MSM propaganda at work.

[GraniteStateConservative]

You're saying this on a message board that was concerned terrorists were using loose FR lips to sink ships during OIF and OEF.

[CheneyChick]

So what? The lack of up armored humvees is still an issue.

[Arrowhead1952]

Check this ping.......

[sully777]

Re; How is this a planted story? Because the media, which was barred from asking Q's, "worked" with the soldiers in the Q and A.

Re: Is it a false assessment therefore wrong to ask? Depends on how the MSM handles the situation. What's the consequence? Better armament? The consequence of the MSM questions appears to be a feeding frenzy (career enhancement and destroying the military). MSM doesn't care about the soldiers (how do you think Reuters and AP get those delightful pictures of terrorists shooting RPGs and mortar rounds at our boys without warning our boys); the MSM cares about their leftist cause.

The Sherman tank was a death trap in WWII. The MSM did not report this. The military rearmed the beast after years of service in the French hedgerow. BTW, the Sherman tank was able to clear the hedgrows after Army personel rummage through the trash for scrap metal to improvise a hedgerow trimmer.

The MSM routinely gives away tactics (Geraldo), coordinates, weakness, and plays to the enemy's PR machine.

[Mo1]

I would like all our soldiers to be allocated ..

That was not the point I was trying to make .. that is not how the MSM is spinning this .. they are making it sound like our government is doing Nothing

[MineralMan]

"That email is too perfect...something's fishy about this..."

That's what I think, too. The email may be bogus. If so, it would be dirt on Drudge's nose. I can't really imagine a reporter revealing such damning information about himself, even to staffers on his paper.

I'm holding off on this one until I can see some other confirmation. Drudge doesn't always get it right.

[FreedomCalls]

God knows it wouldn't be the first time our forces have been sent underequipped into harm's way.

Underequipped? This is the best-equipped military force in any conflict, any where, any time, in the history of mankind. Soldiers will always complain no matter what they have. You can't send them into a conflict with a Star-Trek style force field bubble around them you know.

[GraniteStateConservative]

So what we need to do is strip the armor off existing up-armored vehicles, right?

[talleyman]

The "worried" soldier was a plant.

You mean he wasn't a real soldier but a reporter dressed as a solider?

No, he means he was a ficus...