[SoFloFreeper]

yeah right. whatever.

[Frank_Discussion]

*sniff*

What's that smell? Vaguely bovine...

[Piquaboy]

Sounds as if he is trying to make amends so as not to delay his next promotion.

[Brilliant]

Oh. So the imbed was lying? Not too surprising.

[Wolverine]

Armor installed within 24 hours of soldiers' complaint :

..."In other words, we completed all the armoring within 24 hours of the time the question was asked.''

[paudio]

So, did he get and pass the question from the journalist or not? One of them must be lying then...

[Publius6961]

What a doofus.
A loser and a liar

The wording of that question, the phrasing, the "lecture-while-asking" mood of the whole thing screams...

"I am press and I am clueless, but I am out to get you, na na na na!"

Give me a freakin' break!

[mass55th]

So who's telling the truth here? One of them is a liar...or could it be both?

[cyncooper]

The Time account continues: “As for Rumsfeld's brusque response — that even a fully armored vehicle ‘can be blown up’--Wilson says, ‘Personally, I didn't like that answer.’”

brusque

brusque also brusk ( P ) Pronunciation Key (brsk) adj.

Abrupt and curt in manner or speech; discourteously blunt. See Synonyms at gruff.

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- [French, lively, fierce, from Italian brusco, coarse, rough, from Late Latin brscum, perhaps blend of Latin rscus, butcher's broom,, and Late Latin brcus, heather; see briar1.] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- brusquely adv.
brusqueness n.

Source: The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.

brusque adj : marked by rude or peremptory shortness; "try to cultivate a less brusque manner"; "a curt reply"; "the salesgirl was very short with him" [syn: brusk, curt, short(p)] Source: WordNet ® 2.0, © 2003 Princeton University

~snip~

I fail to see how TIME can accurately characterize Rumsfeld's lengthy and thoughtful answer as "brusque". Unless they have an agenda, of course. Then I can see how they can mischaracterize it so.

[jackbill]

But he added, “I hope I didn't do any damage to Secretary Rumsfeld.”

No, you jackass. You just gave the RATs, MSM and some idiot Republicans talking points that will last until Rummy gets disgusted and quits.

Yeah, jackass. Proud of yourself?

[schaketo]

"If this is my 15 minutes of fame, I hope it saves a life."

Spc. Thomas Wilson seems to hold himself in pretty high regard. I was thinking it was more along the line of

15 minutes of shame

[Noachian]

The reporter Pitts said the question was his idea, and the soldier Wilson says it was HIS idea. Somebody is lying.

[woofie]

"You go to the press conference with the questions you have...."

[funkywbr]

Sounds just like "I didn't NOT have a Relationship with that Reporter"!

[HenryLeeII]

So, in a unit where 97% of the Humvees were already up-armored, this soldier decides on his own to ask this particular question? Given the detailed account by the embed in the e-mail he sent, bragging to his editors back home, I'd say the Guardsman in question is not being honest (for what reason I don't want to guess).

[Antoninus]

Sadly, I think this soldier WAS the embed.

[showme_the_Glory]

He screwed up. Send him to the Russian front. Siberia.