I agree that you "go to war with the army you have," but it is also imperative you give the troops the best possible means to conduct that warfare. They knew there was a problem and the Defense Dept. should have been protesting loud and clear until the problem was solved. It is criminal to just say they only funded 450 a month, so that's all we could do. They should have responded to this problem.
I'm not calling for Rumsfeld to resign, but when a mistake is made it should be answered. This is akin to Janet Reno's, "I take full responsiblity," but none of the consequences.
What nonsense.
This Humvee thing has just kept popping up. The armor thing. It would seem to me that it REALLY needs to be FIXED. It is making Rumsfeld and the Administration look bad, and it is just not smart to keep the status quo. DO something REALLY concrete about it, so next time a liberal reporter plants a question about ARMOR, the answer can be, "We have done thus and thus and thus to the extreme . ."
There was a blurb in a Tennessee newspaper that had an old picture of Rumsfeld on one side, this same "soldier" who asked the question on the other side, and someone else in the middle (wife I think) and he was purported to have asked the same type of question about armor at that time in a "town hall" type of meeting a year or so ago. So, if Rumsfeld gets waylaid by this same guy again in a town hall forum, I won't feel sorry for him. Wake up!