I read this article.
This falls into the classification that all military people are dumbasses.
Where is that picture when you need it of the soldier flipping the bird at the news photographer as he adjusts his helmet.
Sums up how military people feel about the media.
Back when I was in the Army, we were required to know the chain of command from LBJ down to the company first shirt. "The Honorable Robert STRANGE MacNamara" was there. (Yes, we used all three names, emphasis on the middle--we heartily despised him.)
The media badly screws things up, so let's not all comment on the cause and effect relationship of smoking a cigarette and being seen. He probably lit up back at base and said, "They saw us, so we had to leave."
There is no name on the writer of this article but after reading it I wonder what the point is. There aren't many Americans in Iraq who don't know who Rumsfield is and what he did there. Those who worked for him in the Pentagon knew he was the best of the best in his job. Many a General, tried to run the Defence Deptartment, just as some of the has been retired military tried to do during the past couple of years. Rummy is a true patriot and his loss with be felt by America. He aimed to win...the new man is yet untried, although it has been said about him that he is a talker...appeasment anyone??
There are almost no schools, he said. There is almost no medicine. There is little food, and no electricity except from generators. The list went on. No water. No work. Violence. Abductions. Beheadings. Explosions...In Baghdad, he said, Iranian-backed death squads were killing Sunni citizens. The country was falling apart. “You like freedom?” he asked the sergeant. “This kind? This way?”
That's the problem. You've got to have safety & security first. Someone needs to see that.