He's out of touch, they're out of time

posted by The Vidiot @ 8:55 PM Permalink

Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld on Saturday praised the work of an Army brigade whose one-year tour in Iraq was extended just as they prepared to return home, and said he saw no reason for the soldiers or their families to be angry at him.

"I don't put it in that context," he said. "These people are all volunteers. They all signed up. They all are there doing what they're doing because they want to do it.
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Reporters who traveled with Rumsfeld from Washington, D.C., were to be excluded from the session.

Asked why reporters would not be permitted to cover the event, Rumsfeld at first replied, "I don’t have any idea. I haven't addressed the subject." Later he said he makes it a practice to make all family meetings private.

Rummy has to make a special trip to calm the families down and he tries to tell them "They all are there doing what they're doing because they want to do it." Really!? Then why don't you let them have a choice and see which ones want to stay!

And the transparent lie about the reporters being excluded, first saying he didn't know and then saying he always does it that way; you'd think he'd know if he always did it that way.

But then you go to war with the SecDef you've got, not the SecDef you want ... because if you had the SecDef you wanted you wouldn't have started this war!