Soldiers Grill Rumsfeld
 

U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld faced tough questioning Wednesday from troops about to be deployed to Iraq.

Soldiers at Camp Buehring, a staging area in Kuwait, peppered Rumsfeld with queries about the standard of equipment they would be using and about the Pentagon's "stop-loss" policy that prevents troops from leaving the military service, even if they are eligible to retire or quit.

One soldier, identified by The Associated Press as Army Spc. Thomas Wilson of the 278th Regimental Combat Team, a Tennessee National Guard outfit, asked Rumsfeld why more military combat vehicles were not reinforced for battle conditions.

"Why do we soldiers have to dig through local landfills for pieces of scrap metal and compromised ballistic glass to uparmor our vehicles?" Wilson asked, prompting cheers from some of the approximately 2,300 troops assembled in the large hangar to hear Rumsfeld deliver a pep talk.

Damn I wish I could've got more information. Do you have a link to something with more info?

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmp...mi_ea/rumsfeld


heres one off of yahoo

Gotta love him for that.

Someone should have asked Rumsfeld why the vehicle he went there in was heavily armored but theirs are not.

I would love to see a tape of that "town-hall" meeting :D

While I'm glad that soldier spoke out about the armour, I already feel sorry for him.

Maybe this is a bad thing to say, but I think I would be happy if a vehicle with Rumsfeld and Cheney in it got ambushed and were killed.

Well killed is kind of extreme, but it would definitaly make him think again about armoring...

"Soldiers Grill Rumsfeld"

Holy shit dude...

LMAO!

"Serves" him right. :P

Soldiers should have the proper gear when going into war...