Easy For Him To Say

"Why do we soldiers have to dig through local landfills for pieces of scrap metal and compromised ballistic glass to uparmor our vehicles?" [Army Spc. Thomas] Wilson asked. A big cheer arose from the approximately 2,300 soldiers in the cavernous hangar who assembled to see and hear the secretary of defense. [...]

Rumsfeld replied that troops should make the best of the conditions they face and said the Army was pushing manufacturers of vehicle armor to produce it as fast as humanly possible. [...]

"You can have all the armor in the world on a tank and it can [still] be blown up," Rumsfeld said.

May as well have said, "Better you than me."

Posted by Eddie Tews at December 8, 2004 03:42 PM