Bush: Soldiers’ equipment gripes heard

[BleedingHeartPatriot]

To colleagues’ cheers, soldier complained about armor to Rumsfeld

NBC, MSNBC and news services

Updated: 8:15 p.m. ET Dec. 9,2004

WASHINGTON - Saying U.S. soldiers in Iraq “deserve the best,” President Bush emphasized Thursday that the administration was addressing equipment concerns like the one about armored vehicles raised by a soldier who questioned Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6676765/
MKJ

[pfitz59]

1. Rummie was usual cold-hearted scummy self.....

Soldiers are apparantly pissed off enough to speak out! Watch the retribution begin!

[NEOBuckeye]

2. Bush doesn't give a rat's ass about anyone but himself.

I don't buy it.

[BleedingHeartPatriot]

3. Gotta support the troops, God Bless Murka

blah, blah, blah. MKJ

[LynnTheDem]

4. "GRIPES"?????????

"GRIPES"???!!

Hey bush, THEY ARE DYING because you have IGNORED THEIR "GRIPING" for THREE FUCKING YEARS you lying incompetent asshole!!!

HAVE YOU PLACED THE ORDER YET for uparmored humvees, bush??? Coz the manufacturer says YOU HAVEN'T.

Stupid MFer.

[Lefty48197]

5. They've been promising to address this for two solid years.

GET OFF YOUR STUPID REPUBLICAN ASSES AND GET THE FUCKING ARMOR THAT WE NEED TO PROTECT THESE SOLDIERS. Which part of this is so hard to understand?

[radar]

6. Hey...

...Shouldn't there be a celebrity screw up or new "crime of the century" we should be watching about now?

[Skip Intro]

7. Well they can't just pay Halliburton less, in order to protect our guys

how American would that be?

[BleedingHeartPatriot]

8. Here's a somewhat chilling response from Rummy in the article

snip>

Asked Thursday about that exchange, Rumsfeld said he believed the session in general was “very fine, warm enjoyable.” As for Wilson’s statement, Rumsfeld said it could be constructive.

“I don’t know what the facts are, but somebody is certainly going to sit down with him and find out what he knows that they may not know,” Rumsfeld said.

snip>

Yep, someone will be "sitting down with him" and the conversation will be pretty one sided. MKJ

[Erika]

9. Americans are finally waking up!

This soldier and his family are making great impressions. His folks and his wife are making TV appearances and are common sense and down to earth in getting the message out that our troops don't have the protective gear/equipment that they need.

Bushco has been pulling the wool over our eyes for a long time.

[teryang]

10. Yeah, like they care

If they hear now, it took two years to get the shit of their of their ears.

[Moderator]

11. Duplicate topic

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=1057730