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December 9, 2004
Rummy: Things Blow Up

By now I'm sure everybody has heard about the "pointed" questions Rumsfeld fielded from troops in Kuwait yesterday, but I just wanted to highlight one of his comments.

"It's interesting, I've talked a great deal about this with a team of people who've been working on it hard at the Pentagon. And if you think about it, you can have all the armor in the world on a tank and a tank can be blown up. And you can have an up-armored humvee and it can be blown up."

DoD News

Keep in mind that this is from one of the few cabinet secretaries who is NOT resigning. He is also more or less directly responsible for Abu Ghraib, and has led our country into one of our worst planned and executed wars ever, and that's saying a lot. And now he's trying to comfort our troops by telling them that, armor or not, they can still be blown up.

It shouldn't be necessary to point out that, while an armored vehicle can surely be blown up, the chances of survival for soldiers in that vehicle are somewhat higher than for soldiers in a tin can.

People "working hard" on this at the Pentagon (remember, this running a government thing is hard work) don't seem to think there's much difference. Also keep in mind that we're still cutting taxes.

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