On This Date in Bush History 12/8: A Soldier's Plea
"Wrong none by doing injuries, or omitting the benefits that are your duty." Benjamin Franklin's Thirteen Virtues
2004: To the cheers of his fellow troops, a soldier complained to President Bush's Defense Secretary, Donald Rumsfeld, saying "Our vehicles are not armored. We’re digging pieces of rusted scrap metal and compromised ballistic glass ... to put on our vehicles to take into combat". Spc. Thomas Wilson of the Tennessee National Guard added, "We do not have proper armored vehicles".
While saying that work is being done to improve the situation, Mr. Rumsfeld added that "you go to war with the army you have". The truth, of course, is that President Bush's people picked the schedule for this fight. It didn't have to happen until the Pentagon could provide U.S. troops with the protection they deserve.
"I think war is a dangerous place." President Bush, May 7th 2003
Read more in the 2008 Calendar/Day Planner/Stocking Stuffer: "Poor George's Almanac"
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