Note this article on Rumsfeld's current visit to Iraq. In one statement he continues to make the false connection between Iraq and 9-11, and in another, blames the question from the soldier on the reporter for "planting" the question. Given the onesided nature of the questions he was asked on this trip, all designed to portray the media as the bad guy, when the real truth is he has screwed pooch, I bet he planted a few questions of his own. The Republican Party has become the Blame Party. Make a mistake, be a man and admit ? Hell no, lets blame the "liberals". News is bad because you've blown the war so bad it stinks like a dead rat? No problem, blame the media. Just more of our slide into Nazism. "Liberals" and "media" - the new word for "Jews" and "kikes". Same techniques, same reason for using it - to portray The Party and its Leader as infallible, and to find scapegoats for everything that is wrong to deflect the blame. Does anybody find it odd we have stories where soldiers are complaining about lack of armor and protection, yet Rumsfeld seems to have found a group in 100% support? Turns out there is a reason for this to - The Regualr Army has been getting all the armor and protection it needs, while the Guard and Reserve troops have been getting the $hitty equipment and flak jackets. Rummy knows as long as he visits RA units, he's safe from the possibility someone mignt make an embarassing gripe. The Army is starting to become as divided as the rest of the country, as our modern draftees - the Guard and Reserves, get screwed while the Pentagon lavishes equipment on its RA bootlickers. Don;t believe me? When you read press stories about troops complaining, note what part of the Army they serve, you'll get the picture :


Rumsfeld needles media as troops bemoan bad press


MOSUL, Dec 24 (Reuters) - U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld on Friday took a delighted dig at the media after troops he was visiting in Iraq complained their good works were ignored by the press while disasters grabbed the headlines.

A soldier at his first stop in Mosul asked Rumsfeld how the "propaganda" worked?

Rumsfeld, under attack since he appeared to brush aside a question about poor equipment from a U.S. soldier in Kuwait that later turned out to have been composed with help from a reporter, jumped at the opportunity to turn the tables.

"That doesn't sound like a question placed by the press," he told his audience to loud applause.

A few hours later in Tikrit, the same frustration surfaced with another soldier complaining that she had a hard time explaining what they were doing in Iraq when she got back home and asking what could be done to get past the bad press.

Rumsfeld said the message was getting through anyway.

"I think the country does understand that we lost 3,000 people on September 11th and the fact that those people were operating in this part of the world ... You've seen the evil up close and personal, you know the danger that this poses.

"What you're doing is important. I think the American people get it."

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