the people are beginning to see why us 'leftists' were screaming.

DesMoinesRegister.com: "Regarding the Dec. 9 article, 'Rumsfeld Encounters Some 'Friendly Fire' ': As a father of an Army soldier who put his life on the line for W's father in the Persian Gulf War and is still on active duty, it appalls me to hear this representative of our government tell our troops to more or less suck it up and go out and get killed because this administration has squandered the money that was supposed to be used to protect you.
The show of such low regard for their lives sure doesn't sound like they are supporting our troops. I hope Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld doesn't have one of those 'Support Your Troops' stickers on his armored vehicle.

-Staff Sgt. Billy Dunbar,
Patterson.
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When Donald Rumsfeld says, 'You go to war with the Army you have, not the Army you might want or wish to have at a later time,' he seems to have forgotten that the United States was not forced into action. We selected the time. We selected the place. We selected the equipment. Mistakes were made, and key figures in this administration continue to ignore or deny that fact. Rumsfeld often responds to questions from reporters with patronizing half-truths. That is annoying. When he does the same to questions addressed to him from soldiers in the field it is inexcusable.

-David Ketcher,
Des Moines.
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The image of U.S. soldiers scavenging in trash dumps for makeshift armor is appalling. Donald Rumsfeld and other members of the administration chose to go to war pre-emptively with the Army they had. The United States had not been attacked. The administration could have chosen to wait until it did have the Army it wanted.

-Ruth Anne Petrak,
Des Moines.
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