The New York Times' Eric Schmitt reports in a story entitled "Troops' Queries Leave Rumsfeld on the Defensive":

Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld came here Wednesday to lead a morale-lifting town hall discussion with Iraq-bound troops. Instead, he found himself on the defensive, fielding pointed questions from soldiers complaining about aging vehicles that lacked armor for protection against roadside bombs.

Mr. Rumsfeld, seemingly caught off guard by the sharp questioning, responded that the military was producing extra armor for Humvees and trucks as fast as possible, but that the soldiers would have to cope with equipment shortages. "You go to war with the Army you have, not the Army you might want or wish to have at a later time," he said.

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He said adding more armor to trucks and battle equipment did not make them impervious to enemy attack. "You can have all the armor in the world on a tank and a tank can be blown up," he said. "And you can have an up-armored Humvee and it can be blown up."

Nice. We don't need more body armor because our men in tanks will probably be blown up either way?

On another note, why is it that the soldiers are the first people to ask anyone in this administration a tough question in a few years? Shouldn't the media at least pretend to do their job once in a while?