wait a minute

During the campaign, Dubya found it loads of fun to pick on Kerry for having voted against a spending bill that would have equipped the troops in Iraq. As we all know, the troops still are lacking much of what they need, including full-strength armor and the like.

Well, Rumsfeld is over there right now talking with the troops. When one of them asked him about this, this is what Rumsfeld had to say:

"As you know, you go to war with the army you have, not the army you might want or wish to have at a later time...

"I've talked a great deal about this with a team of people who have been working hard at the Pentagon... if you think about it, you can have all the armor in the world on a tank and it can blow up...

"The goal we have is to have as many of those vehicles as is humanly possible with the appropriate level of armor appropriate for the troops." from Yahoo! News

In other words, what he's saying is, "Sorry son, but you can't always get what you want. Even if you did, you might be killed anyway. Besides, we're still trying to prep for a war that we started a year and a half ago."

Brilliant. Bloody brilliant.