A few of my liberal friends seem to have missed this little tidbit about the questions from the National Guardsman of Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld.  I suppose there are some who might not have a problem with this but I do. 

Transcript of reporter's e-mail to newspaper staff

The following is the text of an e-mail sent by Chattanooga Times Free Press military reporter Lee Pitts, who is embedded with the 278th Regimental Combat Team in southwest Asia, to other staffers at the Times Free Press. The text of this e-mail appeared yesterday on Web sites including that of the Poynter Institute for Media Studies in St. Petersburg, Fla. Times Free Press editor Tom Griscom confirmed to The Tennessean the accuracy of the Poynter.org transcript. A handful of minor typographical errors have been remedied here for ease of reading.

Subject: RE: Way to go

I just had one of my best days as a journalist today. As luck would have it, our journey North was delayed just long enough see I could attend a visit today here by Defense Secretary Rumsfeld. I was told yesterday that only soldiers could ask questions so I brought two of them along with me as my escorts. Before hand we worked on questions to ask Rumsfeld about the appalling lack of armor their vehicles going into combat have. While waiting for the VIP, I went and found the [sergeant] in charge of the microphone for the question and answer session and made sure he knew to get my guys out of the crowd.

So during the Q&A session, one of my guys was the second person called on. When he asked Rumsfeld why after two years here soldiers are still having to dig through trash bins to find rusted scrap metal and cracked ballistic windows for their Humvees, the place erupted in cheers so loud that Rumsfeld had to ask the guy to repeat his question. Then Rumsfeld answered something about it being ''not a lack of desire or money but a logistics/physics problem.'' He said he recently saw about 8 of the special up-armored Humvees guarding Washington, D.C., and he promised that they would no longer be used for that and that he would send them over here. Then he asked a three-star general standing behind him, the commander of all ground forces here, to also answer the question. The general said it was a problem he is working on.

The great part was that after the event was over the throng of national media following Rumsfeld