Nothing gets things done like bad press
Heh:
Senior Army officials told a wire service reporter Wednesday that within 24 hours of a soldier’s complaint to Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld about shortages of vehicle armor in Iraq, protective armor had been installed on every vehicle in the soldier’s unit.
December 17th, 2004 at 12:22 pm
The squeaky wheel, and all that…
December 18th, 2004 at 3:57 pm
The problem has already been resolved, no one had been ordered into battle in an unarmed humvee, and Rumsfeld’s complete answer bore no resemblance to the butcher-edited cites in the papers.
This was so transparently wrong that right means nothing any more.
I guess I will go discover some more ballots somewhere.