George Bush is trying to soothe the damage uncovered by the recent Q&A with Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld by troops in Kuwait. The major damage is that this is yet another episode (luckily after the election) of how the Bush Administration has messed up again.
After Rumsfeld was bombarded with criticism from U.S. soldiers based in Kuwait, Rumsfeld promised more would be done to protect military forces. Bush U.S. troop concerns about inadequate equipment for Iraq combat are being addressed
As Reuters reported the latest complaints put the administration further on the defensive. Bush had rejected charges from Democratic challenger Sen. John Kerry in the campaign for last month's election that military forces in Iraq did not have sufficient protection.
Of course the Bushies tried to say Kerry voted against body armor by pointing out that Kerry voted against the $87 billion defense bill covering Iraq after seeing his admonition making the rich pay for the war defeated. So was the vote against armor or the payment scheme? The following is what Kerry said:
When say I voted for it, I was willing to vote for the $87 billion providing we paid for it! Providing we asked Americans to sacrifice, all of us together. So Joe Biden and I...brought an amendment to say, Hey America—rather than have a $690 billion tax cut for everybody over the next ten years who are earning over $200,000, why don’t we take just $600 billion, and that way we pay for the war right up front and not add it to the deficit. Guess what? George Bush said no. The Republicans said no.
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