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The fact that this line of questioning was cheered on by several thousand active service people during wartime, only miles from the battleground, does not speak well regarding the state of military morale. Some of these troops though seem to be realizing things they should have thought about before they volunteered for service: that it's very well possible they could die in battle, that if necessary the generals will sacrifice their lives as a diversion even (I'm not saying this is being done, but it is possible), that war is fundamentally an unsafe venture.
I'm not sure how I might react to Rumsfeld essentially saying "shut up and die for oil pussies" I'm fairly sure I would start thinking about desertion. Then again I'm not subject to the constant indoctrination and brain washing that our troops in the field receive daily.
National Guard people are intelligent though, most join to put themselves through college. Many of them know that the reason there's no funding for properly armored vehicles is that the Dept. of Defense is allowing Halliburton and other military contractors to loot our national treasury. They know that money went to funding congressional pet projects like the V-22 Osprey flying deathtrap, don't see many of those in active service do we?
In world war two there was never this persistant whining from our troops about being ill-equipped (Sherman tanks v. Panzers, wool pants for the African theater, etc.) although they certainly were in several instances. Why do you think this is? We're seeing the fallout in the form of low troop morale for the disingenuous reasoning and bald-faced lies that our President and others used as rationale for the Iraq war.
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