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Originally Posted by brianna
i have no idea -- but we are talking about a very different situation from things like WWI and WWII. the death toll in those wars was so high that it would not have been possible for one person to sign all of the letters -- but in a war with just over 1000 causalities over the course of a year and a half it *IS* possible for Rumsfeld to sign all of the letters. I actually agree that it doesn't matter if he does but given the current circumstances (an unpopular war of choice that the SECDEF did not properly plan for as well as his cavalier attitude towards soldiers requesting proper equipment) i can hardly blame people for wishing for ANY sign that Rumsfeld felt at all responsible for the causalities in this war -- his signature on these letters would have been a small unimportant gesture but not doing it stands as further indication of his irresponsible nature.
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Well, let's find out if Les Aspin signed all the letters for the people who got killed in Mogadishu. I'd ask about Haiti and Kosovo too, but I have no idea how many we've lost there, since the networks don't give us a daily update on them. Unlike what they do with a Republican president.
By the way, I heard on the news today that at the time Rumsfeld was asked the question, of 830 vehicles over there, 800 had been up-armored. Don't know what specific kind of vehicle. Also, 20 of the remaining 30 were in the process of being up-armored.
Can anybody provide details on this, or refute it?