Secretary Rumsfeld's townhall meeting yesterday with troops in Iraq has been portrayed by the scandal-hungry media as a virtual mutiny, and his comments unfeeling.

A radio report monitored by the Gnomon this morning quoted Mr. Rumsfeld as responding to a soldier's plea for Humvee armor with this Scrooge-like statement:

"You go to war with the armor you have, not the armor you might want or wish to have."

Here's a more accurate AP report (despite the red-meat headline).


UPDATE: It turns out the soldier's question was planted by an imbedded reporter. Not that that makes it any less valid a question... it just makes it less of a mutiny.