10.16.2004

What Bush and Rumsfeld Have Pushed the Troops to Do

From CNN:

The U.S. military said it is investigating whether members of a reservist unit in Iraq broke military code when they failed to follow orders to take part in a dangerous refueling mission. The military said all 19 members of the Army's 343rd Quartermaster Company were told to report to duty Wednesday to deliver fuel from Tallil, Iraq, to Taji, an area just north of Baghdad. But some soldiers refused to take part in the mission.
When I heard this tonight, I immediately though that this is probably NOT a rare occurrence. There have been numerous cases of Rumsfeld's plan leaving troops out there with no bullets in the middle of a battle. Remember this on November 2.