On Wednesday in Kuwait, Spc. Thomas Wilson of the Tennessee Army National Guard posed this zinger to the Secretary of Defense:

“Why do we soldiers have to dig through local landfills for pieces of scrap metal and compromised ballistic glass to up-armor our vehicles?“

To which the ever reassuring Rumsfeld replied: “You go to war with the Army you have, not the Army you might want or wish to have . . . . You can have all the armor in the world on a tank and a tank can be blown up.“

Today in India, the Secretary Don had this to say to reporters when he was asked about Spc. Wilson:

"I don't know what the facts are but somebody's certainly going to sit down with him and find out what he knows that they may not know, and make sure he knows what they know that he may not know, and that's a good thing.“

Translation: Somebody better silence that son of a bitch.

UPDATE: 9:34 PM: That damned liberal media.  There's one way to pierce the bubble.  Unfortunately, now the focus in the media will be on the ethics of reporters, rather than the plight of our soldiers.