Yahoo! News: "U.S. Troops Fire Complaints at Rumsfeld"

Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld came under friendly fire Wednesday from troops who took up his invitation to ask tough questions about Iraq.

Hundreds of soldiers applauded a comrade who complained to Rumsfeld that U.S. troops were being forced to dig up scrap metal to protect their vehicles in Iraq because of a shortage of armored transport.

'Why do we soldiers have to dig through local landfills for pieces of scrap metal and compromised ballistic glass to armor our vehicles ... (scrap) that has already been shot up, dropped, busted, picking the best out of this scrap to put on our vehicles to take into combat?, the soldier said.

'We do not have proper armorment for our vehicles to carry us north (into Iraq).'

Good question! All the bazillions of dollars we're spending on Rummy's half-baked excursion into Iraq, and our soldiers are dying by the hundreds just the same, because somehow they don't even have appropriate armor on their equipment?

Rummy, there's a reason your boss avoids real Q&A sessions, and only does them when the audience is a room full of hand-picked GOP partisans. It's because when you open to the floor to honest questions, you're going to be exposed to the real world outside of the Bush-Bubble you've been living in, and that's bound to be unpleasant, now, isn't it?