Dec. 8: Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld addresses soldiers at Camp Buehring, Kuwait.
CAMP BUEHRING, Kuwait — Disgrunted U.S. soldiers complained to Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld (search) on Wednesday about the lack of armor for their vehicles and long deployments, drawing a blunt retort from the Pentagon chief.
"You go to war with the Army you have," he said in a rare public airing of rank-and-file concerns among the troops.
In his prepared remarks earlier, Rumsfeld had urged the troops — mostly National Guard and Reserve soldiers — to discount critics of the war in Iraq (search) and to help "win the test of wills" with the insurgents.
Some of soldiers, however, had criticisms of their own — not of the war itself but of how it is being fought.
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