Lawmakers Chide Rumsfeld for Auto-Signed Sympathy Letters

[melnjones]

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=615&e=3&u=/nm/20041219/pl_nm/defense_rumsfeld_letters_dc


By Jackie Frank

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld did not personally sign his name on letters of condolence to families of troops killed in Iraq (news - web sites) but instead had it done by a machine, an action lawmakers said on Sunday showed insensitivity and was inappropriate for leadership during war.

Rumsfeld acknowledged that he had not signed the letters to family members of more than 1,000 U.S. troops killed in action and in a statement said he would now sign them in his own hand. "This issue of the secretary of Defense not personally signing the letters is just astounding to me and it does reflect how out of touch they are and how dismissive they are," Republican Sen. Chuck Hagel (news, bio, voting record) said on CBS's "Face the Nation."

[flamingyouth]

1. This is just sick

I keep thinking I can't get much angrier about what's going on in Iraq, then I read something like this and find my capacity for anger grows and grows. :grr:

[xxqqqzme]

2. agree -at this rate

I'll stroke out B4 the monkey turd leaves office - but then I'm Xpecting him 2 crown himself. I do not think yellow rogue will leave office willingly. The powers that R have a great little puppet; no sense screwing around w/ the current set-up.