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12/27/2004 Archived Entry: "The unfair and untrue condemnation of Don Rumsfeld"

Posted by steve @ 05:57 PM EST [Link]

NO, LET'S KEEP TALKING ABOUT HIS AUTOPEN: Tim Chavez had an interesting story run in yesterday's The Tennessean about the side of Donald Rumsfeld that the media never reports on. Why? Because Rumsfeld isn't interested in this kind of publicity.

The Tennessee man spoke of a defense secretary, on an early May day, who came to visit the wounded at Bethesda Naval Hospital — without any press coverage.

And he remembers a defense secretary and his wife who gave him 20 minutes to listen, talk and cry about the heroics and loss of his son, Brent.

"He’s not the insensitive ogre he’s made out to be," Morel said. " I just don’t think it is right that he is getting pounded. I found him to be generally a person, someone who showed genuine concern, a patriot.

"There are things they were ill-prepared for in the aftermath of the war. But he understood Brent had lost his life and saved the lives of several others. He was sorry. I could see the man was visibly upset. He was crying, too."

Read on.