This One Only Took a Full Month to Surface

Last month, we told you that Col. David Hackworth revealed that Donald Rumsfeld was rubber-stamping his signature on death notices to KIA families. And yet again, the wacky liberal media sits on the story until everyone's too busy to notice. Like today.

Signature on death letters fuels Rumsfeld criticism
Hagel: Signing letters to next of kin is 'least we could expect'

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld faced renewed criticism Sunday from lawmakers, including one prominent Republican, after he said he has not personally signed letters sent to family members of troops killed in action.

Rumsfeld made the acknowledgment in a statement to military newspaper Stars and Stripes, saying that he would begin signing such letters.

Stars and Stripes had reported that Rumsfeld's letters carried a mechanical reproduction of his signature, which angered some military families.

Sen. Chuck Hagel, a leading GOP critic of Rumsfeld, called the news about the letters "astounding," and noted that President Bush signs each of his letters to military families.

"I think it's very reflective of how out of touch this crowd is," the Nebraskan said on CBS' "Face the Nation." "My goodness, that's the least that we could expect of the secretary of defense."

But Bush chief of staff Andrew Card said Rumsfeld enjoys the president's confidence, and Sen. John Cornyn of Texas said Rumsfeld's dismissal would be "a gift to the jihadists and the insurgents" in Iraq.

Comments

[Mark Richards]

I'd spit on the letter

and then send it back.