Seems Rummy is subject to pressure after all.
Defense secretary will face Senate panel over Iraq policies
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld late Wednesday reversed a decision to skip a public hearing on Capitol Hill and said he will testify at a session on the Iraq war.
The move came after hours of criticism and pressure from Senate Democrats who urged him to come before the Senate Armed Services Committee on Thursday to answer questions about the administration's Iraq policies.
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I wonder if they'll question him about this:
Rumsfeld also offered an explanation for why as many as two-thirds of the Army's brigades and many National Guard units are rated not ready for combat. He said the Pentagon is wrestling with standards that would best describe the condition of the units. And he noted that highly experienced units coming home from Iraq leave a lot of equipment behind and as a result are considered not combat ready.
"The Army today is vastly better than it was two, four, six or eight years ago," he said. "It has much more equipment, much better equipment, and it's better trained and more experienced."
See that bolded part? I wonder if this is the same type of "struggle" they had when they were redefining torture. Because you know damn well his description in the following paragraph isn't anywhere close to adequately describing the real state of our military.