Hijacking the Penatgon's ID Card Briefing

On Wednesday, David Chu, the undersecretary of defense for personnel and readiness, and Mary Dixon, director of the Defense Manpower Data Center, appeared in the Pentagon briefing room to talk about the department's effort to develop and implement new employee access cards under a presidential directive. It's a huge, multifaceted program that involves millions of taxpayer dollars and complex security issues. So of course the reporters present had a whole bunch of questions for the Pentagon's personnel chief on how it's being implemented, right? Well, sort of. There were a couple such questions, but then the media folks went straight to the really pressing news of the day, with the following consecutive questions:

Dr. Chu, as head of personal readiness, I'd like to get your views on what you think of Senator Kerry's comments about American personnel -- military personnel in Iraq being uneducated.

Are you at all concerned that the senator's comments will have any effect on recruiting or on morale, anything like that, of the U.S. --

Have you heard -- have you received any feedback from people within the military about these comments, what they perceive them to be? Do they feel insulted? Has any of that come to your level?