It seems in keeping with Donald Rumsfeld’s tenure as defense secretary that he did not use the words “Iraq” or “war” in his resignation letter, finally obtained this week by the Associated Press. The reality of the mess Rumsfeld helped start never seemed to register on him. More interesting is the letter’s date, a day before the Nov. 7, 2006, election. Ousted congressional Republicans may find little comfort in White House spokeswoman Dana Perino’s statement that the president delayed the announcement a day to avoid “the appearance of trying to make this a political decision.”
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Who cares. He’s gone. Much ado about nothing.
No littlejohn,
The democrats still have not gotten their chance to burn him at the stake when they are done with their witch trials.
Never did care for Rummy. He had three ways of doing things – The Right Way, The Wrong Way and Rumsfeld’s Way.
Not listening to his commanders in the field and developing an autocracy in the Pentagon is what got him a trouble.
Other than that, he’s a decent guy with a lot of good ideas and philosophies.
Smart guy; dumb Secretary of Defense, previously worked for dumb guy, dumb CIC.
“littlejohn” –
Rumsfeld is the guy who singlehandedly undermined the US military.
“You go to war with the army you have,” he said. As if Iraq was *their* fault.
As we learned on that “Mission Accomplished” aircraft carrier, the Army (not the Navy, so much… but an aircraft carrier made for sexier television), succeeded in its mission of being an Army. Then Rumsfeld and Cheney and Shrub turned them into cops patroling local neighborhoods and placed them in the middle of a civil war.
Your “much ado about nothing” comment reveals your callous attitude to the men and women of the armed forces who’ve been forced to sacrifice their lives, their bodies, their minds, and their families to a mission Rumsfeld sent them into ill-equipped, undertrained, disrespected and — from the Commander in Chief on down — misled.
“Much ado about *nothing*”?!
LTP_
Watch your mouth, son. Unless you know what the hell you are talking about, I wouldn’t open my mouth if I were you.
My “much ado about nothing” had to do with the topic of this thread–Rumsfields resignation letter. You gives a damn on what it didn;t or didn;t say. He’s gone. Thank GOd. His “reign” as Secretary of Defense was not the TOPIC OF THE GODDAMN THREAD!
So, Rummy, you caused the deaths of some of America’s finest and you run out the door as Bush’s house is falling down and you don’t have the decency to admit your war in Iraq was wrong. War criminal.
As a democrat, I heartily agree with Littlejohn–this is just stupid. He sucked, we all know it, nothing to see here.
Rumsfailed.
His name will live in infamy.
Well-earned infamy.
His dream of world Empire is anathama to every American value patriots cherish.
The Wichita Chamber of Commerce is bringing him to town to talk at their big schmooze-fest.
Republicans. They have no shame.
What might be a more interesting discussion topic would be Dana Perino’s ham-fisted attempt to explain that the long-anticipated “Petraeus report” in September is actually going to be written by the WHITE HOUSE.http://news.aol.com/elections-blog/2007/08/15/when-the-petraeus-report-isnt/
Wonder what it will say? Will it explain their attempts to have us believe the report was actually written by an actual qualified participant as opposed to Dick, Bob, and Condi? Maybe they can bring Rummy back to help give it that extra bit of squint and obfuscation he was always so good at…
Hey, Cap, when is that? We should get some protesters together.
Not sure of the date, Del. But if he comes to town, you can bet a welcoming committee will be in attendance.
In fact, this is really bigger than a protest.
Pressure should be brought to bear on the Chamber to cancel his appearance.
Cap’n,Anybody got a load of overripe tomatoes?
Del–
Click on my nicname and you’ll see my TypeKey account info.
There’s a link by which you can e-mail me.
I’m part of a couple of organizations you might be interested in, if you’re not active already.
Gotta go right now but will be back later.
Bring the tomatoes. I’ll be standing there with a very large American Flag covering the view.
If you want to hit Rummy, you’ll have to hit the flag as well. :)
Jed–
Hehe, good one.
But they won’t let us near him. The Bushies are total cowards when it comes to meeting with American citizens that disagree with them.
I think it started on that Ascension Day in January 2001 when King George took the throne and his entourage was booed, protested, and egged by DC residents who knew a con-game when they saw it.
BushCo makes sure never to speak to any but hand-picked staunch backers . . .
Kansas won’t be anywhere in the area because the poor, crippled man can’t walk without canes etc.
Remember?
Yeah, I guess not . . .
I can walk and stand Capn, just not for very long or very fast.
But leave it to the Capn to mock the disabled and handicapped.
Liberals can do that and get away with it because everyone besides them lies.
Right Capn?
I just wondered how you were going to unfurl a huge flag with your putative disability.
What I’m mocking is that nothing you say can be believed.
Kansas, how can you possibly defend that man?No matter what one thinks of the war, you have to be aware of Rumsfeld’s mismanagement of it…
Don’t you?
Hopefully we Democrats will win the White House and greatly expand our razor thin majority in the House and the Senate. And the first thing that President_____ should do is find the meannest and most agressive and talented Special Prosecutor we can find to after this bunch. All of them! Bush, Cheney, Rumsfield, Rice and the rest of them and bring them all up on charges. Too bad we cannot hang them at high noon on the Mall in DC but a jail cell will be enough.
“The Wichita Chamber of Commerce is bringing him to town to talk at their big schmooze-fest.
Republicans. They have no shame.”
If they do that then people need to turn out by the THOUSANDS to let that son of a bitch know he has NO place in Kansas! Run his ass outta town and let the corporate class know that if they ever try to bring somebody else like that to Kansas to expect the same! Liberals need to get out and do what we did best in the 1960s and RAISE HELL! We seem to have lost our will. I am ready to walk. If Rummy comes anywhere near Kansas, people need to act the same way at the door of the banquet hall that Operation Rescue did at the door of Tiller’s clinic. Make the cops drag you off by the hundreds! Make such a ruckus that it shuts downtown Wichita down!
“No littlejohn,
The democrats still have not gotten their chance to burn him at the stake when they are done with their witch trials.”
We have not even STARTED yet!
“Kansas won’t be anywhere in the area because the poor, crippled man can’t walk without canes etc.
Remember?
Yeah, I guess not . . . ”
As a good liberal I will try not to make fun of crippled Republicans the same way they did Michael J Fox!
Here’s some of what Rumsfailed left behind–
And this is just what we know about.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/bloomberg/20070816/pl_bloomberg/a_piz20xqxeu
Aug. 16 (Bloomberg) — A small South Carolina parts supplier collected about $20.5 million over six years from the Pentagon for fraudulent shipping costs, including $998,798 for sending two 19-cent washers to an Army base in Texas, U.S. officials said.
The company also billed and was paid $455,009 to ship three machine screws costing $1.31 each to Marines in Habbaniyah, Iraq, and $293,451 to ship an 89-cent split washer to Patrick Air Force Base in Cape Canaveral, Florida, Pentagon records show.
The owners of C&D Distributors in Lexington, South Carolina — twin sisters — exploited a flaw in an automated Defense Department purchasing system: bills for shipping to combat areas or U.S. bases that were labeled “priority” were usually paid automatically, said Cynthia Stroot, a Pentagon investigator.
C&D and two of its officials were barred in December from receiving federal contracts. Today, a federal judge in Columbia, South Carolina, accepted the guilty plea of the company and one sister, Charlene Corley, to one count of conspiracy to commit wire fraud and one count of conspiracy to launder money, Assistant U.S. Attorney Kevin McDonald said.
If Bush had announced Rumsfeld’s departure the day before the 2006 election, I think it is certain the Republicans would have held the house. A huge political blunder.
BTW, the lack of class of the leftist haters is striking in this thread. Nothing new though.
Would have held the SENATE
hate to admit it, but we agree on the lack of class thing herein, outlander.
Thank you for your unbiased honesty delsol. We don’t see enough of it here. I’m not very good at it myself. You do have class!
Outlander–
F U!
Damn, he’s right, no class.
No class at all.
“But leave it to the Capn to mock the disabled and handicapped.”
You don’t actually label yourself as “handicapped” do you? – because if you do, that would sow doubt in my mind about your narrative.
Do you know where that term comes from? – people using their hands and hats (caps) to beg. This term has been abandoned by disabled people for some time now.
Steven–
I get the strong supicion that RepubliKhansas is about as disabled as he is black or Turkish.
The only thing handicapped about RepubliKhansas is his ability to tell the truth.
I think I tend to agree with you CapN…. Check your email, too, ok??
Who cares?
That must answer your question. It made zero difference. It’s over.
The Liberal Gossip and Sewing Circle commences.