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09-12-04, 06:55 AM | #1 |
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Rumsfeld Encounters Friendly Fire
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationwo...=la-home-world
WASHINGTON — Anxious troops awaiting deployment to Iraq peppered Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld with questions Wednesday during his brief visit to their camp in the Kuwaiti desert, demanding to know why U.S. forces were still being sent with insufficient protection against deadly insurgents. [i]"Our vehicles are not armored. We're digging pieces of rusted scrap metal and compromised ballistic glass … to put on our vehicles to take into combat," said one Iraq-bound soldier, whom Associated Press identified as Spc. Thomas Wilson of the Tennessee National Guard. "As you know, you go to war with the army you have," Rumsfeld said. "They're not the army you might want or wish to have at a later time Rumsfeld seems to has a nonchalant attitude about the concerns these soldiers bring up. Not too reassuring from the #2 guy in charge of the war. The least our leaders can do when they send those soldiers to war is give them the tools to do their job instead of running like a mom & pop operation. Last edited by zombywoof : 09-12-04 at 07:49 AM. |
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Gah, I hate it when politicians joke about the fact that they bullshit or have to make up excuses. I hate it even more when people go along with it.
RUMSFELD: "Hell, I'm an old man, and it's early in the morning, I'm just gathering my thoughts here..." AUDIENCE: "Then get out of office you senile fuck..." It's always the same old story. When journalists and media types ask 'difficult' questions, there's always a get-out clause or a way of wiggling out of a straight answer. When a stoic member of the public (or better yet, a steely-eyed, pissed-off soldier) asks the same question in a forthright and straightforward manner, the politician can't answer... stalling for time, telling jokes. Christ, he makes Clinton look appealing.
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The military is always getting strapped over the barrel when it comes to adequete supplies and up to date technology. When I was in the Army, they trained us on newer radio encryption equipment, which I never saw again during my enlistment. Bush is a criminal for sending kids to their deaths without properly equipping them to deal with the enemy. Somebody ought' to frag his ass! |
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Inciting assassination attempts now.
Hope the FBI doesn't know that YOU KEEP A DERRINGER HIDDEN IN YOUR RECTUM it's way up there; keep going |
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Mostly it's their heads.
It's pretty obvious really. Good thing you got that dead chia-pet out now; more room for yours. |
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you go to war with the army you have when you don't have the luxury of choosing the time, or the means, or the manner of conflict. in fact, Rumsfeld, Bush and company had all the time in the world to get it right. they just didn't. |
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"The Fog of War"
god forbid I defend 'Rummy or any of the war~mongers..........
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as long as the public (or 51%, anyway) keep believing The Big Lie (they're fighting for our freedom), we deserve whatever we get in Iraq. |
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I think it does, at the end of their statement they should also mention this War in Iraq has the lowest casualty rate of any war in American history. they get that wrong too?
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It is also fact that for the first time in American history more non combat troops have accounted for nearly half the casualties in Iraq. In the past 90 percent of the casualties were combat troops, mostly infantry. So why is that? Well it could be because infantry are better trained and equipped, American infantry do their work very well, killing more of the enemy and taking fewer casualties. Also conress in the 1990’s was under pressure to give more opportunities in the army for women. Men and women begin doing their basic training together. One of the important aspects of Basic training is to se who could handle the stress and if need be get them out of the army. Troops who break down in the chaos of combat get themselves, and others, killed.
The Military knew there would be trouble because basic training has been watered down so women can handle it. Their solution was to send recruits who signed up for combat jobs to goto special all male basic training which is old school to make sure only people who could handle the stress of combat went on to become infantry. The mixed basic training is composed of non combat troops. a quote Quote:
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