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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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09-12-04, 02:39 PM | #5 |
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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! |
09-12-04, 04:32 PM | #6 |
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Inciting assassination attempts now.
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14-12-04, 06:22 AM | #7 |
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plausible deniability
Both Rumsfeld and jcmd have demonstrated the principle of plausible deniability very effectively, I think.
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Bush didn't make the war plan for Iraq. Neither did Cheny or Rumsfield. Try to find the right people to blame if your intense hatred can be put aside long enough. Nobody wants to mention how it was a civilian reporter that gave the question/comment about scrounging scrapyards to a national guardsman to ask Rumsfield. It apparently wasn't a big enough problem for them to bother without prompting. |
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14-12-04, 05:24 PM | #10 |
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Who's we? And who's "these people"? I'd tell you who put together the war plan but it wouldn't make any difference in your hate filled brain. Ignore the facts and just gush out propaganda; the pathetic balm of a very sore loser.
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