Posted on 10/14/2003 6:08:44 AM PDT by BigWaveBetty
It must be Donald Rumsfeld's turn to be whipping boy this month with talk of his rollercoaster ride taking a downward turn and in-fighting is losing Iraq and could cost Rumsfeld his job. Bullbleep I say!
I for one think America should be eternally grateful that Donald Rumsfeld is our Secretary of Defense. He works incredibly hard for us at a time when most Americans his age are enjoying retirement.
Donald H. Rumsfeld was sworn in as the 21st Secretary of Defense on January 20, 2001. Before assuming his present post, the former Navy pilot had also served as the 13th Secretary of Defense, White House Chief of Staff, U.S. Ambassador to NATO, U.S. Congressman and chief executive officer of two Fortune 500 companies.
Secretary Rumsfeld is responsible for directing the actions of the Defense Department in response to the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001. The war is being waged against a backdrop of major change within the Department of Defense. The department has developed a new defense strategy and replaced the old model for sizing forces with a newer approach more relevant to the 21st century. Secretary Rumsfeld proposed and the President approved a significant reorganization of the worldwide command structure, known as the Unified Command Plan, that resulted in the establishment of the U.S. Northern Command and the U.S. Strategic Command, the latter charged with the responsibilities formerly held by the Strategic and Space Commands which were disestablished.
The Department also has refocused its space capabilities and fashioned a new concept of strategic deterrence that increases security while reducing strategic nuclear weapons. To help strengthen the deterrent, the missile defense research and testing program has been reorganized and revitalized, free of the restraints of the ABM treaty.
Mr. Rumsfeld attended Princeton University on academic and NROTC scholarships (A.B., 1954) and served in the U.S. Navy (1954-57) as an aviator and flight instructor. In 1957, he transferred to the Ready Reserve and continued his Naval service in flying and administrative assignments as a drilling reservist until 1975. He transferred to the Standby Reserve when he became Secretary of Defense in 1975 and to the Retired Reserve with the rank of Captain in 1989.
In 1957, he came to Washington, DC to serve as Administrative Assistant to a Congressman. After a stint with an investment banking firm, he was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives from Illinois in 1962, at the age of 30, and was re-elected in 1964, 1966, and 1968.
Mr. Rumsfeld resigned from Congress in 1969 during his fourth term to join the President's Cabinet. From 1969 to 1970, he served as Director of the Office of Economic Opportunity and Assistant to the President. From 1971 to 1972, he was Counsellor to the President and Director of the Economic Stabilization Program. In 1973, he left Washington, DC, to serve as U.S. Ambassador to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) in Brussels, Belgium (1973-1974).
In August 1974, he was called back to Washington, DC, to serve as Chairman of the transition to the Presidency of Gerald R. Ford. He then became Chief of Staff of the White House and a member of the President's Cabinet (1974-1975). He served as the 13th U.S. Secretary of Defense, the youngest in the country's history (1975-1977).
From 1977 to 1985 he served as Chief Executive Officer, President, and then Chairman of G.D. Searle & Co., a worldwide pharmaceutical company. The successful turnaround there earned him awards as the Outstanding Chief Executive Officer in the Pharmaceutical Industry from the Wall Street Transcript (1980) and Financial World (1981). From 1985 to 1990 he was in private business.
Mr. Rumsfeld served as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of General Instrument Corporation from 1990 to 1993. General Instrument Corporation was a leader in broadband transmission, distribution, and access control technologies. Until being sworn in as the 21st Secretary of Defense, Mr. Rumsfeld served as Chairman of the Board of Gilead Sciences, Inc., a pharmaceutical company.
Before returning for his second tour as Secretary of Defense, Mr. Rumsfeld chaired the bipartisan U.S. Ballistic Missile Threat Commission, in 1998, and the U.S. Commission to Assess National Security Space Management and Organization, in 2000.
During his business career, Mr. Rumsfeld continued his public service in a variety of Federal posts, including:
Member of the President's General Advisory Committee on Arms Control (1982 - 1986);
Special Presidential Envoy on the Law of the Sea Treaty (1982 - 1983);
Senior Advisor to the President's Panel on Strategic Systems (1983 - 1984);
Member of the U.S. Joint Advisory Commission on U.S./Japan Relations (1983 - 1984);
Special Presidential Envoy to the Middle East (1983 - 1984);
Member of the National Commission on Public Service (1987 - 1990);
Member of the National Economic Commission (1988 - 1989);
Member of the Board of Visitors of the National Defense University (1988 - 1992);
Member of the Commission on U.S./Japan Relations (1989 - 1991); and
Member of the U.S. Trade Deficit Review Commission (1999 - 2000).
While in the private sector, Mr. Rumsfeld's civic activities included service as a member of the National Academy of Public Administration and a member of the boards of trustees of the Gerald R. Ford Foundation, the Hoover Institution at Stanford University, and the National Park Foundation, and as Chairman of the Eisenhower Exchange Fellowships, Inc.
In 1977, Mr. Rumsfeld was awarded the nation's highest civilian award, the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
It's show your love for Rummy day!
It's show your love for Rummy day!
Slow go today...
Cheers everyone.
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Where have I been?? Well..............right before hurricane Isabel hit, we had an electrican come out and do some work for us to include hooking up our genorator.
To make a long story short, we haven't have inter net since September 25th. Someone cut thru the Dish cables. The Dish Network guys were out here yesterday and finally traced the problem back to cut cables.
So here I am!!!!! I'm fine and in good health, with a computer again, YEAH!!!!!!!
Get a load of this wack-o....
We need, at just this time, a military personage as president, one who is more in the mode of Dwight Eisenhower than of Ulysses Grant. In Wesley Clark, we have a four-star general and former NATO commander who is a diplomatic unifier, an authentic hero, wise and compassionate. That Gen. Clark saved tens of thousands of Muslim lives in Bosnia and Kosovo is irrefutable, despite current deprecations by worried supporters of the president. They are accurate only in their anxieties. Gen. Clark is highly electable for 2004; the other Democratic candidates are not. Even should our economy worsen considerably by a year hence, Howard Dean and John Kerry cannot win, unless the terrorists again bring down American temples as vital as the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. Most of the electorate will vote for the incumbent, because of their national security concerns.
Our most vital interest is to persuade as much of Islam as possible not to join in what the Muslim fundamentalists consider to be a Counter-Crusade. Who is more qualified than Gen. Clark to render such persuasion plausible? His leadership of international forces is Bosnia and Kosovo was precisely calibrated, and prevented Serb paramilitaries from even more dreadful slaughters of Muslim innocents than those already performed as "ethnic cleansings."
In recent interviews, Gen. Clark has reminded us that our allies in Europe are our permanent friends, however divergent our interests may become at particular times. Our current president has appealed to our allies for help in our Iraqi quandary, but few will give him either troops or money. Gen. Clark is highly likely to reconcile our friends, even as he will not augment our enemies.
I am not suggesting that all our future presidents must be generals. Yet the time and the person have come together in Gen. Clark. There is potential greatness in him: realism and hope intricately fuse in his character. As a lifelong Democrat speaking to other Democrats, I urge his nomination. To Republicans and independents, I put the question: Weigh Gen. Clark's qualifications against President Bush's performance, and who seems likelier to lead us effectively in the years of trouble ahead of us?
Mr. Bloom is Sterling Professor of Humanities at Yale. The complete delirium
If I ever lose my mind and send my son to Yale, please smack me....
The couple's relationship looked like it suffered a chill on Friday night at the PM Lounge on Gansevoort St. "They seemed very distant," a witness tells us. "They barely spoke. He kept going outside, I guess to smoke."
Around 4 a.m., after sharing a bottle of vodka with friends, Klaus sent Clinton on her way in a taxi.
He and a few of his buddies proceeded up Ninth Ave.: "He was kicking things along the street, like he was angry" says our spy. "He said, 'I love her, but I hate her.' One of his friends said, 'No, man, you love her.'"
Last month, anyway, it looked like Klaus loved her. The floppy-haired 24-year-old Rhodes Scholar even flew to her hometown of Little Rock, Ark., where the the pair dined with her grandma, Dorothy Rodham, at the Faded Rose restaurant.
After dinner, Klaus was the picture of courtliness, retrieving Rodham's sedan and picking her up at the door.
But, according to U.S. News & World Report, the son of exercise equipment mogul Robin Klaus let Chelsea pay the bill. Hey, she's the one pulling down a six-figure consulting salary at McKinsey & Co. NYDailynews
Listen to your gut Ian, run away! Run away quickly!
WHAT????? I thought YOU put yourself thru this test.
Baloney. It's more accurate to say Gen. Weasel killed hundreds of innocent civilian Orthodox Christian Serbs (apparently I missed the part where Muslim lives were more valuable than Christians), including women and children, all while he was attempting to start WWIII with the Russians.
As for Chels & Ian - oh my gosh, what's up with his so-called friends? As I noted on another thread, someone needs to tell him, "DUDE! Wake up! She's going to look just like her mother in just a few years, and there's not a doorway in NYC wide enough for the two of you!"
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