Posted on 12/20/2004 12:47:54 PM PST by NormsRevenge
President George W. Bush (news - web sites) defended growing criticism of his embattled Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, during a years-end press conference at the Eisenhower Executive Office Building in the White House complex, in Washington, Monday, Dec. 20, 2004. Bush declared of Rumsfeld, I know Secretary Rumsfelds heartHes a good, decent man. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
US President George W. Bush (news - web sites) (L) with US Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld at Bush's Crawford, Texas ranch. Bush admitted that Iraqi forces were not ready to replace US-led troops and warned that Iraqi elections set for January 30 would not spell the end of deadly violence there.(AFP/File/Luke Frazza)
And that's a good thing.
Embattled by who? The MSM? Give me a break!
In this photo provided by Meet The Press, Chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee (news - web sites) Sen. John Warner (news, bio, voting record), R-Va., left, listens as Sen. Carl Levin (news, bio, voting record), D-Mich., talks about Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld during a taping of 'Meet the Press' at the NBC Studios Sunday, Dec. 19, 2004 in Washington. (AP Photo/Meet The Press, Alex Wong)
In this photo provided by CBS News, Sen. Chuck Hagel (news, bio, voting record), R-Neb., a member of the Senate Intelligence Committee and the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, appears on CBS' Face the Nation where he expressed his lack of confidence in Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, in Washington, Sunday, Dec. 19, 2004. Hagel is a Vietnam veteran and joins other leading Republicans who think Rumsfeld has not done a good job managing the war in Iraq (news - web sites), but says the decision on whether to replace him is up to President Bush (news - web sites). (AP Photo/CBS News, Karin Cooper)
http://www.neoperspectives.com/rumsfeld.htm
Rumsfeld quotes for Rumsfeld fans.
Agreed. No one since Patton has been as successful at killing bad guys. I'm very glad to see the President come out for Rumsfeld. So what if the prisses thought Rumsfeld was not "sensitive" enough. I don't want him to be sensitive, I want him to be lethal.
Please have more respect for Patton. That is not a reflection on Rumsfeld but Patton is in a different league than Rumsfeld. Patton's legacy is hard to match, I doubt if we ever have a commander that will equal his.
Answer: Three winners: 1. Terrorists 2. Democrats 3. John McCain
Three good reasons to keep Rumsfeld.
If the rats, the rinos Chuck Hagel and John McCain are against him, it means that Rummy is good for the country.
That's all I meant.
Did Rummy serve in combat?
Of course that depends on the replacement. Tommy Franks anyone?
Wasn't he a navy flier in the late 1950's?
Exactly! The libs are trying anything to get traction out of that non-story and it's been going on for too long as it is. I guess since they don't have any new "The sky is falling, the sky is falling..." stories they're glomming onto this.
Oh well, desperate minds, desparate actions. I think Zarqawi can put our libs to work over there in Iraq if they don't have anything better to do right now.
I think the crux of the matter is that Rummy is taking the fall, he is being used as the scapegoat for the Iraq war not going well,than the Marines saying that they dont have armor,Hagel and a lot of the Senators are blaming him for all of that plus not having an exit strategy.
It actually all started with the prisoners being abused and than it went on to not signing the letters and now Hagel comes out with, he blames Rumsfeld for Iraq's failures.
Handwriting on the wall for him or does he have staying power?
Did Mickey Mouse?
When I hear this stuff the last few days about Rumsfeld, I think of him rescuing people from the burning Pentagon before his body guards finally made him quit.
Hagel and others are grandstanding. The war in Iraq has gone far better than anyone expected, but these folks see an opening to hype themselves at the expense of Rummy and Bush and they are going for it. They ought to be expelled from the Republican party. I wonder how quiet McCain would get if he was quickly banished from his leadership positions and cut off from RNC funding.
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