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This is what Rummy said in a recent press conference:

Q: The Los Angeles Times is reporting that there's discussion of setting up a standing U.S. peacekeeping force. Could you comment on that?

Rumsfeld: Oh, there have been discussions, although it wouldn't be U.S. peacekeeping. There have been discussions about that for, oh, goodness, a couple of years, and I know that there was a story about it recently. But there have been no specific proposals put forward.

Thanks for the clarification... we do not need to form an international group of storm troopers that will alternately be controlled by different UN member nations. The French send us here, the British send us there, etc. If we can't agree on WMD in the UN, how could we ever agree on where to send the forces?

Thanks much for the clarification. Now that I believe the report is accurate; it's the tactic that's bull$hit. What are we thinking? If I were a young person of military service age right now and I was thinking of joining up to serve MY COUNTRY and heard this, I would run, not walk, from the recruitment center. Can you imagine signing up to stand guard in a hell-forsaken country under the auspices of the UN? Am I missing something here? And BTW, can Rumsfeld answer a question straight - not like Dr. Seuss, just once, when pressed on an issue he doesn't like? Our troops are being picked off daily, and when pressed, he says 'well, we are suffering scattered attacks.' 'It's 'messy'. If it were his son or daughter, it wouldn't be called 'MESSY'!!!!