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Donald Rumsfeld: A “Trained Ape” Could Manage War Better Than Obama (Video)
Gateway Pundit ^ | Tuesday, March 25, 2014, 12:48 PM | Jim Hoft

Posted on 03/25/2014 12:16:27 PM PDT by newgeezer

Former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld told Greta Van Susteren on Monday, “A trained ape can get a status of forces agreement. It does not take a genius.”

Rumsfeld was talking about Barack Obama’s failed diplomacy in Iraq and Afghanistan.

CNS News reported:

Donald Rumsfeld, who served as U.S. Defense Secretary under President George W. Bush, blames poor diplomacy by the Obama administration for the current strained relations with Afghan President Hamid Karzai.

“Our relationship with Karzai and with Afghanistan was absolutely first-rate in the Bush administration,” Rumsfeld told Fox News’s Greta Van Susteren on Monday. “It has gone down hill like a toboggan ever since the Obama administration came in.”

Rumsfeld pointed to the fact that the Obama administration has failed to get Karzai to sign an agreement that would allow some U.S. troops to remain in Afghanistan after 2014, when combat ends.

The U.S. has status of forces agreements with more than a hundred countries, Rumsfeld noted. “A trained ape can get a status of forces agreement,” he said. “It does not take a genius. And we have so mismanaged that relationship.”


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; Government
KEYWORDS: afghanistan; demagogicparty; dogwhistle; donaldrumsfeld; hamidkarzai; iraq; memebuilding; obama; partisanmediashill; partisanmediashills; planetofthrapes; trainedape; truth
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To: newgeezer
A trained ape can get a status of forces agreement

That's worth being looked at and savored for a few minutes.
Reminds me of the time before the PC pandemic infested and defiled absolutely everything.
Anyone still remember, back when we were still citizens ?

No Guilt .. No Apologies .. No Exceptions

41 posted on 03/25/2014 1:40:49 PM PDT by tomkat
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda

Now, I never said that he SHOULDN’T have said it. I have no problem with people speaking their minds. It’s a common saying: “You can train a monkey to do ‘x’”, or “Even a trained monkey can do ‘x’”. Of course, that will NOT matter in this case.

Then again, he could have probably chosen OTHER words to express the same thing. LOL

I just hope he doesn’t back down, go on some dumb ass ‘apology tour’, or check into “rehab”....


42 posted on 03/25/2014 1:54:11 PM PDT by KoRn (Department of Homeland Security, Certified - "Right Wing Extremist")
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To: newgeezer

What’s the problem. The libs preach Darwinism. They told us who his forefathers were. ;-)


43 posted on 03/25/2014 2:01:08 PM PDT by Average Al
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To: newgeezer

True, but poor choice of words.


44 posted on 03/25/2014 2:16:40 PM PDT by LuvFreeRepublic
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To: KoRn

No he shouldn’t apologize but no doubt libs are going to stretch this out for all it’s worth for the next month. I could just see tomorrows headlines: “Rummy makes racist remark!” and then all the usual clowns will hold protests and Hitlery will claim she is outraged to further her POTUS campaign.


45 posted on 03/25/2014 2:20:36 PM PDT by GrandJediMasterYoda (Hitlery: Incarnation of evil.)
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To: newgeezer

Rumsfeld is wrong. The ape wouldn’t have to be trained to be smarter than obama.


46 posted on 03/25/2014 2:31:32 PM PDT by VerySadAmerican (".....Barrack, and the horse Mohammed rode in on.")
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To: newgeezer

“Aw,Barry, I’m sure Don didn’t mean anything by it. Here, have a banana.”


47 posted on 03/25/2014 2:33:37 PM PDT by exit82 ("The Taliban is on the inside of the building" E. Nordstrom 10-10-12)
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To: newgeezer

“A trained ape can get a status of forces agreement. It does not take a genius.”

Or Slow Joe, or traitor Kerry-Heinz, or bought-n-paid-for Hagel for that matter.


48 posted on 03/25/2014 2:34:09 PM PDT by RetiredTexasVet (History is about to be repeated in the Third World of Progressive intellectual and moral depravity.)
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To: newgeezer

He mentioned toboggan as well. Is he implying that Obama isn’t American or Kenyan, but French Canadian?


49 posted on 03/25/2014 2:34:57 PM PDT by 1010RD (First, Do No Harm)
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To: newgeezer

I have always(and I mean this honestly) always thought he looked like a chimpanzee. The ears especially. Now prove me wrong!


50 posted on 03/25/2014 2:40:51 PM PDT by Doc Savage ("I've shot people I like a lot more,...for a lot less!" Raylan Givins)
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To: freedomlover

“....I’ve never seen a trained cat....”

No opposeable thumbs. It’s tough going through life like that...


51 posted on 03/25/2014 2:50:14 PM PDT by NFHale (The Second Amendment - By Any Means Necessary.)
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To: newgeezer

If Rumsfeld’s famous knowing meme, Obama “doesn’t know what he doesn’t know.”


52 posted on 03/25/2014 3:17:07 PM PDT by savedbygrace (But God!)
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To: newgeezer
Oh, that's going to get the natives riled up!
53 posted on 03/25/2014 4:04:54 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum ("The man who damns money has obtained it dishonorably; the man who respects it has earned it.")
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To: dblshot

“So is Putin going to make a deal with Karzai to fund his government in return for mineral rights...”

Explain to everyone which mineral rights. Looking forward to your response...


54 posted on 03/25/2014 4:31:06 PM PDT by sergeantdave
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To: newgeezer; All
 photo excited_Julius_zps498f3912.gif SPOT ON! Rummey calls it straight.
55 posted on 03/25/2014 6:38:18 PM PDT by DogByte6RER ("Loose lips sink ships")
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To: I want the USA back

I thought he was talking about Moosechelle. Sorry.


56 posted on 03/25/2014 8:06:10 PM PDT by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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To: newgeezer

He must take a look in the mirror...given the horrors he and his bunch have created in Iraq and elsewhere.


57 posted on 03/25/2014 9:12:17 PM PDT by eleni121 ("All Along the Watchtower" Book of Isaiah, Chapter 21, verses 5-9)
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To: dblshot

Thank God somebody is supplying the Egyptian and Syrian govts. The US has chosen to arm foreign Islamic psychopathic predators.


58 posted on 03/25/2014 9:15:10 PM PDT by eleni121 ("All Along the Watchtower" Book of Isaiah, Chapter 21, verses 5-9)
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To: sergeantdave

http://afghanistan.cr.usgs.gov/minerals


59 posted on 03/25/2014 9:52:33 PM PDT by hinckley buzzard
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To: sergeantdave
I remember reading somewhere about China's stockpiling of rare earth minerals and the strategic impacts of that. Google Afghanistan and rare earth minerals and there a a lot of articles on that. I guess I should have typed, in return for rare earth mineral rights to be more precise. Here is one good link on subject..
http://www.american.com/archive/2013/august/afghanistans-rare-earth-element-bonanza
60 posted on 03/26/2014 5:50:36 AM PDT by dblshot (I am John Galt.)
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