Donald Rumsfeld, patriot

The American Thinker ^ | Dec. 17, 2004 | John B. Dwyer

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Among the many distinctive expressions Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld has offered as gifts to the media is the following: “I don’t do quagmires,” referring to the mantra-like repetition by some war critics that Iraq has become a quagmire.

The media, however, especially its Official Rumsfeld-Hating Clique, remains mired in the viciously viscous putrid muck of all-consuming loathing of the Secretary of Defense.

That same media currently has its puerile knickers in a twist about President Bush awarding Tommy Franks, Paul Bremer and George Tenet the Medal of Freedom. Or, as liberal columnist Richard Cohen, speaking for many media colleagues, calls it, “the Medal of Failure.”

His critics hold him to standard of omniscience and infallibility, denouncing him for failing to predict every tactical and strategic response imaginable. The enemy’s resort to road-side improvised explosive devices should have been anticipated, they complain, and all the Humvees should have been armored, a process that would have had to have begun at a time when they were warning of a long war with Saddam, mass starvation, and tens of thousands of body bags coming home.

From the day Rumsfeld took office, the Hate Clique has been trying to pin their own medal of failure on the man responsible for this country’s defense.

[Kitten Festival]

A great essay on Rumsfeld and the nature of his slimy little critics who are not fit to be boils on his butt.

[ScaniaBoy]

Thanks for posting this excellent article.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Great...local paper has another hit piece on Rumsfeld , this one from the knight-Ridder news Service...

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Rumsfeld arrived to the great relief of Pentagon bureaucrats. They had held the fort against Clinton for 8 years. Here was a republican administration that sent them a savior in the form of Rumsfeld. What they didn't expect was that Rummy came to bury Caesar, not praise him.

When Bush won in 2000, the US army was still configured to fight the cold war. Bush and Rummy saw the need to modernize. This meant major changes. Generals and bureaucrats with political ties are pulling as many strings as possible to destroy Rummy and send a message to Bush that they want to be left alone.

It's a battle. I hope the White House stands strong against this unfair attacks against Rumsfeld and continues to transform the military into a 21st century fighting force.