Bush Apologizes, Says Rumsfeld Will Stay

Rapid City Journal ^ | May 6, 2004 | JOHN J. LUMPKIN

[fat city]

This is the way metrosexuals fight a f***ing war!

[dalebert]

I still want to know who gave all the photos to the press.

[savedbygrace]

Sen. John Kerry of Massachusetts, the Democratic presidential nominee-in-waiting, also jabbed at Bush on the issue. In an appearance in California, Kerry said, "As president I will not be the last to know what is going on in my command. I will demand accountability for those who serve, and I will take responsibility for their actions."

Just like he took responsibility for falling down while skiing, or for offensive material on his website, or for offensive and downright incorrect information in lines he's given dozens of times in his speeches (Carter & Baker as possible envoys, Benedict Arnold companies,etc.)

In each of those cases, he blamed somebody else, never taking responsibility for anything bad that is done in his campaign.

Idiot.

[Conservativegreatgrandma]

Rummy resigns after Kerry pulls out of the presidential race. Kerry is guilty of far worse during the Viet Nam war. (Actually, I think he was lying through his teeth.)

[SevenofNine]

YEAH I wonder myself how did the Dan "What the Frequency" Rather got those photos for 60 minute 2

HOW

I bet Dubya and Rummy want know that $60,000 question

[xzins]

Ridiculous title. I heard the president.

He said he was sorry THAT a very few soldiers behaved the way they did.

He did not say that HE was sorry THAT HE did anything. In other words, he regretted the behavior of others.

So do I. Do you think I'll make headlines?

[dancusa]

If those prison photos were in Robert Mapplethorpe exhibit the media would be fawning over the "artist's" talent.

[pawdoggie]

Those calling for Secretary Rumsfeld to resign are merely asking that historical precedent be followed, e.g. the resignation of Secretary of War Stimson for failure to prevent Pearl Harbor; the resignation of Defense Secretary George C. Marshall for the prison riots at Koje Do Island during the Korean War; the resignation of whiz kid SECDEF Robert McNamara over the Bay of Pigs; the resignation of William Perry over the "Desert One" (aborted Iran hostage rescue) incident. Of course, none of the above resignations actually occurred.

Now, it is true that Les Aspin resigned presumably over the "Blackhawk Down" incident in Somalia, but anyone who thinks that this was a new precedent or paradigm for how a SECDEF should behave need only consider that his successor, Mr. Cohen, did not see fit to resign over the USS Cole, or the Sudanese Aspirin factory bombing or the attack on the Chinese Embassy in Belgrade.

[ladyinred]

Good enough! Indeed, more than good enough.

SHUTUP Media lefists!

[PeoplesRep_of_LA]

Is this the Bill OReilly effect? I mean I have absolutely NO idea why anyone other than embittered military brass, fragile egoed Congressmen, or publicty whore commentators would have any desire to fire the straight shooting Donald Rumsfield.

I never thought that I had a political tin-ear, but this "fire Rumsfield movement" just seems so odd, so unfounded, so forced I find myself unable to relate to it.

Course there is a fourth group that also hates the man, who could generate a so called movement all by themselves...the news media. They would never create a story out of whole cloth though...noooooo.

[SerpentDove]

THE MEETING (Transcript):


(Door closes)

Bush: What a bunch of Clymers.

Rumsfeld: Big time.

Bush: So, got any big plans this weekend?

Rumsfeld: Nah.

Bush: Me neither. Well, see ya, pal.

[Ditter]

Yeah, like Janet Reno resigned over Waco. Oh wait.........

[Tax Government]

Bush has appointed some truly excellent people, including Rumsfeld and Rice. The democRATs can never forgive that, so they do the next best thing: issue b***sh*t calls for their resignation.

[absalom01]

worldwide wave of revulsion over photographs showing Iraqi prisoners

Hmmm... let me just think about this for a minute...worldwide wave of revlusion....sort of like that worldwide wave of revulsion (tm) that followed this week's brutal murder of a pregnant woman and her four children in Gaza....sort of like that worldwide wave of revulsion(tm) when Danny Perl was brutally murdered....sort of like that worldwide wave of revulsion(tm) over the brutal murders and dislocations of a million black Africans in the Sudan....oh wait a minute, sorry, I must be on the wrong page here...

Now it's my turn to say "yes, but...". I can't justify what our troops did, but I can't get too worked up over it, either. I'm just sick to death of the worldwide wave of hypocracy that this incident has provided an excuse for.

[Dog Anchor]

President Bush was correct to apologize. Only he apologized to the wrong people.

He should have apologized to the American public and to all upstanding military personnel(In your face socialists).
As for the Arab street, they can go straight to hell.

[freekitty]

From what I heard; Bush did not apologize and rightly so. Also, Rummy should stay.

[Howlin]

ROFLMAO!

[Howlin]

Please read #12!!!