Posted on 12/17/2004 5:12:06 PM PST by Former Military Chick
I fail to see any excuse for this.
But, better late than never.
Well, I think he should go to each funeral. After all, the man's got nothing better to do. Seriously, we could bog him down in the sad facts of death and take him away from the pursuit of victory. Ultimately, we'll lose more lives that way, but at least it won't look bad.
As always, Rummy is a life long bureaucrat with a heart.
Aside from Dubya, Rummy is my favorite person in this administration.
Pride goeth before the fall.
He should deliver the news personally. And stay with the grieving family for a few days.
The wolves are really out after Rumsfeld. He is the only one of Bush's cabinet appointees to actually take on the entrenched Washington bureaucracy in his department. Bush recognizes this. Unfortunately, some of the other people on our side don't.
As tom Lantos said at least Admrial bota (sp) killed himself.
Hackworth is a perfumed prince who figure Ike was a great combat leader and it was cool to smoke dope with the troops, and then the going got tough he ran away to australia.
In the military, we use whatever means are available to perform the required task at minimum cost to life, blood, and treasure. Period.
/john
The man does have a day job, in case you forgot.
During the Second World War it was the unit commander who wrote the condolence letters. During the Korean, Cold, and Vietnam wars it was the same. Donald Rumsfeld is a kind and gracious man who decided to send these letters himself. He didn't have to do it.
Hackworth, despite his many medals, is not qualified to wipe Donald Rumsfeld's ass. Hackworth should go back to pushing pictures of Prisoner Abuse to the New York Times.
I hear that Lott is now saying Rumsfeld should resign. is that right?
Wonder if she knows about Osama Obama's book deal and whether she will say anything about that.
BTW all you think Rumsfeld is a lousy SECDEF, I give you two words Cohen and Aspin.
Hack is a hack. That has to be the most disgusting man on the planet. He has tried to have his 15 minutes of fame on the backs of our men and women in uniform and they figured him out a lot faster then most of us did.
as Rush was saying today, the media, and even many republicans in the senate - just love Cohen. He's an insider, a republican who crossed the lines to work for Clinton - no matter what he did, how run down the military was under his tenure, he is praised as a great SECDEF.
That the kind of sickness the Beltway mentality breeds. failure is success, what should be criticism and shame is turned into praise.
I am SO glad that Aspin is gone....
/john
Bush needs toi come out FORCEFULLY and say Runy is his man and staying on and that all these partisan won't matter
And he needs to TELL the GOP congress to GET WITH THE DAMN PROGRAM and the hell with McCain
Everyone loves to kick a dog when he's down. If Bush is behind him, I certainly hope there's a good reason and I trust that there is. If not...loyalty is important but our soldiers lives are so much more important.
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