Posted on 12/19/2004 1:14:03 PM PST by ejdrapes
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A Democrat with a lifetime ACU rating of 85?
A RINO with a Lifetime ACU rating of 85?
Amen on your #10!
Rumsfeld failed the test of morality. Sending men to war to find WMD...no wait I mean to free 25 million Arabs...is one thing. Not spending the time to sign the bloody condolence letters is a disgrace and I'm not going to mindlessly back him since that would make me every bit as moronic as the lock-step left.
1,400 soldiers killed since 9/11 is a little over one a day. Rumsfeld can't sign a letter a day???
DISGRACE!
Think of it this way folks - if Clinton/Albright couldn't sign a letter to a soldier's family and let a machine do it would everyone here be cool with it?
Didn't think so.
The fact that Rumsfeld has had so few letters to sign - an act that would make a HUGE difference for grieving family - is further reason why he should always have done so.
Thank you. BTW, I was reading what one Marine said this morning after hearing that Rumsfeld did not sign the letter of condolence to his parents for the death in Iraq earlier this year of his brother, also a Marine. He noted that Rumsfeld has time for his daily squash game but not a few seconds to personally sign condolence letters. He needs to go -- I am a Goldwater/Reagan/GWBush conservative but we can't tolerate this crap, I don't care what Rumsfeld's political inclinations are.
Rummy's tenure is secure because he'll stay for spite. He could do everything wrong and be safe because no one in the WH or here at FR would want liberals to be happy about his departure.
Or as my father would have put it: You don't shoot a prize bull for pooping in the yard. But you can sure criticize it in spite of the best efforts of the Rummy Uber Alles crowd on FR.
bump!
In all fairness to ol' Rummy, that many signatures at his age could possibly lead to a mild case of writer's cramp. We wouldn't want such a valuable leader facing that kind of risk, do we?
JCBurton
Since Dec 13, 2004
Another Michael Moore Troll graduate pretending to be a conservative.
IMHO, this story is about anti-war families trying to get at the administration. Nothing more.
It's the gesture that counts.
It won't make a huge difference - if any at all - but it might help parents know that those sending their kids to war see them as being more than just another crew in the machine so to speak.
It's just a signature; takes two seconds. Why not do it?
The comparison to a CEO is ludicrous. We are not talking about a purchase request form here.
These are letters going to the family of service men who have given the ultimate sacrifice in the service of our country.
It takes 5 seconds to sign a letter.
Given the significance of the letter being sent, Rummy should either sign it himself, or don't send a letter at all.
JC, although this is a news AND discussion site, you'd never know it from some of the participants who would have you defend every idiot and their incomprehensible actions (e.g., Rumsfeld) because they're employed by a conservative president. In other words, abandon your free thinking, independent logic, and vote like the citizens of Philadelphia do for the Left. Not in this house, no way, never.
"...you'd never know it from some of the participants who would have you defend every idiot and their incomprehensible actions..."
Exactly. Sticking to a position and defending it at all costs no matter what happens is the same mindless "logic" that has sunk the American Left and the Islamic Arab world into their current pathetic state of denial and conspiracy.
I refuse to follow any sort of playbook in the way I see things. Cheers!
You really sound like a liberal, "It's the gesture that counts."
bump!
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