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1 posted on 12/20/2004 2:23:27 PM PST by Tumbleweed_Connection
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To: Tumbleweed_Connection

I'm wit dat...what 'e said...


2 posted on 12/20/2004 2:29:01 PM PST by Edgerunner (Don't pay attention to me, ..I haven't been here long enough to have any credibility...)
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To: Tumbleweed_Connection

Of course that's why the rats are pressing the issue, even though it is a NON-ISSUE...


3 posted on 12/20/2004 2:30:19 PM PST by Edgerunner (Don't pay attention to me, ..I haven't been here long enough to have any credibility...)
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To: Tumbleweed_Connection; NormsRevenge; Grampa Dave; blam; SunkenCiv; Dog; Dog Gone; TexKat

Excellent article...adding some keywords for later search...


4 posted on 12/20/2004 2:31:06 PM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach (A Proud member of Free Republic ~~The New Face of the Fourth Estate since 1996.)
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To: Tumbleweed_Connection

Bush should get the song translated into Arabic, Persian and French and have the Marine band - conducted by Donald Rumsfeld - play it at his inauguration.

ROFL!!!!!

What a great Idea........

5 posted on 12/20/2004 2:33:30 PM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach (A Proud member of Free Republic ~~The New Face of the Fourth Estate since 1996.)
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To: Tumbleweed_Connection

I thought Kerry's theme song was the old Slade standard:

"Run, Run Away!"


6 posted on 12/20/2004 2:44:12 PM PST by PeterFinn (The NAACP can have a recount of the Ohio vote if I can have a recount of the Million Man March.)
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To: Tumbleweed_Connection

I suggest we send all those Senators who voted AGAINST the funds for up armoring the Hummers, yet are now screaming from Rumsfiled's head, to Iraq to explain to our troops WHY they voted AGAINST giving them the tools for the job.

I also suggest we tell the troops it is open season on US Senators and their is no bag limit.

Scum, pure unadulterated scum is all these Media Whores are.


11 posted on 12/20/2004 2:58:24 PM PST by MNJohnnie (Next up, US Senate. 60 in 06!)
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To: Tumbleweed_Connection
Still the One?

If I were G W Bush... I wouldn't use it either...
13 posted on 12/20/2004 3:05:59 PM PST by evets (God bless president George W. Bush)
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To: Tumbleweed_Connection

Because of his great overall direction of the war effort, Rumsfeld was able to actually send letters to the 1000+ dead. Johnson and the instigators of other Democrat wars have had to send telegrams to the families of the thousands of casualties their 'conflicts' caused. The only people writing letters then were the officers who suffered from their mismanagement.

Rummy 2008!


14 posted on 12/20/2004 3:06:37 PM PST by LibertarianInExile (NO BLOOD FOR CHOCOLATE! Get the UN-ignoring, unilateralist Frogs out of Ivory Coast!)
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To: Tumbleweed_Connection

Patton was made to apologize for slapping a GI. Rumsfeld tells troops asking for armor 'tough sh-t' and there must have been too many deaths for him to take the time to sign his name. Bush took the time. Troops deserve respect. Rumsfeld should go back, call the troops together and apologize as Patton did before he was allowed to continue in command.


15 posted on 12/20/2004 3:09:47 PM PST by ex-snook (Exporting jobs and the money to buy America is lose-lose..)
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To: Tumbleweed_Connection

This is a wise man.

We are winning.

Everything (except the media) says it.

Those who don't admit it are the deluded or the deceitful.


16 posted on 12/20/2004 3:12:55 PM PST by xzins (The Party Spirit -- the major issue that keeps me from taking them seriously.)
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To: Tumbleweed_Connection

Get Nancy Sinatra to redo her famous These Boots are made for Marching song. (That is, if she is still alive!)


17 posted on 12/20/2004 3:18:55 PM PST by Grampa Dave (Rummy Phobia is the new mental disorder of the left. It is similiar to Hate GW Syndrome!)
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To: Tumbleweed_Connection
It's Over except the Lamentations of the Stoneage Press!!

Merry Christmas to Our Troops

18 posted on 12/20/2004 3:25:43 PM PST by bray (Keep Christ in the Manger!)
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To: Tumbleweed_Connection; Ernest_at_the_Beach; Alamo-Girl; onyx; ALOHA RONNIE; SpookBrat; ...
Armor fiasco could backfire

Excerpt:

Now Bush's critics (including some self-interested Republicans) want him to admit that the war in Iraq has gone wrong by firing Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld. The immediate justification is equipment shortages, an issue that made headlines when a G.I. complained to Rumsfeld that he and his buddies had to rummage in scrap heaps to "up-armor" their vehicles.

The President has no reason to do this. For one thing, his policy in Iraq is not a failure. But it will be if he listens to his detractors.

The U.S. can't lose a shooting war in Iraq. Its military might is too great. But insurgencies are fueled by optimism. The hope of the jihadis and Saddamites is that they can persuade Americans that this war, like Vietnam, is unwinnable.

Bush's job is to take that hope away by making America's enemies, in Iraq and beyond, believe that the U.S. cannot and will not be stopped.

Reelection helps. Nobody in the Middle East read the results as a vindication of Republican principles on gay marriage, abortion or Social Security reform. It was seen as a mandate for war. Bush is the strong horse, and he has been given four more years to run.

The Arab world understands the determined use of force almost as much as it is mystified by irony (bitterly cynical humor is another story). Bush's victory, followed by the successful election in Afghanistan and the brutal capture of Fallujah, has had a clarifying effect.

Suddenly, the Sunnis in Iraq are talking seriously about participating in the Jan. 30 election. This is not due to a spontaneous outbreak of Jeffersonian enlightenment in Saddamland. On the contrary, it is a cool appreciation of which way the strong horse is running.

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No wartime President can afford to be Hamlet, or even Bruce Springsteen. This is Tom Petty time: Gonna stand my ground, won't be turned around/And I'll keep this world from draggin' me down/... I won't back down.

Bush should get the song translated into Arabic, Persian and French and have the Marine band - conducted by Donald Rumsfeld - play it at his inauguration.


Please let me know if you want ON or OFF my General Interest ping list!. . .don't be shy.


19 posted on 12/20/2004 3:32:26 PM PST by MeekOneGOP (There is only one GOOD 'RAT: one that has been voted OUT of POWER !! Straight ticket GOP! ©)
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To: Tumbleweed_Connection
George Patton Speech

I want you to remember that no bas*ard ever won the war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor, dumb bas*ard die for his country. Men, all this stuff you’ve heard about America not wanting to fight – wanting to stay out of the war - is a lot of horse dung! Americans traditionally love to fight! All REAL Americans love the sting of battle …..

And HERE is the full statement (both the MOVIE version and Patton's actual speech are here).


24 posted on 12/20/2004 3:48:58 PM PST by MeekOneGOP (There is only one GOOD 'RAT: one that has been voted OUT of POWER !! Straight ticket GOP! ©)
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It's too early to declare victory, but this is progress. Nothing would halt it faster than Rumsfeld's forced resignation.

Which is exactly why the Liberals and clueless RINOs are attacking Rumsfeld.They want us to cut bait and run.

42 posted on 12/20/2004 8:05:19 PM PST by HP8753 (John Kerry is the King of Spitzpinklers)
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To: Tumbleweed_Connection
During the presidential campaign, John Kerry vacillated between two anthems: Bruce Springsteen's "No Surrender" and "I Won't Back Down," by Tom Petty.

LOL. Classic.

44 posted on 12/20/2004 8:35:43 PM PST by Petronski (A suitable case for treatment.)
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To: Tumbleweed_Connection; Ernest_at_the_Beach
Sophisticates trained to value irony, self-doubt and skepticism (except, of course, regarding global warming), they see uncertainty as the mark of intellectual honesty.

Heh... heh... yeah... of course, they only insist on that mark for those who disagree with them. ;')
47 posted on 12/20/2004 10:30:01 PM PST by SunkenCiv ("All I have seen teaches me trust the Creator for all I have not seen." -- Emerson)
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To: Tumbleweed_Connection
Bush should get the song translated into Arabic, Persian and French and have the Marine band - conducted by Donald Rumsfeld - play it at his inauguration.

Great idea. And they can make sure the Jihadi Patsies McCain, Hagel, Collins are seated as far in the back as possible....behind a post.

48 posted on 12/20/2004 10:44:01 PM PST by McGavin999 (Senate is trying to cover their A$$es with Rumsfeld hide)
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To: Tumbleweed_Connection

What the 'Rats and 'Rat media don't get is that the election is over - and that whatever temptation Bush might have had for unprincipled actions because of the pragmatics of re-election - it is long gone now.

Bush will rule for the esoteric good of the nation - a concept that 'Rats haven't understood for a long time, if they ever even did. Now - when they nitpick from all these trivial angles, like a 3rd world juvenile pickpocket, Bush can serenely tell them "Rumsfield is doing a great job, he has my full confidence - and you can cram it."


52 posted on 12/20/2004 11:10:47 PM PST by guitfiddlist (When the 'Rats break out switchblades, it's no time to invoke Robert's Rules.)
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To: Tumbleweed_Connection

Big GWB and Rumsfeld ~ Bump!


57 posted on 12/21/2004 12:14:30 PM PST by blackie (Be Well~Be Armed~Be Safe~Molon Labe!)
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