Posted on 01/29/2005 6:52:09 AM PST by newsgatherer
Not long ago, a young soldier in Iraq asked Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld a question. His question dealt with what is called up-armoring of HumVees. Much has come out since then about the up-armoring of HumVees used in both Iraq and Afghanistan, not the least of which is that over 85% of all HumVees used in both theatres of operations had been up-armored at the time of the question.
What got our attention was not the question, but Secretary Rumsfeld’s answer. He replied to the soldier by saying "… You go war with the Army you have, not the Army you would like to have." That got us thinking and asking questions about what kind of Military President Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney and Secretary of Defense Don Rumsfeld inherited from the impeached, disgraced, adulterous Clinton administration.
The more we looked at Secretary Rumsfeld answer, the less enchanted we became with Maine’s two senators Olympia Snowe and Susan Collins. Snowe has never portrayed herself as anything but a liberal, she has never tried to pass herself off as pro-life, pro-Christ, pro-Republic, pro-tax cuts or anything else that even comes close to sounding Conservative. But, Senator Susan Collins has. So we went looking to see if when Secretary Rumsfeld said: "… You go war with the Army you have, not the Army you would like to have." he was referring to the likes of Kerry, Kennedy, Biden, Snowe, McCain and Boxer, but not Senator Susan Collins.
What we found was that Susan Collins, by her voting and speaking record in the Senate from January of 1997, when she took office, till February of 2001 when the Clinton regime was replaced with the Administration of President Bush, never once voted...
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That would be good work.
I sure didn't like the way she was used as a figurehead on the Intell Reorg Bill!
"I am getting the hell out of this state prior to its economic and moral collapse."
Hey! No fair! We said that about Washington State!
You guys should meet in the middle, somewhere.
Yeah, ain't it grand?
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