Personally I don't trust ANY of them.
Posted on 12/04/2005 11:26:02 AM PST by wagglebee
Lieberman is NOT honest!! He would Not hold Clinton accountable in the impoochment. Joe's a whiney-ass wuss who gets one thing right once in a while...big whoop.
Oh, well, Andrew Sullivan is on such good terms with this administration and conservatives in general. LOL
These Rummy will be replaced stories seem to be as unending as the reported deaths of zarquawi.
Leiberman is not going to leave to become SOD for two years assuming he's won his re-election for six more years in D.C. What is Sullivan on>
I'm counting on Rummy exiting the day G.W.B. does in 2009 defying his critics.
Rumsfeld would make an excellent President for 2009-16 cycle.
I agree, but it's not going to happen, see what I wrote in #35.
Let Rummy stay out this administration. Hated by the MSM they look for "anything" to slander him. He's a favorite to beat on. SECDEF, hawk, republican who does not pander to the MSM and embarrasses them even on occasion; they love to cut into him at every opportunity they have.
I don't think the US could have had a better SECDEF than we did. He weathered some bad times, had to make serious strategic decisions and adopted a DoD that was on a downward glide slope with no vision and decaying moral.
I’d go as far as to say that moral is “higher” today than in 1999. Soldiers don’t join an Army to sit in garrison. Most of those 20 something guys want to go. They want a CIB, a Combat patch. What soldiers see is when their Army suffers from a “Peace dividend”. When their pay and benefits erode. When housing areas don’t get renovated and needed systems don’t get bought because of a lack of funds. When money is so tight that the allocation for ammunition at ranges has to be adjusted. When soldier should shoot more because they barely meets the minimal standard, but they don’t because there is a lack of funding. When Generals and the Command Sergeant Major’s of the Army get fired for adultery, but the Commander in Chief commits the same, plus perjury but gets off with a slap on his wrist. “He’s your boss.” The DoD suffered from a lack of competent leaders, who were appointed because the toed the Clinton line but were sometimes grossly incompetent (i.e. Brown). When political statements are made and Clinton panders to the “gay” vote and pushes a “Don’t ask don’t tell” policy onto a conservative overwhelmingly male population. Those things hurt moral! But that the MSM didn’t carte to report about. Clinton after all was their boy.
Rummy gets the negative press because he's not liked. But he makes all the right decisions.
Red6
Personally I don't trust ANY of them.
But I think what makes him a brilliant SecDef is the fact that he knows enough to realize the areas where the career military bosses are the ones who know how to run a war. He stays out of their way and lets them do what they have spent decades learning how to do.
I feel the same. He was a willing accomplice to Al Gore's attempt to steal the election, period.
Good point.
Never thought of it that way. But he took the pressure off of Bush, that's for sure!
Red6
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Lieberman is not the worst democrat by far but he's no Zell Miller and he's certaingly no Rumsfeld. Lieberman rolled over on his principles when it came to the impeachment vote and is fairly left of center on most things. His support for the war is directly related to his support for Israel, admirable certainly, but he's a one trick pony.
Let's see, McCain or Lieberman.
I trust Lieberman much more than McCain to do what he knows is right rather than politically expedient. The evidence is that McCain is much more interested in having his name associated with his new ideas rather than tried and proven acts credited to someone else, aka a legacy. This makes him extremely dangerous.
If he stands down does that mean Connecticut's Republican governor gets to replace him?
I dunno, he could be controlled somewhat within the Bush admin rather than voting liberal on the Senate floor.
Lieberman would make a great Defense Secretary, but I hope he stays in the Senate as a Democrat as his gracious presence annoys all of the right people.
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