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Would firing Rumsfeld save the Americans? (Al Jazeera Quoting Kerry)
Al Jazeera ^ | Dec. 6, 2005 | AJ

Posted on 12/06/2005 11:22:17 PM PST by FairOpinion

Rumors have been circulating that Sen. Joe Lieberman (D-CT) could be tapped to replace the U.S. Secretary of Defense DONALD RUMSFELD.

Following yesterday’s speech by the Secretary of Defense, in which he painted a fake optimistic picture of Iraq's future, Senator John Kerry issued a statement on RAW STORY saying:

“Secretary RUMSFELD today sent dangerous mixed signals about Iraq. Does the Defense Secretary really just throw up his hands and accept that on-going attacks are inevitable in Iraq for the foreseeable future? Is he now admitting that the BUSH Administration's mistakes have made Iraq what it was not before the war, a haven for ‘terrorists’?

“The PRESIDENT owes it to our troops serving in IRAQ to remove Secretary Rumsfeld and replace him at the Pentagon with a Defense Secretary who understands the situation on the ground in Iraq and who will advance, not undermine, American values around the world.

“Brave American troops are serving heroically under very difficult circumstances. Time and again, they have been put in greater danger by the mistakes of this Secretary of Defense who refuses to tell the truth about what is happening in IRAQ and pushes aside anyone who dares speak truth to power. The mistakes are stacked one upon another. The Pentagon is reported to be paying Iraqi newspapers to carry ghostwritten news stories, undermining American credibility. The Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff had to publicly correct Secretary Rumsfeld because he didn't think American troops had an obligation to stop torture.

“We need a fresh start at the Pentagon for the good of American troops, so brave Americans stop paying the terrible price of this Defense Secretary's mistakes.”

MR. RUMSFELD, who made his remarks during a speech at John Hopkins' School of Advanced International Studies in Washington, claimed that the American occupying troops are making magnificent progress in IRAQ , and that the development achieved cannot be measured by the level of bloodshed or the number of daily attacks.

His speech coincided with the Pentagon’s announcement of appointing a retired four-star general to lead a taskforce to seek solutions regarding the threat posed by improvised explosive devices (IED), rebels are currently using against the U.S invaders.

The Secretary of defense came after a week long struggle by the AMERICAN PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH to shore up declining support for the IRAQ war among after the latest uncover of a new U.S. scandal involving bribing Iraqi journalists publish fake news stories in favor of the U.S.-led occupation in Iraq.


TOPICS: Extended News; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: aljazeera; defeaticrats; demtraitors; gigolo; iraq; jeanfrancois; kerry; senatorgigolo
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Kerry, traitor in 1971, traitor today.
1 posted on 12/06/2005 11:22:17 PM PST by FairOpinion
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To: 68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub

Traitor Kerry PING


2 posted on 12/06/2005 11:23:03 PM PST by FairOpinion
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To: FairOpinion

sKerry: Unfit for command. Thank you, Swift Boat Vets.


3 posted on 12/06/2005 11:24:30 PM PST by PeoplesRepublicOfWashington (Dream Ticket: Cheney/Rice '08)
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To: PeoplesRepublicOfWashington

I shudder every time I think that we might have had Kerry as President. Talking about a Manchurian candidate...

Yes, we have the SwiftBoatVets to thank that we dodged the bullet.

Thank you, Swifties!


4 posted on 12/06/2005 11:26:42 PM PST by FairOpinion
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To: PeoplesRepublicOfWashington

"(Dream Ticket: Cheney/Rice '08)"


We share the same dream. :)

I think that would be a great ticket.


5 posted on 12/06/2005 11:27:26 PM PST by FairOpinion
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To: FairOpinion

John Kerry; traitor, jihadi and butt boy for AL Jazeera.


6 posted on 12/06/2005 11:28:50 PM PST by afnamvet
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To: nutmeg

bttt


7 posted on 12/06/2005 11:29:05 PM PST by nutmeg ("We're going to take things away from you on behalf of the common good." - Hillary Clinton 6/28/04)
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To: FairOpinion

Swift Boat Vets: Best $200 I ever spent. Well, either that or the 9' 5-wgt Sage Graphite II rod I bought about 15 years ago.


8 posted on 12/06/2005 11:29:59 PM PST by PeoplesRepublicOfWashington (Dream Ticket: Cheney/Rice '08)
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To: FairOpinion

No, because Bush is the man doing this cat; Rummy is just holding the tail.


9 posted on 12/06/2005 11:30:50 PM PST by clee1 (We use 43 muscles to frown, 17 to smile, and 2 to pull a trigger. I'm lazy and I'm tired of smiling.)
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To: FairOpinion
Hold on. I know it's rather late here on the East Coast. But... are these Kerry's remarks accurate, or is this a parody? I'm serious with this question. If Kerry is saying this sh!t again, I'm fit to be tied; and the pr!ck should be tried for sedition, and shot!

/rant

10 posted on 12/06/2005 11:32:32 PM PST by Cobra64
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To: FairOpinion
I was fortunate enough to be a Wyoming resident for a while, and was privileged to vote for Cheney twice as my congressman. I look forward to voting for him a fifth time in '08. Rice is damned impressive. If she runs for VP in '08, she'll be a shoe-in for president after Cheney steps down.

Then again--ABM: Anyone But McCain.

11 posted on 12/06/2005 11:35:25 PM PST by PeoplesRepublicOfWashington (How long do we have to pretend that the vast majority of Democrats are patriots?)
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To: Cobra64

Kerry REALLY said this.


12 posted on 12/06/2005 11:37:58 PM PST by FairOpinion
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To: Cobra64

Here is the Army Times, another source for Kerry's lunatic statements.

http://www.armytimes.com/story.php?f=1-292925-1394500.php


13 posted on 12/06/2005 11:39:29 PM PST by FairOpinion
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To: FairOpinion
Yes Thank you to the Swifties! And Buckhead.

I gave the Swifties a couple of $$ hits early on.

A long time lurker, seeing the whole CBS phony doc scandal go down here and on powerline or vice versa was very dramatic and influential.

Wolf
14 posted on 12/06/2005 11:55:49 PM PST by RunningWolf (Vet US Army Air Cav 1975)
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To: FairOpinion
I liked it SO much better when he disappeared & we heard nothing from him (sKERRY) after the election!

What is all this bloviating about now? Who is behind it, surely he doesn't think he'd get the nomination in 2008!

He's as bad as Cindy Sheedevil, guess he needs his 15 mins. of fame renewed, narcisists usually do!

15 posted on 12/06/2005 11:56:21 PM PST by blondee123 (Close our borders to illegals! Don't try to appease us!)
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To: FairOpinion
Kerry is nuts of course.

Kerry wants to tout casualties. Well I don't think our casualty count for the entire campaign has hit what we lost on one day 9-11.

That is unprecedented. Why is that not acknowledged??

Another note.., the symbolic impact of OBL's #3 man being taken out by a robotic predator in Pakistan has to eventually percolate in on al queda. Well if not them then their grassroots support.

Wolf
16 posted on 12/07/2005 12:06:01 AM PST by RunningWolf (Vet US Army Air Cav 1975)
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To: Cobra64
Air Force Times

Traitor Kerry never quits.

17 posted on 12/07/2005 12:07:26 AM PST by smoothsailing
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To: FairOpinion
The phenomena of the Swifties and bloggers (yeh I know that the wrong word) perhaps saved that election for us. Each played a part.

Wolf
18 posted on 12/07/2005 12:16:28 AM PST by RunningWolf (Vet US Army Air Cav 1975)
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To: FairOpinion

Holy sh!t. This prick should be riding in his wife's Lincoln Continental limo by a Dallas, TX book repository near a grassy knoll.


19 posted on 12/07/2005 12:18:37 AM PST by Cobra64
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To: smoothsailing
Holy sh!t. This prick should be riding in his wife's Lincoln Continental limo by a Dallas, TX book repository near a grassy knoll.
20 posted on 12/07/2005 12:19:57 AM PST by Cobra64
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