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Rumsfeld says he's not stepping down
Yahoo News ^ | Mar 23, | AFP

Posted on 03/26/2006 9:21:46 AM PST by george76

US Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld brushed off calls for his resignation and said he had no plans to step down.

"I'm hard at the job, working hard, and getting up every day and thinking what we can do for the troops and the wonderful people who serve our country," he told reporters ...

Rumsfeld also was asked about a New York Times column by Maureen Dowd, who said Rumsfeld was being treated at the White House as "an eccentric uncle."

"If you believe everything you read in Maureen Dowd, you better get a life.

(Excerpt) Read more at news.yahoo.com ...


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1 posted on 03/26/2006 9:21:47 AM PST by george76
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Could somebody please tell me what so many on the East Coast have against Rummy????
2 posted on 03/26/2006 9:22:45 AM PST by Just mythoughts
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To: george76
Rumsfeld says he's not stepping down

In other news today, Maureen Dowd says that she has stopped beating her lesbian lover...

3 posted on 03/26/2006 9:25:40 AM PST by Publius6961 (Multiculturalism is the white flag of a dying country)
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To: Just mythoughts
The East Coast homeys don't get the Rumsdog.

He's a west coast vibe.

4 posted on 03/26/2006 9:27:19 AM PST by zarf (It's time for a college football playoff system.)
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To: george76

The only news in this piece is a reminder in the uniformly partisan nature of our major press.

We are in the process of growing new communications media, and as we do we are all starting to ignore these people more and more. Their monopoly isn't completley broken, but its started to crack.


5 posted on 03/26/2006 9:28:25 AM PST by marron
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To: Publius6961; Grampa Dave

RUMSFELD: You like to repeat all that stuff don’t you—on camera?

Did you get it? Let’s make sure you got it. He love that is stuff.

It’s a sure way to get on camera.

He’ll be on the evening news.

http://www.exposetheleft.com/2006/03/23/rumsfeld-retire-dowd/


6 posted on 03/26/2006 9:28:47 AM PST by george76 (Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
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To: Just mythoughts
"Could somebody please tell me what so many on the East Coast have against Rummy????"

He's effectively using American military power to kill terrorists, (the lib's freedom fighters), and win the war against islamofascism. The troops also like him.

7 posted on 03/26/2006 9:29:17 AM PST by Eagles6 (Dig deeper, more ammo.)
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To: george76

Does Rummy have a form letter for this biweekly statement?


8 posted on 03/26/2006 9:31:11 AM PST by RightWhale (pas de lieu, Rhone que nous)
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To: Eagles6
"He's effectively using American military power to kill terrorists, (the lib's freedom fighters), and win the war against islamofascism. The troops also like him."


I consider Rummy a national treasure, but MoD is not the first in an attempt to run him out of town. MacCain and his company have been after him for years.
9 posted on 03/26/2006 9:31:22 AM PST by Just mythoughts
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And, then there was Rumsfeld to Barbara Starr, CNN Pentagon reporter:

"I'm rather old fashioned, I like to engage my brain before
my mouth."

Priceless! Oh, how they hate Mr. Rumsfeld!


http://gatewaypundit.blogspot.com/2006/03/rumsfeld-if-you-believe-maureen-dowd.html


10 posted on 03/26/2006 9:36:04 AM PST by george76 (Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
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To: Just mythoughts
Maybe they don't like his friends?

Some things are not knowable, there are things we know, we know; there are things we think we know and there are things we know we don't know... A great Rummy explanation for events in Iraq.

11 posted on 03/26/2006 9:37:01 AM PST by USS Alaska (Nuke the terrorist savages - In Honor of Standing Wolf)
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LOL, I love how he answers questions. Priceless!!!!


12 posted on 03/26/2006 9:38:09 AM PST by Just mythoughts
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To: USS Alaska

Donald Rumsfeld -- the absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.


13 posted on 03/26/2006 9:39:52 AM PST by george76 (Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
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To: george76

Tom Daschle is saddened, deeply saddened.


14 posted on 03/26/2006 9:40:09 AM PST by Recovering_Democrat ((I am SO glad to no longer be associated with the party of Dependence on Government!))
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SecDef Rumsfeld is GWB biggest asset. He is one the true men in this great Country.
15 posted on 03/26/2006 9:46:57 AM PST by SevenMinusOne
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To: george76
Donald Rumsfeld runs rings around the arrogant self important major media and I'm wondering when the jackels in attendence at the White House press briefings are going to step down and let conservative reporters in to ask some intelligent questions? Its very telling that the major media will not tolerate a reporter in their ranks that has not drank from their hate Bush kool-aid.
16 posted on 03/26/2006 9:54:31 AM PST by Keflavik76
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To: Just mythoughts

He's a man who isn't interested in kissing the ass of media and hand wringers.
Compare him to the sec of def for clinton and you have your true answer.


17 posted on 03/26/2006 10:05:31 AM PST by Joe Boucher (an enemy of islam)
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To: DevSix; All

I am a major Rumsfeld fan. I just finished a book about his management style "The Rumsfeld Way"...he sounds like a bastard to work for, but he gets results, and doesn't get bogged down by intra-political BS.

That is the person I want running our DOD, and even our country. Too bad he won't run for president. He is a true patriot. Check out my links at my homepage:

http://web.mac.com/rlmorel/iWeb/Site/Rumsfeld%20Quotes.html

http://web.mac.com/rlmorel/iWeb/Site/F3A365E2-7AA1-4A4D-986E-B5B40B539A65.html


18 posted on 03/26/2006 10:07:08 AM PST by rlmorel ("Innocence seldom utters outraged shrieks. Guilt does." Whittaker Chambers)
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To: Publius6961

And Andrew Sullivan is .....don't even want to speculate


19 posted on 03/26/2006 10:08:01 AM PST by Blackirish (Hillary is angry AND brittle.)
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To: george76
"I'm hard at the job"

If President Clinton had said this, everyone would laugh.

20 posted on 03/26/2006 10:11:57 AM PST by Tai_Chung
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