Posted on 04/17/2006 6:11:01 AM PDT by RepublicNewbie
No! NOT the mogul whose first wife (Ivana) took to calling him "The Donald." The man who has dedicated himself to protecting America instead of promoting himself and accumulating as much wealth as possible before his demise. An Eagle Scout and recipient of the Distinguished Eagle Scout Award from the Boy Scouts of America. The youngest and the oldest person to have held the position of America's Secretary of Defense. The man who oversaw the transition to an all volunteer army AND led the Defense Department during the liberation of Iraq.
THAT man is Donald Henry Rumsfeld, still married to the same lady (Joyce) after more than fifty years, not Donald Trump, married three times and divorced twice. The kind of man President George W. Bush rightly calls a good man.
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This really deserves to be pulled it it has'nt been already.
The premise is clunky in the posting.
The first reply is a new "geurilla-type" posting, being it's own "newsletter".
Dear Adm: please declare this a TOS disaster and pull same.
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