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From left in these file photos, Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman John Warner, R-Va., a former Navy secretary; former Sen. Sam Nunn, D-Ga. and Sen. Joseph Lieberman, D-Conn. In all the recent talk about whether Donald H. Rumsfeld should quit running the Pentagon, little has been said about successors who might be better able to complete the U.S. military mission in Iraq. (AP PHOTO/file)

1 posted on 05/02/2006 10:35:33 PM PDT by gwb43_2004
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2 posted on 05/02/2006 10:38:05 PM PDT by gwb43_2004 (I love W)
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little has been said about successors who might be better able to complete the U.S. military mission in Iraq.

There's only one other person who could do it, but he's Vice President of the United States.

3 posted on 05/02/2006 10:39:48 PM PDT by sinkspur ( I didn't know until just now that it was Barzini all along.)
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Ain't no one I've seen with Rummy's Balls. Takers anyone to replace this young man?


5 posted on 05/02/2006 10:42:32 PM PDT by txzman (Jer 23:29)
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just for comparison, I'd like to see the projected casualties (wounded and KIA) in Zinni or any of the other loudmouth know it all generals war plans. I'd be willing to bet that they're a hell of a lot higher than what Rummy's pulled off doing it his way. Oddly no one in the DNC or media dare go there. Wonder why?
9 posted on 05/02/2006 10:59:06 PM PDT by SCHROLL (Liberalism isn't a political philosophy - it's a mental illness)
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ACLU Demands Saddam Be Released

The American Civil Liberties Union has issued a demand that former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein, currently being tried for crimes against humanity in Iraq, be released.

"The troops that captured Hussein did so without the benefit of a search warrant," said ACLU spokesman Bertram Petty. "This makes his arrest illegal."

Petty dismissed objections that turning this mass murderer loose would cost more lives in Iraq and possibly elsewhere. "The game has rules," said Petty. "Getting a warrant is one of those rules. It would be unfair for us to bend the rules just because lives are at stake. Two wrongs don't make a right regardless of the situation."

The Bush Administration contends that congressional authorization to use force against Iraq makes Hussein's arrest a legitimate act. "We caught this bastard," said Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld. "There's no way we're letting him off based on the puling of some left-wing lobbyist."

read more at...

http://www.azconservative.org/Semmens1.htm


10 posted on 05/02/2006 10:59:43 PM PDT by John Semmens
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I would prefer it was PRESIDENT Rumsfeld who decided...


11 posted on 05/03/2006 3:31:44 AM PDT by Sir Francis Dashwood (LET'S ROLL!)
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Warner, Nunn or Lieberman? I would laugh even if someone suggested Warner, Nunn and Lieberman.

Rummy would run rings around one or all.


12 posted on 05/03/2006 4:00:42 AM PDT by Loyal Buckeye
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When his critics attack Rumsfeld, they generally focus on blame for what has gone wrong in Iraq. A resilient insurgency has taken nearly 2,400 American lives since the 2003 invasion, far more than expected
Expected by whom? By the people who said we shouldn't attack because Saddam would use chemical weapons? The people who said that the invasion was a failure because we did an operational pause during a sandstorm? Exactly who expected fewer than 2400 killed?

13 posted on 05/03/2006 5:42:19 AM PDT by conservatism_IS_compassion (Journalism is bad news.)
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Few Rumsfeld critics suggest possible successor
. . . because most Rumsfeld critics are Democrats who don't even really believe in having a Defense Department at all.

Who was the last successful Democratic SecDef? It wasn't Cohen, he was a Republican. His predecessor, Les Aspin, resigned in disgrace over Black Hawk Down. The last one before that was Brown, under Carter. Did he leave the military in good shape? Well, let's see, the one before that must have been O.K. Who was that? Robert Vietnam McNamara.

Well there must have been somebody who was a Democrat who was good. The Truman Administration held North Korea to a draw . . .

The only "good" Democratic SecDef in the last half-century was Les Aspin. He fouled up Mogadishu beyond all recognition - but at least he had the grace to admit it, and resign.


14 posted on 05/03/2006 6:15:36 AM PDT by conservatism_IS_compassion (Journalism is bad news.)
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The only person I have thusfar heard of as a possible successor to Don Rumsfeld that I think would do a good job and also communicate that our conduct of the war and of the DOD-led post-war reconstruction is Tommy Franks.


21 posted on 05/04/2006 5:42:45 AM PDT by Redmen4ever
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