"Like Rumsfeld, Only Smaller" (the greatest change agent of all time)

Tech Central Station ^ | 09 Nov 2006 | Josh Manchester

[theFIRMbss]

>They were just waiting. Abu Ghraib gave them something to hang on him

I recently read
(in the Buffy issue of
Marie Claire [!]) a piece

on the Iraq war
that starts saying, in passing,
"... the atrocities

at Abu Ghraib ..." My
eyes just boggled. Panties on
the head, loud music,

no sleep -- these are called
atrocities?! The mainstream
is despicible.

[defenderSD]

It's OK for the MSM to talk about interrogation tactics used in Iraq, but the MSM fails miserably at reporting on WHY we use tough interrogation tactics. We use tough tactics to get information used to save the lives of our military people. The MSM reports on interrogation tactics and then reports on casualties, but they completely fail to explain the connection between interrogation methods and casualties: we use tough tactics to prevent the same brutal attacks on our people that they report in the MSM. This is an obvious distortion of the full truth about Iraq and another example of why I say the MSM is thoroughly corrupt and dishonest.

[visualops]

Thanks, that was a great read.

"Don't say “the White House wants.” Buildings can't want." - a true Rumsfeldism.

"The federal government should be the last resort, not the first. Ask if a potential program is truly a federal responsibility or whether it can better be handled privately, by voluntary organizations, or by local or state governments." - true Conservativism.

[villagerjoel]

Seems like an amazing person in the line of Reagan from what I've found about him.

[rlmorel]

Hell...Mother's Milk causes cancer...didn't you know that?...:)

[rlmorel]

Visit my Rumsfeld page on my website...I have enormous respect for this man.

RLMOREL's Donald Rumsfeld Site

I have had it online for well over a year. I have a different page with Rumsfeld's Rules on it...this is just a long page of quotes, transcripts of press conferences and such.

God bless this man. History WILL be kind to him.

[Zhang Fei]

History WILL be kind to him.

He's at an age where soon, he won't be in a position to care, one way or another. What I hope is that this doesn't lead to a coronary and a premature death. He has earned a quiet retirement. It's too bad that voters have chosen, with this election, to deny him one.

[FreeKeys]

" 'Puppies are God's way of hugging your eyes.' -- You know who said that? Donald Rumsfeld" -- Craig Ferguson, tongue planted firmly in cheek, 3 minutes ago.

[FreeKeys]

Good stuff!

[dvwjr]

Originally posted by: rlmorel

"LOL...that HAS to be a typo there...no way we lost 800 jet aircraft in 1954 alone, though it was dangerous to fly some of those..."

Really?

Originally posted by: em2vn

"Are you sure about that. I think they would have run out of pilots long before they ran out of airplanes."

Before I was born, my late Father had graduated from the USNA and after a year at sea on a Destroyer he went to NAS Pensacola for Flight training in 1955. From the time he got his wings as an Ensign to the time when he was a Navy full LT. around 1961 he was one of only two of his ten-man training section that were still living Naval Aviators. During the 1950s NAS Pensacola was graduating an average of around 2,000 trained Naval aviators per year. Lots of young Navy widows between Korea and Vietnam because of Cold War readiness.

dvwjr

[rlmorel]

I spent the better part of four years of my life and three deployments as flight deck crew on aircraft carriers...I've SEEN stuff like that in person!