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Bush says Rumsfeld replacement is agent of change
Reuters ^
| 11 November 2006
| Caren Bohan
Posted on 11/11/2006 8:29:30 AM PST by shrinkermd
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Defeat at home can scarcely lead to victory in Iraq.
To: shrinkermd
Crushing defeat? Funny but I don't remember that being the perspective when the elections leaned the Republican way.
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posted on
11/11/2006 8:31:52 AM PST
by
The Ghost of FReepers Past
(Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light..... Isaiah 5:20)
To: shrinkermd
And meanwhile, the North American Union, and other covert anti-soverignty activities move forward without voter knowledge, awareness or approval. All very sanitary and clean....
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posted on
11/11/2006 8:32:21 AM PST
by
EagleUSA
To: shrinkermd
I keep asking myself what is the "consensus" position between stay and win and cut and run. Declare victory and run?
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posted on
11/11/2006 8:33:12 AM PST
by
penowa
To: shrinkermd
"In Gates, Bush chose a former CIA director and pragmatist expected to be more inclined to consensus-building than the combative Rumsfeld"
I'll sure miss the "combative Rumsfeld". He had a backbone and didn't put up with nonsense from the MSM. We need more like him.
To: shrinkermd
You got that right, the cut and run is already being a contingency.
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posted on
11/11/2006 8:36:15 AM PST
by
boomop1
(there you go again)
To: shrinkermd
Oh yeah. A spook bureaucrat is really going to inspire the troops. (sarc off)
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posted on
11/11/2006 8:36:44 AM PST
by
Seruzawa
(Marx's Das Kapital never could compete with the Sears catalog.)
To: shrinkermd
You may now refer to Iraq as a political war.
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posted on
11/11/2006 8:37:21 AM PST
by
Glenn
(Annoy a BushBot...Think for yourself.)
To: shrinkermd
So Bush is replacing Rummy with a guy who ran death squads and torture teams in Central America, and who gave chemical weapons to Saddam, and Stinger missiles to Osama bin Laden, and who twisted Intelligence estimates for Reagan, and who coordinated Iran Contra? Who's the genius who came up with this?
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posted on
11/11/2006 8:39:44 AM PST
by
ArtyFO
(I love to smoke cigars when I adjust artillery fire at the moonbat loonery.)
To: boomop1
Right after his post-election presser plus the Gates appointment announcement, I posted that the President was going to cut-and-run because the clues were right in his words.
I took so much heat for my opinion that I stayed out of the kitchen for the rest of the day.
Leni
To: shrinkermd
Agent of change....hmmmmm, where have I heard that phrase before? Oh, I remember, that's what the dims always say. Trouble is they never tell us if it is a change for the better or a change for the worse.
Wonder why we suspect a change for the worse, when change is not followed with, "for the better"?
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posted on
11/11/2006 8:44:19 AM PST
by
F.J. Mitchell
(We'll stop calling you liberals,liberals, as soon as a better word for "sh*t for brains" is coined.)
To: MinuteGal
LOL! Virtue is it's own reward, Leni. Nobody ever said it would be painless.
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posted on
11/11/2006 8:47:57 AM PST
by
F.J. Mitchell
(We'll stop calling you liberals,liberals, as soon as a better word for "sh*t for brains" is coined.)
To: MinuteGal
It pains me to agree with you.
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11/11/2006 8:52:21 AM PST
by
boomop1
(there you go again)
To: Seruzawa
Oh yeah. A spook bureaucrat is really going to inspire the troops. (sarc off) At least he has some military service. USAF. Rummy does too, but more of it, as a Naval aviator. Gates was an officer in SAC, likely as an intelligence officer, given his educational background at the time ( master's degree in history from Indiana University), but I haven't been able to confirm that.
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posted on
11/11/2006 8:56:23 AM PST
by
El Gato
To: MinuteGal
Took heat? Why?
The vaunted American voter has spoken, and the President is listening.
It is they who are tired of icky war on TV, it makes them uncomforatble, and when Americans are uncomfortable the government must fix it! Cut and run voters rule.
To: shrinkermd
I don't have a problem with Rummy leaving, but this leaves a bad taste in my mouth because it appears that he's been dumped to placate the dems.
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posted on
11/11/2006 9:02:50 AM PST
by
umgud
(I love NASCAR as much as the Democrats hate Bush)
To: shrinkermd
Are we gonna 'cut and run' now?
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posted on
11/11/2006 9:07:32 AM PST
by
teletech
(Friends don't let friends vote DemocRAT)
To: umgud
This was decided weeks ago.
Let the dems have the illusion that they forced him out. They will then overreach. When Gates reaches the same conclusions Rumsfeld did they'll have nowhere to go.
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posted on
11/11/2006 9:08:07 AM PST
by
HelloooClareece
(Proud member of the Water Bucket Brigade...2006 style.)
To: umgud
.. it appears that he's been dumped to placate the dems.. But that's not it; it's because his ability to run DOD is over. Beginning in January, he would have been spending 5 days a week on Capitol Hill being raked over the coals by various Senate and House committees.
And since he had to go, it had to be ASAP so Bush's new guy could be voted on by the still-Republican Senate.
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posted on
11/11/2006 9:10:15 AM PST
by
MrNatural
("...You want the truth!?...")
To: MinuteGal
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posted on
11/11/2006 9:13:22 AM PST
by
HelloooClareece
(Proud member of the Water Bucket Brigade...2006 style.)
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