SPOT ON! Rummey calls it straight.
Posted on 03/25/2014 12:16:27 PM PDT by newgeezer
Former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld told Greta Van Susteren on Monday, “A trained ape can get a status of forces agreement. It does not take a genius.”
Rumsfeld was talking about Barack Obama’s failed diplomacy in Iraq and Afghanistan.
CNS News reported:
Donald Rumsfeld, who served as U.S. Defense Secretary under President George W. Bush, blames poor diplomacy by the Obama administration for the current strained relations with Afghan President Hamid Karzai.
“Our relationship with Karzai and with Afghanistan was absolutely first-rate in the Bush administration,” Rumsfeld told Fox News’s Greta Van Susteren on Monday. “It has gone down hill like a toboggan ever since the Obama administration came in.”
Rumsfeld pointed to the fact that the Obama administration has failed to get Karzai to sign an agreement that would allow some U.S. troops to remain in Afghanistan after 2014, when combat ends.
The U.S. has status of forces agreements with more than a hundred countries, Rumsfeld noted. “A trained ape can get a status of forces agreement,” he said. “It does not take a genius. And we have so mismanaged that relationship.”
That's worth being looked at and savored for a few minutes.
Reminds me of the time before the PC pandemic infested and defiled absolutely everything.
Anyone still remember, back when we were still citizens ?
No Guilt .. No Apologies .. No Exceptions
Now, I never said that he SHOULDN’T have said it. I have no problem with people speaking their minds. It’s a common saying: “You can train a monkey to do ‘x’”, or “Even a trained monkey can do ‘x’”. Of course, that will NOT matter in this case.
Then again, he could have probably chosen OTHER words to express the same thing. LOL
I just hope he doesn’t back down, go on some dumb ass ‘apology tour’, or check into “rehab”....
What’s the problem. The libs preach Darwinism. They told us who his forefathers were. ;-)
True, but poor choice of words.
No he shouldn’t apologize but no doubt libs are going to stretch this out for all it’s worth for the next month. I could just see tomorrows headlines: “Rummy makes racist remark!” and then all the usual clowns will hold protests and Hitlery will claim she is outraged to further her POTUS campaign.
Rumsfeld is wrong. The ape wouldn’t have to be trained to be smarter than obama.
“Aw,Barry, I’m sure Don didn’t mean anything by it. Here, have a banana.”
“A trained ape can get a status of forces agreement. It does not take a genius.”
Or Slow Joe, or traitor Kerry-Heinz, or bought-n-paid-for Hagel for that matter.
He mentioned toboggan as well. Is he implying that Obama isn’t American or Kenyan, but French Canadian?
I have always(and I mean this honestly) always thought he looked like a chimpanzee. The ears especially. Now prove me wrong!
“....I’ve never seen a trained cat....”
No opposeable thumbs. It’s tough going through life like that...
If Rumsfeld’s famous knowing meme, Obama “doesn’t know what he doesn’t know.”
“So is Putin going to make a deal with Karzai to fund his government in return for mineral rights...”
Explain to everyone which mineral rights. Looking forward to your response...
SPOT ON! Rummey calls it straight.
I thought he was talking about Moosechelle. Sorry.
He must take a look in the mirror...given the horrors he and his bunch have created in Iraq and elsewhere.
Thank God somebody is supplying the Egyptian and Syrian govts. The US has chosen to arm foreign Islamic psychopathic predators.
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