[Hipixs]

Rummy bump

[Gritty]

BTTT

[america-rules]

J. Michael Waller is using facts that Rumsfeld and Franks debunked last week so the entire article is Bunk!

[spycatcher]

Take notice for history: Rumsfeld is the hero of this war, not Tommy Franks or Richard Myers!

[independentmind]

bttt

[He Rides A White Horse]

handcuffed by PC...(tired bump)

[He Rides A White Horse]

But Gen. Tommy Franks, chief of the Central Command who runs the war in Afghanistan from the U.S., called in a lawyer and let the Taliban fanatic escape on the advice of legal counsel.

Somebody call an airstrike in on the ACLU..and quick!

[demkicker]

"This is the only building in Washington that doesn't know we're at war," the official said, ticking off examples of what the Clinton years did to the military culture there."

Reminds me. Didn't Clinton get rid of some mighty powerful generals when he started his don't ask, don't tell policy? Wasn't he in fear of a military take over from OUR military leaders who knew him as a commie traitor and therefore, proceeded to start gutting every military level?

[spald]

"He'll tell you exactly what he thinks, but he does it in a human way that makes you appreciate his judgment, even if it's painful."

Yep I know this manuver quite well. Hubby is a WWII Marine and this is how he has always communicated with our sons.

LOL! The jobs always have gotten done here, also. And nobody complains, either!

[He Rides A White Horse]

Rumsfeld bluntly told his generals that the plans were bullshit and to go back and draw up something that would crush the regime and the destroy terrorists. "He doesn't take any B.S.," says a senior officer who recently presented the secretary with an action proposal. "He'll tell you exactly what he thinks, but he does it in a human way that makes you appreciate his judgment, even if it's painful."

Sometimes a kick in the a$$ is human, and painful, imagine that.

[jackbill]

Both his intellect and his candor are underappreciated.

Not by me. Not by a damned sight. Of all of President Bush's appointments, Rummy is the absolute best. Can you even imagine Bill Cohen running the war on terriorism? Or, better yet, would you even consider wanting Cohen running the DOD today?

[jackbill]

Sources close to Rumsfeld say he has received precious little support from the State Department, led by another strong personality, Secretary of State Colin Powell. Though an able implementer of policy, the retired four-star general historically has been cautious and risk-averse, according to insiders who have known him throughout his career. Politically popular, Powell is not of the temperament to rattle the cages when the president needs it.

When will the "mainstream media" recognize that Powell is nothing but the typical "token"? Basically a useful idiot.

[mombonn]

Rumsfeld has returned old-fashioned military attitudes of yesteryear. Modern-day military leaders have eschewed words such as "kill" and "bomb" and "enemy," in favor of Clinton-era words such as "degrade." The defense secretary unabashedly embraces the old-fashioned terminology and, with it, a victorious way of thinking.

Thank Heaven, the adults are in charge! A thousand million thanks to Rummy who, "at age 68, ditched a comfortable retirement to embrace a crushing 14-hour-a-day, six-and-a-half-day work week."

We are in good hands!

[NYC GOP Chick]

Rumsfeld is said to have exploded when that Pentagon lawyer saved the life of bin Laden's chief sponsor, making it painfully clear to the political generals that George W. Bush, not Bill Clinton, is their commander in chief.

And I thank God for that every night before I go to sleep, every morning when I wake up and many times in between.

[ladyinred]

Ping

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

What I find missing in the discussion of the problem of Clintonoids still in DoD is the effect of the nonpartisan Senator Jeffords . . . and little note made in our discussion at least, of

. . . Christopher Dodd of Connecticut . . . drove further wedges in the once-solid bipartisan national-security consensus . . .

. . . Dodd currently is chairman of the Senate Rules and Administration Committee and chief of a Foreign Relations Committee panel responsible for the Western Hemisphere and fighting narcoterrorism. It is Dodd who is blocking President Bush's choice, Otto Reich, to lead the State Department's Western Hemisphere division, from which battles against narcoterrorism could be fought effectively.

[kcvl]

Mr. Rendon (Rendon Group)previously served as Executive Director and National Political Director of the Democratic National Committee; Executive Director of the Commission on Presidential Nomination and Party Structure; Director of Scheduling for President Carter's 1980 national general election campaign; and member of President Carter's senior campaign staff.

[Shenandoah]

THE CULPABILITY OF WILLIAM JEFFERSON CLINTON

[Robert-J]

Thank God for Rumsfeld, a true American hero.

[slimer]

a bump for Professor Rumsfeld.