[Ragtime Cowgirl]

Thank you, Hipixs.

Q Mr. Secretary -- Mr. Secretary, I'm Specialist Chadwick of the United State Army Dental Activity at Fort Carson. My question is, considering that we still have troops in every area that we have conducted operations during the Clinton administration, why is this operation in Iraq viewed negatively in the press as a Vietnam- style quagmire? (Applause.)

SEC. RUMSFELD: Give that man an "A". (Laughter, applause.)

The uncut version. Classic, courageous (and above anything his enemies can throw at him), Rummy.

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[Alamo-Girl]

Bump!

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"Q Mr. Secretary -- Mr. Secretary, I'm Specialist Chadwick of the United State Army Dental Activity at Fort Carson. My question is, considering that we still have troops in every area that we have conducted operations during the Clinton administration, why is this operation in Iraq viewed negatively in the press as a Vietnam- style quagmire? (Applause.)

SEC. RUMSFELD: Give that man an "A". (Laughter, applause.)

I'll tell you, it's beyond me. I -- I just had a hearing before the House of Representatives Appropriations Committee on a(n) emergency supplemental budget. And that very day, 17 members of the United States Congress, Republicans and Democrats alike, had just arrived back from Iraq. And six of them were on that committee. And they went right down the line, every single one of them, saying that what they see and read about Iraq in the United States and in the region does not compare with what they personally saw and experienced with their own eyes. And -- and -- (applause). These people went right down -- they were stunned by the difference between what they experienced in that country and what they saw and what they were being told in the press.

Now, it should not surprise you that the next day there was not a single word in the press about that hearing. Not one of those first eyewitness comments by seven members -- six or seven members of the United States House of Representatives of both parties -- not a single word of what they said about what was taking place in Iraq appeared, to my knowledge, in -- at least in the Washington press."



I extended your quote to what I hope is used by the Bush/Cheney campaign.

The bias exhibited in the media toward the Bush administration has extended to diminishing the honorable, brave and efficient work of our troops. The media should be ashamed!

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Bump!

[Pan_Yans Wife]

A bump for Rummy!

[blackie]

The uncut version. Classic, courageous (and above anything his enemies can throw at him), Rummy ~ Bump!

He Is The Man!