This is indefensible. It is time for Rumsfeld to go.
While autosigning correspondence is not disrespectful in and of itself, this admission is indicative of a more disturbing institutional casual attitude on Rumsfeld's part toward American troops who have bled and died for their country. And before anybody flames me into oblivion, how much outrage would there be emanating from Freepers if Les Aspin, William Perry, or William Cohen had pulled this during a Clinton administration?
They even admit that President Bush signed the same type of letters... the Commander in Chief, that in and of itself should be enough, but why not make everyone in the chain of command sign a freaking letter.
This is total bs.
You really think signing the letters himself is an issue?
If this were WWII and we had a half million KIA, would you insist he sign them all?
Maybe it would mean more if Thor signed them, but I believe having Rummy doing his job rather than handing out autographs is more important to the soldiers.
Just my opinion....
Obviously, you are a proponent of degrading our efforts in Iraq.
No replacement could fit Rumsfelds shoes in what he has accomplished in these dire times however, the shouts from the media for his removal is apparently effective in guaranteeing a degraded performance in Iraq for the likes of YOU are falling for it.
......Mogadishu
Was that disrespectful enough of our troops?
This is indefensible. It is time for Rumsfeld to go.Bird dookie!
The last few days I have thought about sending Rumsfeld a letter of support. I am sick of people like McCain and the DemoKrauts second-guessing Rumsfeld and Bush.
Today is a good day to send that email.
If anyone has his email addy, please send it. In the meantime, I'll be Google Searching for it myself.
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Your stupidity is indefensible!
In looking over the one I got it looks like the signature may well have been PRINTED, which a huge step below the autopen when it comes to "personal".
Take a look at your own card and you'll see what I mean.
It's the "sending" and the "message", not the "signature".
Just doing one of those Viet Nam Veteran checks, and I couldn't find the website that discusses Robert McNamara's signing of condolence letters ~ or even the sending of same. Did anyone find it?
And no, if there were "autosigning" in other administrations...and I'm sure there WAS, there would not be an outrage by us long-time FREEPers (notice you've only been here 6 months).
For one thing, it wouldn't even be REPORTED that auto-signing was happening in a Clinton administration.
Rumsfeld has deftly handled two wars and the revitalization of a military that was decimated after eight years of a Sink Stainer cutting and slashing. He deserves to stay.
