Posted on 12/23/2004 6:29:01 PM PST by fidelio
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MOSUL, Iraq (AP) - U.S. Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld visits U.S. troops at a base in Iraq where insurgents' attack killed 22.
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Will put in a link to a website when they all finally wake up...
Merry Christmas rlmorel.
...and a hearty "Hoo-Yah!" for your service (by an ape that appreciates your contribution).
God bless you and Merry Christmas TK!
And SoD Rumsfeld: Sir, dear God don't quit on us now - not over these freakin queers and deviant TROLL shi*birds in America nor the un-American *TRASH* masquerading as Republicans, let alone Patriotic Jesus Freak Conservative RED, WHITE and FLIPPIN BLUE blooded American FReepers!
Merry Christmas to you right honorable sir. We've got your 6 comin and goin sir...
Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld awards a Purple Heart to Army Sgt. Chris Scott of the 1st Brigade, 25th Infantry Division, as he recuperates in a medical facility at Mosul Airfield, Iraq, on Dec. 24, 2004. Rumsfeld is in Iraq to meet with troops and thank them for their service and their sacrifice during this holiday season. DoD photo by Master Sgt. James M. Bowman, U.S. Air Force. (Released)
Merry Christmas ApesForEvolution.
BAQUBA (Reuters) - Gunmen attacked two police stations on Friday around Baquba, northeast of Baghdad, where the anti-American insurgency has been strong, witnesses said.
Fighting was still going on at the Mafraq police post on the outskirts of the religiously mixed town city. Another station south of the town was attacked earlier in the morning.
The gunmen used rocket-propelled grenades and mortars to hit the stations, witnesses said. There were no immediate reports of casualties.
Witnesses said U.S. troops were also seen fighting near the Mafraq post.
U.S. and Iraqi troops frequently come under attack in Baquba, an agricultural center between Baghdad and the Iranian border.
U.S. forces arrested scores of people in the province earlier this month whom the military said had ties with the insurgency.
A man covers his face as he stands near a burning car in Mosul. Local witnesses said gunmen attacked the car killing its occupants. Rumsfeld accused the press of reporting mainly bad news most of the time from Iraq(AFP/File/Mujahed Mohammed)
U.S. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld eats breakfast with soldiers during a visit to a military base in Mosul, December 24, 2004. Rumsfeld paid a surprise Christmas visit on Friday to troops in Mosul, scene of the deadliest attack on Americans since last year's war to oust Saddam Hussein. FOR EDITORIAL USE ONLY REUTERS/HO/US Army/Spc. Blair Larson
U.S. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld (R) speaks to soldiers with Brig. Gen. Carter Ham (C), commander of Task Force Olympia and Lt. Gen. Thomas Metz, commander of the multi-national forces in Iraq, at a military base in Mosul, December 24, 2004. Rumsfeld paid a surprise Christmas visit on Friday to troops in Mosul, scene of the deadliest attack on Americans since last year's war to oust Saddam Hussein. FOR EDITORIAL USE ONLY REUTERS/HO/US Army/Spc. Autumn Grimsley
U.S. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld (R) speaks to soldiers with Brig. Gen. Carter Ham (C), commander of Task Force Olympia and Lt. Gen. Thomas Metz, commander of the multi-national forces in Iraq, at a military base in Mosul, December 24, 2004. Rumsfeld paid a surprise Christmas visit on Friday to troops in Mosul, scene of the deadliest attack on Americans since last year's war to oust Saddam Hussein. FOR EDITORIAL USE ONLY REUTERS/HO/US Army/Spc. Blair Larson
U.S. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld presents a purple heart medal to a soldier who was wounded on Tuesday in an attack on a U.S. military installation in Mosul, December 24, 2004. Rumsfeld paid a surprise Christmas visit on Friday to troops in Mosul, scene of the deadliest attack on Americans since last year's war to oust Saddam Hussein. FOR EDITORIAL USE ONLY REUTERS/HO/US Army/Spc. Blair Larson
God bless our armed forces and Rumsfeld..The best!
He's also an incompetent..Even the Pres was reduced to imbecilic and irrelevant phrasing when backing him up the other day..Being a "nice guy" is not the top quality we should look for in national leaders. We should demand responsibility and competence. Rummy fails in both cases. He should be fired.
< and Scott Peterson learned at his feet! >
I thought it was Monica who learned at his feet...oh...you meant crying. So sorry.
Navy Intel guy 1967-1970?
http://www.nationalreview.com/hanson/hanson200412230821.asp
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The blame with this war falls not with Donald Rumsfeld. We are more often the problem — our mercurial mood swings and demands for instant perfection devoid of historical perspective about the tragic nature of god-awful war. Our military has waged two brilliant campaigns in Afghanistan and Iraq. There has been an even more inspired postwar success in Afghanistan where elections were held in a country deemed a hopeless Dark-Age relic. A thousand brave Americans gave their lives in combat to ensure that the most wicked nation in the Middle East might soon be the best, and the odds are that those remarkable dead, not the columnists in New York, will be proven right — no thanks to post-facto harping from thousands of American academics and insiders in chorus with that continent of appeasement Europe.
Out of the ashes of September 11, a workable war exegesis emerged because of students of war like Don Rumsfeld: Terrorists do not operate alone, but only through the aid of rogue states; Islamicists hate us for who we are, not the alleged grievances outlined in successive and always-metamorphosing loony fatwas; the temper of bin Laden's infomercials hinges only on how bad he is doing; and multilateralism is not necessarily moral, but often an amoral excuse either to do nothing or to do bad — ask the U.N. that watched Rwanda and the Balkans die or the dozens of profiteering nations who in concert robbed Iraq and enriched Saddam.
Donald Rumsfeld is no Les Aspin or William Cohen, but a rare sort of secretary of the caliber of George Marshall. I wish he were more media-savvy and could ape Bill Clinton's lip-biting and furrowed brow. He should, but, alas, cannot. Nevertheless, we will regret it immediately if we drive this proud and honest-speaking visionary out of office, even as his hard work and insight are bringing us ever closer to victory.
— Victor Davis Hanson is a military historian and a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University. His website is victorhanson.com.
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Prayers for all ours in Mosul." Amen..I am so glad Rummy went..
My gratitude goes out to all our servicemembers.
Me too. As I sit here I am listening to Rummy once again, one on one, with our own. We are blessed to have this man in this position at this time.
Merry Christmas.
I'm watching the videos from Rumsfeld's visit on Fox.
I'm very proud of Sec. Rumsfeld and so angry with McCain, et al....I'm also concerned by the questions asked by the troops at all of Rumsfeld's stops. They want to know if the good news in Iraq is being told back home and whether or not America has the will to see this through.
Damn the MSM's liberal bias.
Im watching too....sure looks like the troops really hate him...LOL
Are these your own thoughts too? I have not heard of a single senior military officer who has been to Iraq who would agree with Victor Hanson. The rebellion just gets stronger, moral gets lower, the Military is increasingly forced to sub-contract its duties because Dept of Defense wanted it done on the cheap. It's becoming a ridiculous situation, and expensive too. Such a waste. And as for Hanson's Rumsfeld comments where he talks of "the most wicked nation in the Middle-East", I suppose he didn't hold that view in the 1980's when Saddam was a feted friend of US policy, and even a luncheon companion of the same Mr Rumsfeld on two occasions?
Mr Hanson is speaking out of the side of his mouth. Saudi is a more "wicked" case than Iraq ever was, but he doesn't suggest invading that place (where the Al Qaeda bombers actually came from ). He even mentions 9-11 as if it had anything to do with the Iraq invasion.
He even uses the word "appeasement". He cannot be serious. In that case, Rumsfeld not only "appeased" Saddam (this at the time when he was gassing his "own people" ) he blatantly supported him.
These are of course Hanson's words...I know he is not the only one that holds them..As for past dealings with Saddam..that is history..Because we cannot do everything..we should do nothing?..I have nothing more to add..
Please read all of the article..It answers some of your questions..I doubt there is one word I could say to a man with such intimate knowledge of "senior officers".
Short term this hurts us. Long term it hurts the allegedly MS Media and their butt blossoms like Hagel, McCain etc.
Those troops are coming home to places all over the US and, when they get home, they will talk to their families and friends.
It won't get reported on, but it will keep happening in ever widening circles throughout this country. And once again the left media and their favored pols will wonder why they keep losing share and elections respectively.
Bill Kristol just made me sick on Fox..The names he threw out(ending slyly with McCain) for Secy of Defense gave me hives...He keeps harping on troops needed...and Rumsfield has said he asks what they need...One would think he planned the war alone with no input from those in charge, the military.
JackJones Dec. 6, 2004
MEG, the leftist lingo of this poster is overwhelming, old and repeatedly recycled, a proven pack of spin, distortion and outright lies.
JJ=TROLL
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