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Marines Get the News From an Iraqi Host: Rumsfeld?s Out. ?Who?s Rumsfeld??
starnewsonline ^ | 11/10/2006 | starnewsonline

Posted on 11/10/2006 8:46:33 AM PST by Dubya

For some of the young marines slogging through the war in Iraq, Donald Rumsfeld’s departure appeared to mean almost nothing.



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1 posted on 11/10/2006 8:46:35 AM PST by Dubya
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To: Dubya

I read this article.

This falls into the classification that all military people are dumbasses.

Where is that picture when you need it of the soldier flipping the bird at the news photographer as he adjusts his helmet.

Sums up how military people feel about the media.


2 posted on 11/10/2006 8:53:20 AM PST by rlmorel (The US Media...Where you get Million Dollar Words From people with a Ten Cent Fart for a brain.)
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To: Dubya
From my personal experience, it sounds fictitious...


3 posted on 11/10/2006 8:57:29 AM PST by darkwing104 (Let's get dangerous)
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To: Dubya

Back when I was in the Army, we were required to know the chain of command from LBJ down to the company first shirt. "The Honorable Robert STRANGE MacNamara" was there. (Yes, we used all three names, emphasis on the middle--we heartily despised him.)


4 posted on 11/10/2006 8:59:21 AM PST by BeHoldAPaleHorse (I dare call it treason.)
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To: BeHoldAPaleHorse

The NYT making stuff up? Would they do that?

Naaawwww.


5 posted on 11/10/2006 9:03:07 AM PST by WBL 1952
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To: Dubya
“Man, they all see us,” Lance Corporal Maguire said, and lighted another cigarette.

The media badly screws things up, so let's not all comment on the cause and effect relationship of smoking a cigarette and being seen. He probably lit up back at base and said, "They saw us, so we had to leave."

6 posted on 11/10/2006 9:03:20 AM PST by LZ_Bayonet
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To: All

There is no name on the writer of this article but after reading it I wonder what the point is. There aren't many Americans in Iraq who don't know who Rumsfield is and what he did there. Those who worked for him in the Pentagon knew he was the best of the best in his job. Many a General, tried to run the Defence Deptartment, just as some of the has been retired military tried to do during the past couple of years. Rummy is a true patriot and his loss with be felt by America. He aimed to win...the new man is yet untried, although it has been said about him that he is a talker...appeasment anyone??


7 posted on 11/10/2006 9:03:54 AM PST by cousair
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To: BeHoldAPaleHorse
Arthur: How do you do, good lady. I am Arthur, King of the Britons. Whose castle is that?

Woman: King of the who?

Arthur: The Britons.

Woman: Who are the Britons?

Arthur: Well we all are... We are all Britons... And I am your king.

(From Monty Python and the Quest for the Holy Grail.)

8 posted on 11/10/2006 9:07:27 AM PST by Steely Tom
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To: rlmorel
This one?

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9 posted on 11/10/2006 9:07:42 AM PST by tgslTakoma (Semper Fi, Dad. I miss you.)
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To: rlmorel
Now that I think about it, this soldier was flipping off the bastard who shot him.

Upon further thought, the bastard who shot him is not much different than the majority of the media, who also snipe at our soldiers regularly.

10 posted on 11/10/2006 9:10:22 AM PST by tgslTakoma (Semper Fi, Dad. I miss you.)
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To: Dubya
It sounds like a reporter failed to pick up on some military humor. "Who's Rumsfeld," indeed. Of course, what do you expect from a reporter who fails to capitalize Marine or Corps?
11 posted on 11/10/2006 9:12:18 AM PST by Caesar Soze
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To: WBL 1952

"The NYT making stuff up?"

I assume the Times, and this reporter, want us to believe that they are the true champions of the serviceman and woman. In point of fact, the Times hasn't supported their efforts from day one. It is highly disingenuous of the Times, and this reporter, to pose as latter day Ernie Pyles.


12 posted on 11/10/2006 9:17:31 AM PST by popdonnelly
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To: tgslTakoma
Upon further thought, the bastard who shot him is not much different than the majority of the media, who also snipe at our soldiers regularly.


I am in the middle of reading the Vanity Fair article about the Marines who are charged with murder in Haditha. My blood is boiling not just at the article but what our government has done to these heroes. They keep sending young men to fight guerrilla warfare with conventional methods and then want to persecute our heroes. It's disgusting! All I have to say is that those Marines better be acquitted.
13 posted on 11/10/2006 9:26:36 AM PST by LoudRepublicangirl (loudrepublicangirl)
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To: tgslTakoma

Absolutely!!!!

The one I was thinking of had a bunch of guys taking what looked like a short break, sitting on the ground, and one guy had his hand grasping the front left side of his helmet as he looked down and away from the photographer, his middle finger was extended up the side of his helmet.

Unmistakable, there.

I detest the media in all of its forms.


14 posted on 11/10/2006 9:39:22 AM PST by rlmorel (The US Media...Where you get Million Dollar Words From people with a Ten Cent Fart for a brain.)
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To: LZ_Bayonet

I picked up on that as well. It didn't seem likely he would be sitting up somewhere scanning or looking at insurgents as he lights a cigarette.

Unless they didn't care if the insurgents saw them.


15 posted on 11/10/2006 9:41:00 AM PST by rlmorel (The US Media...Where you get Million Dollar Words From people with a Ten Cent Fart for a brain.)
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To: WBL 1952

I would guess it is a soldiers' way of telling a traitor posing as a "journalist" to pound sand.


16 posted on 11/10/2006 4:12:21 PM PST by Texas Chilli
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To: BeHoldAPaleHorse

We were also required to know the chain of command but as far as a Secretary of Defense being replaced, it meant nothing to us.


17 posted on 11/10/2006 4:14:32 PM PST by SwankyC
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To: Dubya
There are almost no schools, he said. There is almost no medicine. There is little food, and no electricity except from generators. The list went on. No water. No work. Violence. Abductions. Beheadings. Explosions...In Baghdad, he said, Iranian-backed death squads were killing Sunni citizens. The country was falling apart. “You like freedom?” he asked the sergeant. “This kind? This way?”

That's the problem. You've got to have safety & security first. Someone needs to see that.

18 posted on 11/10/2006 4:42:31 PM PST by Amelia (If we hire them, they will come...)
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