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The Donald Rumsfeld I know isn't the one you know
St. Paul Pioneer Press ^
| Nov. 12, 2006
| Douglas J. Feith
Posted on 11/12/2006 8:01:47 AM PST by rhema
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To: pollywog
Oh I think Rush and Sean reads FreeRepublic...Don't be surprised if you hear one of them read this...
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posted on
11/13/2006 3:28:56 AM PST
by
Beth528
To: James Ewell Brown Stuart
What changes in the conditions did he fail to recognize and get beyond? I think that it's pretty obvious that the "Mission Accomplished" phase ended and we moved into an occupation/nation-building phase, where our primary combat element was counterinsurgency.
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posted on
11/13/2006 5:56:58 AM PST
by
Gondring
(I'll give up my right to die when hell freezes over my dead body!)
To: Gondring
Well, yeah! And both Rumsfeld and the Army have met that counterinsurgency. So the changes did change, he recognized it, and shift tactics accordingly.
Furthermore Mission Accomplished sign for the Abraham Lincoln aircraft carrier group.
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posted on
11/13/2006 6:04:40 AM PST
by
James Ewell Brown Stuart
(Sorry, we don't want to stick around to see if we win; we'd rather vote ourselves off the island.)
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144
posted on
11/13/2006 7:28:00 AM PST
by
SJackson
( There is no threat. Communists are not about to take over our McDonald hamburger stands. John Kerry)
To: SJackson
145
posted on
11/13/2006 7:58:24 AM PST
by
Valin
(Rick Santorum 08)
To: rhema
When he told organizations to take on new missions, their instinct typical of bureaucracies was to say they needed more people and more money. Rumsfeld responded: If changes in the world require us to do new things, those changes must also allow us to curtail or end old missions that we continue for no good reason. He made numerous major changes in the Defense Department at the cost of goring a lot of oxen.***************
Rumsfeld is a true patriot. The way the MSM has treated him is shameful.
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posted on
11/13/2006 8:16:11 AM PST
by
trisham
(Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
147
posted on
11/13/2006 8:22:01 AM PST
by
listenhillary
(You can lead a man to reason, but you can't make him think)
To: rhema
148
posted on
11/13/2006 8:35:04 AM PST
by
Kay
To: 7thson; rhema
Exactly! I wondered if someone still remembered. Powell's State let the side down. Then IIRC thre was aslo plans of a exile Iraqi force to take over Baghdad? Wasn't it supposed to have been led by Ahmed Chalabi, but the CIA and the State stopped it.
Of course Chalabi may be a very dodgy character, but somehow I feel, and felt already then, that Washington political infighting was interferring with the handling of Iraq.
Anyway, an absolutely first rate post about a 100% first rate person!
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posted on
11/13/2006 12:10:36 PM PST
by
ScaniaBoy
(Part of the Right Wing Research & Attack Machine)
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150
posted on
11/13/2006 3:57:50 PM PST
by
GretchenM
(What does it profit a man to gain the whole world and lose his soul? Please meet my friend, Jesus)
To: rhema
151
posted on
11/13/2006 4:58:00 PM PST
by
SuzyQue
(Remember to think.)
To: Pukin Dog; rhema
<< Thank you for the post.
.... Iraq was invaded under the watchful eye of the embedded media (Who to the last American or subversive or traitor among them considered Secretary Rumsfeld) a rockstar. Some wanted him to be considered for the Presidency.
(Secretary Rumsfeld's) only crime was to be the smartest guy in the room. >>
Especially when only he and our erstwhile "Republican" president -- and/or Carl Rove) were the only ones there.
As was cut into steel by Secretary Rumsfeld's firing two weeks after that action might have been rationalized and justified as at least advancing the Republicans' election chances.
And was further reinforced by being chipped into granite as well by the nomination (coincidental with the awful prospect of his setting himself to adapting an amalgamation of the Baker Gang's, "Colonel" Murtha's and Charley Rangells' Iraq proposals) of Bush 41's failed CIA director!
At the time his Doctrine was promulgated, Mr Bush was likely headed for greatness. Instead of having his remains split up and well-deserved divided between the Republican Party's and History's garbage cans, which his feckless political and administrative actions have more recently reserved as his most likely destination!
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posted on
11/13/2006 7:50:16 PM PST
by
Brian Allen
("Moral issues are always terribly complex, for someone without principles." - G K Chesterton)
To: rhema
Thank you for posting this. I have nothing but the highest respect for Mr Rumsfeld. He was assaulted by the real idealogues - the leftist Move On/Michael Moore clan.
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posted on
11/13/2006 9:28:45 PM PST
by
dervish
(Rachel weeps for her children, she refuses to be consoled. Shalit, Goldwasser, Regev)
To: rhema
154
posted on
11/15/2006 12:29:33 AM PST
by
malia
(President Bush - a man of honor!! clinton as President a man of horror)
To: rhema; All
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posted on
11/15/2006 6:36:25 AM PST
by
FreeKeys
(As Dr. Milton Friedman once said, "Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.")
To: zot; The Shrew
To: Interesting Times
Thanks for the ping. I believe Donald Rumsfeld is a great man who did what needed to be done, and I'm sorry that President Bush accepted his resignation.
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posted on
11/15/2006 4:42:13 PM PST
by
zot
(GWB -- the most slandered man of this decade)
To: Interesting Times; Brian Allen
Secretary Rumsfeld's) only crime was to be the smartest guy in the room. Especially when only he and our erstwhile "Republican" president -- and/or Carl Rove) were the only ones there.
Quite pithy Brian.
Thanks for the ping.
Regards,
TS
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posted on
11/15/2006 9:41:18 PM PST
by
The Shrew
(www.swiftvets.com & www.wintersoldier.com - The Truth Shall Set YOU Free!)
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posted on
09/08/2007 5:22:12 PM PDT
by
LucyT
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