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Hello FreeRepublic Posters, I want to ask a question that I am sure at least a few of you will have the REAL information on , but I have not seen it posted here. It concerns this issue about the families of those who lost thier loved ones while Bravely serving in the Armed Service and defending Our Country receiving letters of condolence form our Governement officials. It is still a sensitive topic in our house due to the lose of my sister's ex-husband, ( my ex-brother-in-law and a good friend ) ,who lost his life a litle over 2...

[I am so glad Jack Kelly wrote this defense of Donald Rumsfeld – and I am so disgusted at the sudden torrent of Republican criticism of him. Donald Rumsfeld is one of the most heroic figures in the world today, and America is fortunate in the extreme to have him as Secretary of Defense. The temerity of Clueless Bill Kristol of the Weekly Standard, professional jerk Senator John McCain, and Senator Trent “Vacant” Lott, calling for him to resign is squalid and shameful. Secretary Rumsfeld deserves our deepest appreciation, admiration, and support. He certainly has that from the vast majority...

Rumsfeld Offers to Scrap MX 2 Years Early By Joel Skousen/My Favorite Headache In a move that promises to shift the US window of vulnerability to a Russian nuclear strike two years earlier, the Bush administration, led by Sec. of Defense Donald Rumsfield, is offering to do what Bill Clinton could never get away with--dismantle our premiere nuclear missile system, the MX "Peacekeeper," next year, instead of by the end of 2003. The MX is a crucial factor in the balance of nuclear deterrence for several reasons and should not be dismantled. First, it is our only missile armed with...

ARLINGTON, Va. — Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld was “not embarrassed” by tough questions from troops Wednesday about the lack of armored vehicles in Iraq and other issues, Pentagon officials said Wednesday. Rather, such tough questions are the norm for the secretary when he meets with troops, Pentagon spokesman Lawrence Di Rita told Pentagon reporters. Rumsfeld received a very pointed question about the lack of armored vehicles in Iraq by Army Spc. Thomas Wilson during a “town meeting” at Camp Buehring, Kuwait, on Wednesday. “Why do we soldiers have to dig through local landfills for pieces of scrap metal and compromised...

CAMP BUEHRING, Kuwait — In a rare public airing of grievances, disgruntled soldiers complained to Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld (search) on Wednesday about long deployments and a lack of armored vehicles and other equipment. "You go to war with the Army you have," Rumsfeld replied, "not the Army you might want or wish to have."

Defense Agency Director General Yoshinori Ono on Friday told U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld that the government was considering relaxing Japan's three principles governing arms exports to advance joint research on a missile defense system. "We are studying the three principles of arms exports from a viewpoint of operating Japan-U.S. security arrangements effectively," Ono told Rumsfeld during a meeting in Washington. The principles were adopted in 1967 by the administration of the late Prime Minister Eisaku Sato, and specified three categories of countries to which Japan would not export arms: communist countries, countries under a U.N. embargo and countries involved...

WASHINGTON (AP) - A Pentagon official accused by a leading Senate Democrat of deceiving Congress about intelligence on Iraq's pre-war links to the al-Qaida terrorist network says the dispute is based on a misunderstanding that could have been avoided if he had been asked to explain. In a letter to Sen. Carl Levin of Michigan, the senior Democrat on the Senate Armed Services Committee, Douglas Feith laid out in detail his handling of CIA reports on the Iraq-al-Qaida relationship and denied that he ignored corrections requested by the CIA when he gave a summary of the reports to Congress in...

AL ASAD AIR BASE, Iraq - The United States may be able to reduce its troop levels in Iraq after the January elections if security improves and Iraqi government forces continue to expand and improve, Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld said Sunday. In a question-and-answer session with hundreds of Marines assembled in a concrete-line aircraft hangar at this desert air base in western Iraq, Rumsfeld was asked what the future holds for the length and frequency of troop deployments in the country. Rumsfeld, on his first visit to Iraq since its interim government was installed in June, said the insurgent...

U.S. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld didn't bring much good news to a group of Marines in Iraq. He warned Sunday during a town-hall meeting in at an airbase in the country's west that violence may well increase as Iraq moves towards its January elections. However, he also offered a possibility that most soldiers would love to come true -- rotation home. "Our hope is that as we build up Iraqi forces we will be able to relieve the stress on our forces and see a reduction in coalition forces over some period of time, probably post-Iraqi election. But again,...

WASHINGTON - Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld denounced the Chechen attack on a Russian school in which more than 400 people were killed as part of a global struggle with extremists. "There really are no free passes in this struggle, this war," Rumsfeld said Tuesday. "No free passes for countries, no free passes for individuals." But the State Department, while joining in condemnation of last week's attack, said Russia ultimately must hold political talks with rebellious Chechen leaders who are determined to break away from the Russian Federation. Stepping around an angry declaration by Russian President Vladimir Putin ruling...

I don't know the position of this publication, although I can guess, but I really like these. I know it's done to make fun, but I think it's cool. Go Rumsfield! Bigmack

While scanning memepool.com, I saw a link to "The Bush Game" a fairly crude flash game and a blantant example of the dirty tricks the Rats are going to pull. . .and, at the very end. . . John Kerry is the hero, and it even opens up Johnkerry.com. . . What depths will they sink to, next ? I suggest we Slashdot 'em: use as much of their bandwidth as we can, and cost 'em money. . .

Democrats howling for the resignation of Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld for not informing them of reports of prisoner abuse in Baghdad are ignoring the fact that concerned parents of an accused soldier informed 16 members of Congress - top Democrats such as Senators Hillary Clinton, Edward Kennedy and John D. Rockefeller - and the governor of West Virginia of the burgeoing scandal as far back as February 26th of this year. None of these 17 people acted to disclose the detailed information contained in the letters. While the media has created a firestorm about the abuse allegations at Abu...

Why Iraq Is Becoming Vietnam Liberals have long dreamed of turning our occupation of Iraq into another Vietnam, a scar on the face of America that they could revel in. I believe in many ways, they are succeeding. Their latest victory is their success in turning incidents of prisoner abuse at Abu Ghraib prison into an indictment of American foreign policy and the President. Our Defense Secretary was dragged before a motley group of Senatorial inquisitors, many of whom don’t have the moral standing to tie his shoe, much less interrogate him. The “scandal” is the Mai Lai massacre to...

The Price of Freedom in Iraq By DONALD H. RUMSFELD ASHINGTON This week, as we mark the one-year anniversary of the beginning of Operation Iraqi Freedom, it is useful to recount why we have fought. Not long ago I visited South Korea, just as the Korean government was debating whether to send troops to Iraq. In Seoul, I was interviewed by a Korean journalist who was almost certainly too young to have firsthand recollection of the Korean War. She asked me, "Why should Koreans send their young people halfway around the globe to be killed or wounded in Iraq?" As...

New Army Brigade Plan is Dangerous Following his unprecedented and premature retirement of 47 U.S. Army generals and with his installation of hand-picked replacements to lead the U.S. Army nearly completed, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld is on the verge of moving full bore to begin implementing long-planned reforms, including the complete elimination of the Army's division-based force structure. Rumsfeld and his hand-picked replacement as Army Chief of Staff, Gen. Peter Schoomaker, plan to replace it with a force structure based on dismounted infantry-centric mini-brigade units consisting of about 1,800 men - each of which will be more optimized to...

U.S. Defense Secretary Rumsfeld is considering a plan for multi-pronged attacks on insurgency strongholds in such countries as Lebanon and Somalia. U.S. defense sources said the proposal is part of a plan for an expanded offensive against Al Qaida and affiliated terrorist organizations. Over the last six months, the Pentagon has increased the U.S. military presence along the Iraqi-Syrian border to halt the flow of Islamic insurgents into Iraq. U.S. officials said American troops and helicopters have fought the insurgents along the Syrian border and in several cases entered Syrian air space and territory. Next week, U.S. troops are scheduled...

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“I Apologize for Telling the Truth” Exclusive commentary by Patrick Rooney Oct 20, 2003 Army Lt. General William G. Boykin, the new U.S. deputy secretary for intelligence, apologized to his critics Friday for offending Muslims, after reportedly making some absolutely outrageous assertions, like Islamists hate the United States because it’s a Christian nation, that the real enemy is not Osama bin Laden but Satan, and that God put President Bush in the White House. These statements are outrageous… aren’t they? Let’s look at ‘em: 1. “Islamists hate the United States because it’s a Christian nation.” Sounds good to me. 2....