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- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -6/+26He did bungle it. He was and is incompetent. His incompetence has lead to scores of dead US troops and thousands of dead Iraqi civilians. He should have been removed months ago, if not in 2004.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -5/+18It's upsetting you know; these stories are all over the mainstream news every single day--which is what we all wanted back when we were jumping out of the backs of fake icecream trucks to photographically document the horrors here in the USA when the mainstream media would not--yet every day Bush's approval rating rises.
Its almost as if the American people don't care what sort of job hes doing, as long as hes smiling. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9"Today's stunt may rile up the liberal base, but it won't kill a single terrorist or prevent a single attack," Sen. Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., said in a statement. He called Rumsfeld an "excellent secretary of defense."
How many terrorist does Mr. McConnell kill a day? This mans way of thinking is absurd. From the sound of things over there Rumsfeld is making more terrorist then he is killing. Why do people still respect this man? - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -3/+10Yeah. You'll have leave to address me, sir, when you've caught a baton in the face for taking a picture of a cop breaking the jaw of a 10 year old girl who was trying to keep her father from going to jail. Until then, out of my sight and out of my mind.
- nfulton, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6Here's a link to soldiers talking about the Iraq war. They don't sound too enthusiastic about it . . . http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RN5Lu94l_E0
- clyde2801, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6I imagine that there's a lot of CURRENT military officers who are now criticizing Rumfield's approach-when they're not dodging bullets, mortars and IED's.
- enki25, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5A Democratic hearing is the only venue they have available to voice criticisms like this.
You've heard troops talk about how great Rumsfeld is? Sound like a lie, but nevertheless, the troops aren't the ones working with Rumsfeld, are they? If anyone is credible to comment on Rumsfeld's performance, it's the people who reported to him. - rblinne, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5The philosopher and historian Francis Schaefer noted that without Christian presuppositions a society oscillates between tyranny and anarchy -- and anarchy doesn't last very long. Iraq is yet another example -- another is the Balkans -- of how this is true. By failing to "impose" American-style democracy on Iraq like we did with Japan we got Iranian-style democracy and the resultant failures.
This wasn't a military failiure. Rather, it is was a civilian and political one. In this case, it wasn't Rummy who erred but the President who wrongly assumed that Iraq shares our presuppositions and the universal yearning for liberty naturally produces a stable government. It was a noble idea, but unfortunately mistaken. Because this is the root of the problem, adding or withdrawing troops will not solve it. The best we can do is to pressure al-Malaki to cut off the militias and route out corruption. - ichbinladen, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Remember when there was much ado about Republican women thinking Rumsfeld was hot and manly? That tells you a LOT about the rightwing, right there.
- steinbeckgirl, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3@right75- Democrats don't have to make him look mad. He does a good job doing that himself.
@ichbinladen- Republican women thinking Rummy hot and manly? My first thought was condescending idiot, and don't forget pussy. I believe Rumsfield subscribes to the "just-world hypothesis." (Lerner,1980) Although invalid, it is used to justify cruelty. - opencad, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5Its almost as if we live in two countries that share different values but the same physical space. There's the pro-torture, the pro-bomb Iraq for no good reason, the who needs civil liberties crowd . . . and there are the more backward US citizens who don't understand how torture, murder and dictatorship got to be the law of the land.
- enki25, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2@pickypg
Your brother huh? Sure. But to reiterate, are soldiers like your imaginary brother really the best people to judge the performance of the Secretary of Defense? They don't work with him, 99% of them have probably never seen him in real life. Soldiers who 'love' him probably just do it because they think it's part of their patriotic duty. - OBKenobi, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Where's Lakawak and Helix400 to defend their hero?
- pickypg, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I'm shocked you were buried. Really, I am. About as shocked that this "news" got more than 1 digg.
- pickypg, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2@Wartyboskfapped
How is looking at history and drawing correlating conclusions racist? Especially when the truth is that people from all over the Middle East are the ones causing all the trouble in Iraq; not just Iraqis. - JoanWest, on 12/13/2008, -0/+1Donald Rumsfeld and the other Chicago Boys now known as Chicago Thugs are terrorists rather than patriots. Reminds me of this article, A Country Hijacked, http://reno.broowaha.com/article.php?id=4170.
As that author, Morgana, http://reno.broowaha.com/profile.php?id=2434 wrote, “It has been proven, repeatedly, that monetarism, tax cuts for the wealthy and corporations, the rise of the military including private military, deregulation, a war economy, government cuts in social issues, all inevitably result in financial crisis. The “magic of the free marketplace” does NOT generate growth and prosperity for all, as it is NOT a rising tide. The free marketplace is a predator that aggressively and relentlessly seeks to reallocates profit only to the corporation’s managers, and debt only to governments. Corporations, now exposed for what they are, predators, now even treat debt as an externality that should be passed on to government. “
Treason is defined as a violation of allegiance to one’s country, or by acting to overthrow government. Synonyms for treason are disloyalty, treachery, dishonesty, sedition and disaffection. Synonyms for violation are transgression, infraction, infringement, breach, misbehavior, contradiction, thwarting, counteraction, opposition, and contravention. Synonyms for allegiance are faithfulness, loyalty, devotion, fidelity, constancy, duty, trust, trustworthiness, obligation, stability, and fealty. Synonyms for government are bureaucracy and a system of administration. The act of governing is managing, overseeing and supervising. Synonyms for overthrow are destruction, upset, undermine, ruin, crush, displace, disperse, demolish, overturn, subvert, and abolish.
There is A Rise of Treason In America. Corporationism Rules Or The Dog Gets It, http://reno.broowaha.com/article.php?id=4265
Donald Rumsfeld was a student of economist Milton Friedman and what was once know as The Chicago Boys but has come to be known as The Chicago Thugs. Rumsfeld bet the future on plagues. Richard “Dick” Cheney, was an early student of Donald Rumsfeld during the American President Ford’s administration. As Secretary of Defense under American President George H.W. Bush, Cheney bet the future on war, and a private sector McMilitary. Today Cheney’s treasonous bet is known as Blackwater and Haliburton.
On September 10, 2001, CNN Evening News had a story titled “Defense Secretary Declares War on the Pentagon’s Bureaucracy.” That morning, then U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld had described Pentagon employees as enemies of America, the Pentagon as a grave threat to America and declared war on the Pentagon, the institution he had taken an oath of allegiance to.
The Pentagon’s staff, highly educated, trained and experienced in America’s national defense, had devoted their entire careers to defending America. The Pentagon’s staff had successfully defended America, most notably from the Communist Soviet Union. They were now listening to the most extraordinary, and devastating to America, speech ever given by a U.S. Defense Secretary. A speech that violated that U.S. Defense Secretary oath of allegiance to his office and his country. Donald Rumsfeld had gone public with his treason and that he was a domestic terrorist with interests hostile to America and the U.S. government he was now paid to be an effective functioning part of.
Then U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld was not looking to save American’s their tax dollars. Nor was he looking to defend America. Nor was he looking to do the job he was getting paid by American taxpayers to do, that being to govern. He wasn’t even interested in his oath of allegiance. Donald Rumsfeld violated his oath to obey and uphold the U.S. Constitution, which clearly defines America’s national security as the duty of the U.S. government. Then treasonous U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, now an open domestic terrorist, ordered every U.S. Department of Defense and Pentagon department immediately slashed by 15 percent while demanding from the U.S. Congress an overall 11 percent Department of Defense budget increase. He then unconstitutionally and treasonously privatized America’s national defense.
One of the then Pentagon employees described their, and the rest of the audiences, reaction to then U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld’s staff meeting speech that morning. “He was saying we were the enemy, that the enemy was us.”
Then U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld’s unconstitutional and treasonous actions were lost in the shock and horror of America’s 9.11. 125 Pentagon employees were killed, 110 seriously injured. That’s 235 patriotic Americans that 24 hours earlier, their boss and now traitor to America, Donald Rumsfeld, had maliciously branded as enemies of America.
Traitors Donald Rumsfeld, George W. Bush and Richard Cheney had all declared and made it clear they believed that the job of government, that they were being paid by Americans’ tax dollars to do, was no longer to govern. The horrifying results were the evisceration of the American military, and the rise of a private police force. That rise of a private police force is funded with American taxpayer’s dollars. That unconstitutional private police force is the treasonous Blackwater, a for-profit multi-national corporation that believes it is not accountable to American taxpayers that fund them nor the American Congress nor any American laws, nor even other country’s laws. - 4answer2, on 10/12/2007, -4/+5It's not necessarily that Ronald Dumbsfeld bungled it, it was basically undoable from the start. The (mostly) unemployed religious fanatics in the middle east love to band together to repel foreigners. Just like they've done in the past. As they are doing now.
There is no way Iraq will have the type of freedom we enjoy in the states and a democratic style of government after the US pulls out. - pickypg, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2@enki25
Sounds like a lie? Only to an uninformed moron.
My brother is in the USMC and has been to Iraq and is preparing to go back again, and loves Rumsfeld.
Sure, he does not love going over to Iraq, or even being there, but who loved going to Europe in WW1 and WW2? Personally, I'd be afraid of anyone that did. There is a difference between loving your time over there, and serving over there. - illynova, on 10/12/2007, -13/+14Well, what did you expect? I mean - these are retired military officers going to a democratic hearing!
No that I don't agree, but still. Use some common sense. - deesnutz, on 10/12/2007, -3/+4These retired military officers are true heroes (just like our troops fighting this war). For they are standing together to question this ***** war. A war that no American soldier deserves to lose their life over. A war based on continued lies from this Bush administration. Our honorable soldiers are dying for a dishonorable president and his staff. Shame on you. Their blood is on your hands and live with that as you go and pretend to be a cowboy on your make believe ranch.
- steinbeckgirl, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3@yttrx-He's not smiling, he's smirking.
- satipip, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1In digg.com, please search "jesse ventura" and digg his opinion on 9/11
- mydigglogin, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2Dugg down. Cite sources instead of rehashing conspiracy theories.
- aceg1357, on 10/12/2007, -4/+3liberal think
during a time of war all military who criticize the bush administration are heroes
but a reporter asking clinton if he did enough to connect the dots is a biased monkey. - right75, on 10/12/2007, -7/+5Of course they're going to say that at a Democratic hearing. These people have an ax to grind. I've heard troops who have been there (to Iraq, etc) say the opposite.
Sounds like another lame attempt to make Rumsfeld look bad. - DesScorp, on 10/12/2007, -7/+2Wow, criticism of the administration at a Democratic hearing....wow, I mean, that never happens...
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -9/+3Racist, much?
- HarryBauzonia, on 10/12/2007, -14/+3....as if the democrats would assemble a bunch of grouchy retirees who agree with Rumsfeld. Yeah. That probably wouldn't suit their agenda.
Non-news propaganda. - HarryBauzonia, on 10/12/2007, -15/+3It's almost as if the American people have sense enough to see through the spin, the lies, and the half-truths your kind spreads.
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