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- DigDugDigger, on 10/12/2007, -4/+88This isn't a right or left issue, this is an American issue. People are dying.
- Drahknon, on 10/12/2007, -4/+78Politics? If I'd asked the man in charge of a bungled war and reconstruction to tell me what the *****'s going on, I'd expect a ***** answer. I'd say it's high time he stopped whatever he's "busy" with... for good.
- NinjAlt, on 10/12/2007, -12/+75I've had it. I'm going to snap. Go ***** your self you right wing religious nut conservative with your bush loving dicksucking. God. I really cant take you people anymore. Say liberal one more time so I can bitch slap your stupid ass accross your stupid ***** face with your god damn bitch tactics.
- Drahknon, on 10/12/2007, -3/+54Well, for one thing, attacks and violence have increased by orders of magnitude since he last testified. We're talking about an average of 100 civilian deaths per day at this point. Additionally, there are reports of rampant corruption, more troops called up, the Haditha revelations and the recent buildup of troops in Baghdad.
I'd say quite a lot has changed, and the ASC has the right to call up military leaders to answer for those facts. The ASC gives a ***** because when things go wrong, they are the ones responsible for oversight.
In addition, the Armed Services Committee is a bipartisan committee controlled by the majority party, the Republicans. The request came, in part, from its REPUBLICAN committee chairman, Senator John Warner. You don't have to be a liberal to see that the Iraq campaign is spiraling out of control, if it ever was under control. The only "spin" here is from know-nothings like you who relentlessly shill for the administration while we spend blood and treasure on a fruitless boondoggle abroad. - Daiken, on 10/12/2007, -4/+48Rumsfeld should be thrown in jail.
- scoot87, on 10/12/2007, -5/+43Let the man do his job? He hasn't been doing his job for the entire time he's been in the Bush administration.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -4/+41One of our servicemen every ten hours at present, and the party with 100% of the power in government is too cowardly to "change the course."
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -3/+38And that was sarcasm, I should add. Thank you.
- dagonweb, on 10/12/2007, -4/+36Ahhh your leaders are unaccountable now too? That is a funny way to conduct a democracy. Well, judging from this example countries like Iraq - and a lot of other countries in the middle east - will shake their heads in agreement and implement "the same level of demcratic accountability".
I have NEVER seen such a disgraceful state of affairs. - joeshlub, on 10/12/2007, -3/+35NinjAlt, I second that motion. It's about god damn time people stopped tacking liberal onto everything and act like it's a bad thing. News Flash: Liberals founded this ***** country. Liberals make progress.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+33Drahkon -- it's only $8 billion a month, or according to the Congressional Research Service, expected to exceed $320 billion. Really, just chickenfeed to the brainwashed Republican masses.
Why do you hate America, you darn terrorist lover you? - OBKenobi, on 10/12/2007, -2/+33"Rumsfeld Says He's Too Busy To Testify On Iraq War"
Is Rumsfeld too busy to go to jail?
He hasn't done a very good job in Afghanistan, Iraq, or the Pentagon. What do we need him for?
I think he's full of hot air; a Dick Halliburton lackey that helps them get no-bid contracts via the military. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -8/+39@silentdud, "Every cry that some liberal Democrat makes"
You tell them Dud! "Oh no. The war isn't going as planned. Oh no, there's a Downing Street Memo. Oh no, thousands of Americans dying! Oh no, we were misled!"
Who cares you stupid libs! Ha ha, stupid liberals. - Toon, on 10/12/2007, -3/+31Guys, cut him some slack. He is very busy. He has to keep shooing the kids off his lawn by shaking his cane at them.
Also, don't forget, while being a Harbinger of Death has its perks (awesome costume, flexible hours), it does not pay well. He works a night job as a guy who gets mumbles things under his breath at the old lady next to him who keeps beating him at Bingo. - scoot87, on 10/12/2007, -2/+28We need Colbert to run the investigation.
- theoallardyce, on 10/12/2007, -4/+28Only the left actually give a ***** about people dying and Americas image being shot to pieces by retarded red-neck grunts who shoot injured Iraqis infront of Fox news cameras and then 20 minutes later do an interview to camera saying "I dun shot him and it felt like woah awesome!"
Only the left care that billions of dollars has been spent on this war for no apparent gain except that one burnt-out dictator has been taken out of business while 20 more worse people are still around and half a country has been made unstable.
Only the left care that the Middle East is being fueled entirely on Iraq and Israel as a massive motivation against America, only the left care that reliance on Saudi oil is going to come and bite America on the ass.
The real fact is, only the left care about the real world - the right only care about how many ***** plasma screens their Churches can buy and who should be allowed to get married - the right do not constitute a government. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -4/+27@Mrkamikaze
People, people. Let's just all agree that no one in congress or the white house or the senate gives a *****. Otherwise why would we be in this mess. - UGM2099, on 10/12/2007, -0/+22Rumsfeld does about-face on testifying >
Defense secretary WILL face Senate panel over Iraq policies
http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/08/02/rumsfeld.ap/index.html - ne0shell, on 10/12/2007, -3/+24I guess he was too busy in secret meetings with defense contractors handing out no bid contracts to Cheney's wife. Or maybe he was helping Condi pick out shoes...
What an ***** - he's the worst thing to happen to the military since don't ask don't tell.... - dagonweb, on 10/12/2007, -3/+19I've had it. The United States is split apart into two halves, and I sure as hell don't like one half.
The US ringwingers, republicans and neocons are no longer democratic. They are a parasytical element in Society and they are openly, brazenly dedicated to fascist values. I am not exaggerating - we know people like that in europe very well : N A Z I ' s.
PLEASE get rid of these people. Start a revolution as soon as possible. This will lead to civil war ! - hodyoaten, on 10/12/2007, -3/+18Why can't we just call a spade a spade and proclaim a dictatorship? No more shenanigans, everyone goes back to watching American Idol, and the administration pushes its agenda through more quickly.
- justhim, on 10/12/2007, -8/+23I second that Daiken
- skoles, on 10/12/2007, -2/+17Rumsfelds secret is that he constantly walks around the office with a folder filled with papers & a look of "I'm on a mission" face.
Congress comes up to him (yes, all of them) and is like "Hey, think you gotta moment to talk about..." and Rummy just mutters and points to the papers with a look of being in a rush as he ducks into a broom closet leaving Congress with a dumbfounded look. - joeshlub, on 10/12/2007, -2/+17If this 'democracy' is going to survive, something is going to have to happen. Right now with bush we have an 8 year theocracy already.
- OBKenobi, on 10/12/2007, -1/+14We need a ***** nuke dropped on these crooks! (Metaphorically-speaking)
How much is it going to take? Do Americans not know what should be done?
Conduct public hearings, and let's get this info out in the open. If the mainstream learns the extent of the crimes that have been committed against them by the Bush administration and their corporate lackies, they will storm the ***** White House!
Yes, it is THAT bad. We're not talking about some minor crime like Nixon's coverups, this is a crime of unprecedented proportions. Literally, the worst in the history of the US! Never have we had so much tax revenue embezzled and diverted without accountability! Billions of dollars!
Notice, I have said nothing yet about the false claims that led us to the Iraq war, or the warcrimes committed afterwards.
They are not going to get away with this. I do not believe that the people of America are this cowardly and gullible to let them go free.
Or are they? Are you, America?
Bush is right about one thing: freedom must be fought for and protected.
"The price of freedom is eternal vigilance." - Thomas Jefferson - nefty, on 10/12/2007, -2/+15Most people wouldn't beleive it even if they did come out and say they've taken over the country. "Breaking News: America now a dictatorsh-" Hey change the channel, American Idol is on!
- pushmouse, on 10/12/2007, -3/+16That was fast. The douche-bag must have been hanging out here on digg and picked up on the negative vibe.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+10The saddest thing is, the sarcasm post-script was necessary to definitively differentiate this from a genuine know-nothing conservative. The far-right cannot be parodied, because no matter what you say, an actual Republican (much to the chagrin of reasonable Republicans, mind you) has probably said something just as absurd.
Just see www.fstdt.com (fundies say the darndest things) for some disturbing examples. - SupaFupa, on 10/12/2007, -2/+11Its not like these thugs face consequences for anything they've ever done. How can you hold any power over these guys when they never have and never will be held accountable for anything?
- fantasticFlan, on 10/12/2007, -1/+10"SAVAGE NATION!"
Kind of hard to maintain credibility when promoting the guy MSNBC fired for telling a caller to "get AIDS and die." - OBKenobi, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9There is one way, that's to impose a state of emergency.
Unlikely, but CAN be done.
They used to say that Clinton was going to do it. Instead it seems Bush used the same idea after 9/11 to at least get two terms of dictatorial control.
Think back to how terrified anyone was to speak out against Bush shortly after 9/11 and the Anthrax attacks.
It's funny how that Anthrax was sent to Daschle and Leahy; two people that did speak out against the Patriot Act. It was passed days later... - romeohifi, on 10/12/2007, -2/+10Too busy making money on the tax payer's cost. Support our troops and vote Mr.Bush and his group out of the office.
- REALLYTANGY, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9If "they" are Liberals, then what does that make "you"? Neo-conservatives? Oh, and BTW, the next time "you" try to spin the term Liberal please think of Abraham Lincoln, remember him? He was the Liberal Republican US President that wrote the Emancipation Proclamation, that is unless abolishing slavery was wrong.
- NSMike, on 10/12/2007, -6/+13There IS a reply link. It's how my comment ended up under and indented from yours.
- brickbat, on 10/12/2007, -4/+11I disagree strongly. They give a ***** - just not about the things importasnt to us. They give a ***** about maintaining power, robbing us and future generations blind, killing the environment, watching everything we do, turning the internet into the shopping channel, etc, etc. They are passionate about these things.
- FlaG8r, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8How would America really be served by listening to Rumsfeld another time? Seriously, if you want the truth about the Iraq war is Rumsfeld the right source?
- totorototoro, on 10/12/2007, -3/+10He's busy searchin for those WMDs?
- OBKenobi, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7You know he asked to resign over a year ago, but Bush told him to stay.
At least, that's what he claimed. Bush didn't deny it. - geronimo, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7If I told the people who give me my paycheck, "I'm too busy to report to you"... well I wouldn't do that, I'd get fired, rightfully so.
Rumsfeld reports to Americans, we give him his paycheck. Looks like he forgot that. It's a good thing he works in government, anywhere else he'd be canned. - Bakkhai42, on 10/12/2007, -2/+7OMG! Right on.
Bush Administration... Worst ever. - dagonweb, on 10/12/2007, -2/+7This man knows he failed.
- AnotherBrian, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Re: bigdavediode
ONLY $8 Billion a MONTH. What have we ever spent $8 Billion per MONTH for 3 YEARS on? WW2?
This actually brings up a good point. I have yet to hear any inflation adjusted comparisons between this Iraq conflict (NOT WW3) and WW2. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5Hey thanks for your permission. Jackass.
- DangerMouse9, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5Yes, leave him alone, hold the hearing without him, and let him face whatever decision is made since he is not there to represent himself.
What would happen the average Joe tried to pull the same crap? Rummy should face the same consequences. I don't care if you're Jesus, Budda, Allah, Kali, Anibus, Zeus, Cthulhu, etc. himself, no one is above the law. - kolywater, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5i agree, ninjaAlt. adding the word 'liberal' to an argument or rebuttal completely invalidates any worthwhile point the poster may have had (clearly not the case with the parent, he's just a troll). the word liberal has no effective meaning now, and only serves to discredit its disseminator.
- zediker, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3@OBKenobi: Ok, while i know the dems are itching to send indictments flying, they are still the minority party in the US congress. Meaning that even if they wanted to do something, chances are they will cause a party-line vote, in which they would immediatly loose because they are the minority party.
Dont expect to see anything really happen until the US 2006 elections take place, where I expect most of the republican incumbants to loose their seats, at least in the contested disricts. - NerdyNinja, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4404 Not Found.
- Srezic, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Hey Kenobi, you mind posting a link to support that? I would be interested in reading about it.
Thanks mate. - Altotus, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4Re: AnotherBrian
The US spent $288 billion USD on WWII, and I believe inflation adjusted, that would be about $2 trillion USD. Of course, at that time we had 16 million soldiers engaged as opposed to 150,000 in Iraq. And, WWII saw about 62 million people die (about 290 thousand US), or about 2.5% of the world population at the time. There's no official estimate on Iraqi casualties, military casualties are estimated between 10,000 and 12,000 and 40,000 civilians have been killed per adding up body counts in incidents reported in the media (though, statistical sampling shows a much higher civilian death rate) -- the real fact is nobody has a good count, it's just a big number. The US has lost about 3,000 in combat and an estimated 12,000 more from "other" causes.
Iraq has been cheaper (at $300 billion, not counting reconstruction or military efforts elsewhere), we'll employ about 1% as many soldiers as WWII, but the modern soldiers are about 6x more likely to get killed. However, the $5.8 million per-kill expenditure for Iraq is much higher than WWII. - DaveRocks, on 10/12/2007, -4/+7Wow
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