RUMSFELD UNDER FIRE(Wesley Clark has accused Rumsfeld of putting troops at risk )

SKY NEWS ^ | 03/26/2003 | SKYNEWS

[dennisw]

The concern from my vantage point Gramps is the same reality that plays out in Israel.....Israels neighbours are treacherous,they allow all manner of assets and weapons to cross their borders in the 24hr machination of destroying the Jewish state.

Such as the Rafah refugee camp where Rachel Corrie met the bulldozer. Egypt does nothing to stop Egyptian arms smuggling into Rafah camp then into Gaza. Egyptian authorities are very happy to see this happening.

[ArneFufkin]

Thanks. George W. Bush is the most decisive, focused and effective man to hold this highest American office in my lifetime. He's a greater President than even Reagan IMO.

Bill Clinton and the individuals who served in his Administration are nothing short of a corrupt and traitorous disgrace. Bush was left with an economy and fraudulent dot-com stock orgy in freefall, a domestic and foreign intelligence infrastructure in malevolant neglect, a devestating betrayal of vital national security technology, property and intelligence to Chinese and Russian enemies, cynical corruption of our immigration controls, ill-intended last minute Executive Orders singularly designed to sabotauge, obstruct and marginalize the new POTUS. Clinton is a despicable traitor amd mobster. Nixon was a boy scout compared to this guy.

Bush is putting it back together, piece by piece, priority by priority in a cool, methodical and disciplined manner. It had to be the Pentagon, CIA and FBI first. Getting nominal control of a stolen Senate. Conducting a war against terror and its sponsors. Fortifying the security of our homeland. Loudly proclaiming our soverign, American prerogative and negating the slide into a global cesspool the Clinton scum embraced.

Bush has better people around him than did Reagan. They are a team with clear objectives and open input. Bush is a more effective manager of his people and processes than was Reagan. W is better for our security and prospects at this juncture than Reagan would have been. He's more focused, disciplined and decisive. And, unlike his father ... he's taking names now and if he survives the next election, payback WILL be a bitch to those who have taken advantage of his commitment to be apolitical and non-confrontational domestically in a time of war and national peril.

He's the right guy at the right time, as were Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln, Roosevelt, Kennedy and Reagan. We are historically lucky the voters of south Florida are dumb as dirt. Gore would stil be messing around with U.N. resolutions and blue beret rent-a-cops standing mindlessly in Kabul. And the terrorists would have hit us again.

[tm22721]

One CIA operative or Delta Force soldier with a laser can do more efficient damage painting B-2, F-117 or Tomahawk targets than 10 Abrams tanks on the streets of Damascus

I agreed with your synopsis to this point.

B2 bombs and cruise missiles have little effect against hit and run guerrillas.

That's why we will probbaly take Baghdad fairly soon only to be plagued by months of cleanup, nightly civilian body bags on ABC/CNN, and a looming PR battle for W.

BUMP

[LurkerNoMore!]

Excellent.

[ArneFufkin]

Thanks Ms. Free Republic - North Texas! LOL I just copied and pasted one of Sheryl Crowe's foreign policy white papers.

To make it my own, every time she used the phrase "Cosmic Karma from the Depths of Soul" I substituted the phrase "Explosive Smackdown from the Bowels of Hell."

[ArneFufkin]

Correct sir.

The Army wanted to use it to launch promotional packages from local FM stations into the crowds at basketball games.

[ArneFufkin]

The guys who are in the neighborhood to paint the target with a laser are also positioned to paint the Baathist goons with a pallette of hot lead!

Seriously, if we had agents deep enough in Saddam's shadowy world to pinpoint where he and his boys were going to go beddy bye that first night, we've got the intel and people there to find and kill any lurking thugs.

[ArneFufkin]

Locate Baghdad's civilian and military airports on this map.

Check. Awaiting further instructions.

[leadpenny]

And the "Hits" just keep on coming. Thanks again.

During the 2000 campaign, I forget which former Sec. of State said it, but when he met W for the first time, he came away saying that GWB had all the qualities of Reagan, and then some.

[fightinJAG]

Ricks is total crap. All crap, all the time. His "reporting" has been terrible.

[Robert Drobot]

Survey says....if you caused Howlin to get her panties in a bunch....you must be a man children should emulate!!!

Howlin's so partisan she makes Pillary Sodham Clipton look indecisive. It's said she's so partisan she once fell into the ocean and sharks cleared a path to avoid her. Fact is, her partisan blinders are on so tight, she doesn't know there's more to life than the itty-bitty circle she's been walking in for so long.

Please know that choosing to cross swords with Howlin is akin to warring with a child. Your advantage far outweighs one who would walk into battle absent the ability to lace her own shoes.

[TrueBeliever9]

AND Clinton NEVER gave written authorization to Clark to bomb Yugoslavia - he with held it and told Clark to do it. That way Clinton was off the hook - but Clark isn't. I think the big pay back for Clark is he will be Hillary's VP candidate when she runs for Prez. He is the perfect Clinton Yes Man!

[leprechaun9]

Hey Clarkie, your time at bat and record of failures speaks volumes of your expertise and credibility. You and Billy Clintoooon made a shambles of our Armed Forces, so instead of running for the Presidency, just go away and enjoy your knee pads!

[Redleg Duke]

Consider the source...Bill Clinton's Butt-Boy!

[Archangelsk]

As Rumsfeld has pointed out, we DONT KNOW that, and we didnt know it. Nothing about the future is "knowable". It is all speculation.

This is what happens when people believe that all U.S. military intelligence and area study began on Jan 20, 2001. Trust me on this, all the War Colleges, the Center for Strategic Studies and every other military think tank have been focused on this nut since the end of Desert Storm. We knew perfectly well what the climate was in the south and we also knew that Saddam had learned a couple of lessons from Desert Storm, Kosovo, Somalia etc. We also have an intelligence infrastructure in place that has cost you, me and the rest of U.S. tax payers untold billions of dollars to collect, analyze and report information of vital national security interest.

No, we knew and reported. However, what the receiver (or customer) hears and decides to do is a horse of an entirely different hue.

[OldFriend]

It's only a fad if you want to run for President of the US.......waiting for Sharpton to discover a yiddish bubby!

[OldFriend]

Imagine going to war to protect islamic fundamentalists who were terrorizing the civilian population of serbia. Imagine that the US had considered Albania a terrorist nation and NO US ships were permitted to enter the port.

Only someone like slick willie could reverse the sane order of the world and make such a decision....without a wimper from his friends in the media.

[OldFriend]

Clark thought it was just fine to bomb the drinking water pipeline into serbia.

Just fine to bomb the oil pipeline causing the same type of disaster saddam hussein caused when he lit the oil fires.

Just fine to cluster bomb civilians.

Just fine to bomb a railroad and kill innocents going to work.

Just fine to block the Danube so that no goods could flow downriver to all the areas who depended on the river for their supplies.

But then, it wasn't hip to protest that action cause their guy was in power.

[info_scout]

>>>Soooooooooooo ... you've been served with a supoena and had to go to trial ?<<<

Actually deposed many times as a friendly witness (for the good guys). Also called as expert witness.

[Grampa Dave]

Real simple, your ilk left a lot of my friends dead or seriously wounded in Nam with the run the military down during the 1960's/1970's. Your behavior/responses last night are no different than the Jane Fondas and other anti American Troop snakes in the grass, during the Nam war.

You may have been in diapers during Nam or not even born, but you are presenting the same Bravo Sierra that was presented in Nam by the same breed snakes in the grass. "I'm for our soldiers, but their leaders are really wrong and stupid!"

You replies in this section put you in the Jane Fonda set of CINO moles as far as I'm concerned and many others who read your so called arguments last night.

Three couples who are very close to us have either a son or a son in law with boots on the ground in Iraq. Your lame Ritter/Clark argument which is no different than Scott Ritter's can put them at even more risk.