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| Wed Oct 22, 5:18 PM ET |
Posted on 10/26/2003 6:37:49 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
Facing persistent enemy attacks in Iraq, the Defense Secretary now finds himself fighting battles at home too
Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld was having one of his irregular chats with Senators last Wednesday, speaking in the secret, soundproof fourth-floor Capitol chamber used for highly classified conversations, when someone interjected the question that was on everyone's mind. "What troop levels do we expect to have in Iraq a year from now?" asked Senator Bill Frist, the Republican leader. And with that, the Pentagon chief began to tap dance. His reply, according to a Republican Senator in the room, was a classic Rumsfeldian fugue—complete with interesting hand gestures—mentioning reductions and foreign troops and steady progress. Or, as the G.O.P. Senator described it later, "it was a five-minute, total nonanswer, just unbelievably obtuse." Another Republican Senator put it this way to TIME: "Rumsfeld believes in his own magic."
It is increasingly fair to ask: Does anyone else? For nearly three years as Defense Secretary, Rumsfeld has employed everything from smiling charm to podium-pounding bluntness in his battles with Congress, the Pentagon bureaucracy and his colleagues in the Bush Administration over who controls foreign policy. But his recent pronouncements, both public and private, have grown into a regular political distraction for a President who is already on the defensive for his handling of the Iraq war and its aftermath—both of which were designed largely by Rumsfeld himself.
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| Wed Oct 22, 5:18 PM ET |
Coordinated attack! Talkiing points!
They really think we are stupid, don't they?
Give it up, leftwingnuts...Rumsfeld is awesome, and he has been an essential person in our winning War on Terror.
Man, the way these people write, you'd think they want the terrorists to win.
I GUARANTEE THIS:
The two groups that MOST WANT Don Rumsfeld to be fired are:
1. Al Qaeda
2. The Democrat National Committee.
And not necessarily in that order. This should speak for itself.
Indeed.
What RINO Senators did they talk to? And... I wouldn't doubt their statements were revised to fit Time's agenda.
That about sums it up.
Increasingly viewed by the public as blatant shills for liberal politics and the Democratic Party, established news organs like Time Magazine continue to bleat out the same, tired, "Republicans are in difficulty, Democrats are on the rise" mantra that has long characterized their contribution to public discourse.
The so-called "wolf-pack" phenomenon, in which multiple blatant shills for the Democratic Party simultaneously discover importance in the same "news" story, creating an echo chamber of strikingly obvious liberal propaganda, has given rise to theories of conspiracy, and charges of an organized "liberal slant" to the news.
We asked Professor Elmo Fuddrucker, noted authority, about these charges. "It's nonsense. There is no conspiracy among liberal reporters to hammer the same theme from multiple outlets. No, it's just that they are all highly partisan and not very bright. They can recognize a promising line of attack on Republicans when they see one, and are anxious to jump on it. It might appear that the arrival of multiple new stories about the same empty speculation is coordinated, but in fact it's just stupid people behaving like sheep."
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Republicans talking to the media about Rummy are doing so for one reason. The leaked BRAC list. They think that if they can get rid of Rummy, they can save some bases. Rummy will stay and the bases will go.
Time should find something else to worry about.
Mr. Secretary...you're still "da man"!
No doubt two of the four who voted against banning the practice of sucking the brains out of newborn infants and crushing their skulls.
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