The Donald Rumsfeld I know isn't the one you know

St. Paul Pioneer Press ^ | Nov. 12, 2006 | Douglas J. Feith

[Beth528]

Oh I think Rush and Sean reads FreeRepublic...Don't be surprised if you hear one of them read this...

[Gondring]

What changes in the conditions did he fail to recognize and get beyond?

I think that it's pretty obvious that the "Mission Accomplished" phase ended and we moved into an occupation/nation-building phase, where our primary combat element was counterinsurgency.

[James Ewell Brown Stuart]

Well, yeah! And both Rumsfeld and the Army have met that counterinsurgency. So the changes did change, he recognized it, and shift tactics accordingly.

Furthermore Mission Accomplished sign for the Abraham Lincoln aircraft carrier group.

[SJackson]

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[Valin]

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[trisham]

When he told organizations to take on new missions, their instinct — typical of bureaucracies — was to say they needed more people and more money. Rumsfeld responded: If changes in the world require us to do new things, those changes must also allow us to curtail or end old missions that we continue for no good reason. He made numerous major changes in the Defense Department at the cost of goring a lot of oxen.

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Rumsfeld is a true patriot. The way the MSM has treated him is shameful.

[listenhillary]

Great article / bookmark

[Kay]

Thanks for posting this.

[ScaniaBoy]

Exactly! I wondered if someone still remembered. Powell's State let the side down. Then IIRC thre was aslo plans of a exile Iraqi force to take over Baghdad? Wasn't it supposed to have been led by Ahmed Chalabi, but the CIA and the State stopped it.

Of course Chalabi may be a very dodgy character, but somehow I feel, and felt already then, that Washington political infighting was interferring with the handling of Iraq.

Anyway, an absolutely first rate post about a 100% first rate person!

[GretchenM]

fyi

[SuzyQue]

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[Brian Allen]

<< Thank you for the post.

.... Iraq was invaded under the watchful eye of the embedded media (Who to the last American or subversive or traitor among them considered Secretary Rumsfeld) a rockstar. Some wanted him to be considered for the Presidency.

(Secretary Rumsfeld's) only crime was to be the smartest guy in the room. >>

Especially when only he and our erstwhile "Republican" president -- and/or Carl Rove) were the only ones there.

As was cut into steel by Secretary Rumsfeld's firing two weeks after that action might have been rationalized and justified as at least advancing the Republicans' election chances.

And was further reinforced by being chipped into granite as well by the nomination (coincidental with the awful prospect of his setting himself to adapting an amalgamation of the Baker Gang's, "Colonel" Murtha's and Charley Rangells' Iraq proposals) of Bush 41's failed CIA director!

At the time his Doctrine was promulgated, Mr Bush was likely headed for greatness. Instead of having his remains split up and well-deserved divided between the Republican Party's and History's garbage cans, which his feckless political and administrative actions have more recently reserved as his most likely destination!

[dervish]

Thank you for posting this. I have nothing but the highest respect for Mr Rumsfeld. He was assaulted by the real idealogues - the leftist Move On/Michael Moore clan.

[malia]

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[FreeKeys]

Also see: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1735680/posts -- some of which include links to biographical pages and/or collections of Rumsfeld quotes

[Interesting Times]

Ping.

[zot]

Thanks for the ping. I believe Donald Rumsfeld is a great man who did what needed to be done, and I'm sorry that President Bush accepted his resignation.

[The Shrew]

Secretary Rumsfeld's) only crime was to be the smartest guy in the room.

Especially when only he and our erstwhile "Republican" president -- and/or Carl Rove) were the only ones there.

Quite pithy Brian.

Thanks for the ping.

Regards,

TS

[LucyT]

http://www.neoperspectives.com/rumsfeld.htm