Posted on 09/16/2002 5:17:48 AM PDT by 11th Earl of Mar
Hmmmmm, what could be another reason for defecting???
Like he was afraid for his life? Just like I've heard him say... nah, you're right, it's the disgruntled thing.
Yeppers you've convinced me. /sarcasm
Q: Good afternoon. Lance Corporal Jonathan Lee 2-11. (Cheers.) I wasn't so bright, so I wrote down all the questions I wanted to ask you. (Laughter.) Question number one: Do you feel that if we do go to war with Saddam Hussein that the president will consider fighting other countries in the axis of evil?
Next question: Do you feel --
Rumsfeld: No, no, no, no, no, no. It's late in the day. I'm going to answer them one at a time.
Q: Okay.
Rumsfeld: The circumstances of the countries in the axis of evil are notably different. The situation in North Korea is a dangerous one for the people of North Korea because they're starving. Many of them are trying to flee the country. And their circumstance is tragic. They have a terribly repressive regime, and it is the kind of a situation that could just kind of collapse internally.
The situation in Iran, a second country in the so-called axis of evil, where the president has again in my judgment done exactly the right thing by talking to the people of that country. It has a situation that's very different from either Iraq or North Korea. The women there and the young people there are in ferment. They're creating enormous pressures against the small tight group of clerics that are running that country with the Revolutionary Guard, and who knows? I can't -- I don't do predictions. But Iran strikes me as a place -- if you think how quickly it turned from the Shah of Iran to the Ayatollahs. It is not beyond imagination that it could flip back almost as rapidly. I believe that the people there are intelligent. They're industrious. They're being denied access to the rest of the world. Their economic circumstances is nowhere near what it would be if they were free to interact with the rest of the globe and make the kinds of contributions that they're being prevented from making because of the clerics that lead that country.
So I think it's a quite different situation and I think it would -- it, it's proper to characterize them the way the president did. It would not be right for those hearing that to assume that in each case, the circumstances are similar because they're notably dissimilar in my view.
Whole transcript on DoD website, here.
Pat is annoying
The Reform Party?
And Buchanan fits right in with the uninformed "ilk," too.
You've never heard of ships? You know, those big metal things that float on the ocean, and arrive by the hundreds at scores of seaports all around this country, many of them in the heart of major cities like New York, San Francisco, Houston, Los Angeles, Chicago, New Orleans...
And their contents get inspected only *after* they arrive in port.
It doesn't take a rocket scientist (!) to pack a bomb in a shipping crate, and load it onto a friendly ship (or even just contract for delivery from a freight company), then trigger it when the ship arrives in port.
Nor would it be all that difficult to smuggle it in over the border somewhere and simply drive it down the freeway to any destination you choose. If Iraq can't think of any other way to smuggle it into the country, just hide it in a bale of marijuana, no one will ever find it there...
Your inability to figure out these elementary issues makes me concerned about the astuteness of your other pronouncements.
And the author of this article is a disgruntled speech writer - shall we not defend ourselves based on such rhetoric?
Yeah, almost everyone's got it figured out after 9/11. Of course the point is when Pat tried to tell the sheeple years ago he was crucified for it.
No, by wooden crate to the uninspected american seaport of your choice.
C'mon folks. He better have a real FLEET of these freighters ready because moments after #1 the asphalting of his pi$$ant country begins. He knows it, that's why he's been in his hidey hole for 11 years.
We're finally starting to see a little fruit from our efforts in the WOT this week. Let's not get diverted now.
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