Posted on 06/30/2021 12:41:30 PM PDT by Enlightened1
“You go to war with the army you have, not the army you wish you had.”
Rumsfeld’s strategy of Maneuver Warfare in Gulf War I was brilliant, and had our adversaries terrified by our demonstration of might. Then GW Bush came along with wars of occupation, trying to win “hearts and minds”, only to prove America is not so invincible.
While I don’t want to come off disparaging others fond memories of him and I respect their rights to their opinions, I will remember him as one of the quintessential NeoCons of that era, along with Dick Cheney.
While I wasn’t an enemy, as the article states, I really didn’t care for the mans policies.
He’s now exploring those unkown unknowns...
And now there shall be snowflakes in hell...
(His notes tasking people at all hours and on all issues were called snowflakes.)
(sarcasm)
lets bomb the middle east until
they adopt democracy and good government
One of the inside Swamp leaders of DC
Quite a long article chronicling Rumsfeld’s life without mentioning the cause of his death!
Here’s what he said:
“As we know, there are known knowns. There are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns. That is to say, we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns — the ones we don’t know we don’t know”
The press had a field day making fun of that, not knowing that it was their ignorance that made it funny. I am no rocket surgeon, but I knew what he meant and didn’t find it outrageous at all.
How about Korea, Vietnam, Panama, Mogadishu, the first Gulf invasion?
I really liked “Rummy”
A good American...RIP.
😂😂😂😂😂👍
RIP to a good American patriot and public servant. The kind that serves US not the other way around.
RIP
It is never possible to know what you don’t know you don’t know.
The orchestrated lies coming out of the Bush administration to satisfy the war machine were awfully convincing. Rumsfeld was convinced and later he wrote that he regretted repeating the lies.
I did not know this..
Economist Milton Friedman later noted that he, Friedman, regarded Reagan’s pick of Bush as “the worst decision not only of his campaign but of his presidency”, and that Rumsfeld was instead his preference. “Had he been chosen,” Friedman said, “I believe he would have succeeded Reagan as president and the sorry Bush-Clinton period would never have occurred.”
lol...i remember a reporter during the 2nd Iraq war, asking if the “U.S. was running out of targets” to bomb..Rumsfeld replied..”were not running out of targets, THEY are running out of targets”...AHAHAHAHAHAHA ..
“Having said that, he is as guilty as that boob GWB for the worst, most expensive military quagmire this country has ever seen.”
Which one?
GWB’s, our current quagmire.
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