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of Aptos, CA
Oct 1999
time: 21:32
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"In 2003 Donald Harold Rumsfeld, 71, was the very word of war: he planned it, he sold it, he strutted through a postwar landscape that is still far from tidy. Armed with a new doctrine of pre-emptive warfare, he spurred the military to fight lighter and faster than it had ever fought before, rewriting the battlefield playbook for perhaps a decade or more. Energized by hard work and spurred by his stubborn refusal to bend, he has extended the Pentagon's clout on all kinds of nonmilitary matters, from civil liberties at home to the conduct of diplomacy abroad. His power has at times verged on the absolute, and even some White House officials wonder whether anyone can rein him in. Yet for all his apparent certainty, he found a way, in his exquisite fashion, to make clear that he was under no illusions about the limits of America's new global war on terrorism. As a result, his campaign to transform the military is just beginning."
http://www.time.com/time/personofth...my.html?cnn=yes
Rumsfeld is arguably the most important person in government aside from the president. He clearly is the most intelligent cabinent official since Kissinger and the most innovative SecDef since MacNamara. Has there been a more effective SecDef ever?
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shawnmmcc
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Rumsfeld, whose lighter and faster doctrine is going to result in my sister's (one of three, in case someone notice's and says how can she do that much) husband being deployed, not in the M1 Abrams he was trained in, but a Humvee. A vehicle that an RPG will turn into a twisted metal wreck if it gets hit.
Rumsfeld, who is willing to have substantially larger US casualties as a result of a new rapid deployment unit with only light AFV's and no organic artillery. (I'll post a web page with a full analysis from home if anyone asks - if they haven't had to yank the site).
Rumsfeld, the man who realizes you can save lots of money by not deploying M1 Abrams, both in transport aircraft and in hardware and training cost. If some of those boys get killed because they are in a Humvee, not an Abrams, well, they aren't the kids of any politicians he knows (I think it's something like three members in both house of Congress have children/grandchildren in the military, I haven't followed up the story).
Rumsfeld, the man supporting the Stryker boondongle, the biggest f****d up program since the McNamara DOD.
The only people who could consider him the man of the year are a group of militarily ignorant journalists who do not have a clue as to the difference between a shaped charge and AP round (as in the RPG 7). The man is a fool (a moron without the excuse of organic brain damage), and by creating a light infranty division all he is going to do is get more grunts killed. Ground forces on the cheap - you get what you pay for, and the widows, and now widowers, will curse his name, rightfully so. Go to some of the military bulletin boards and see how much the regular enlisted men think Rummy's "the man of the year." (note, as I've mentioned before, I liked McCain).
edited - I always mispell his name!
Last edited by shawnmmcc on 26-12-2003 at 15:57
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Comrade Tassadar
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OOSUH! OOSUH! OOSUH!
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26-12-2003 12:19
good comparison
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