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L'Boro, UK
Oct 2001
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I quite like Rummy in a "I can't believe he just said that and noone has shut him up yet" kinda way.
The scary thing is he is in control of the most effective army on the planet as well as the army with the most WMD.
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Bereta_Eder
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Originally posted by realpolitic
Rumsfield would be wise to listen to the words of Ghandhi,"An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth leaves everyone blind and toothless".
How we're going to deal with the rest of the world after this should prove interesting, 95% of the Greeks and 91% of the Russians said they disapprove of this war. |
Yeah... while at the same time having tons of American planes refuel, air refuel and aided in Suda Base in Crete protected by Patriot and S-300 missiles...
Regardless they're bigger countries than Greece to "worry" about.
Bush senior says the only thing that saddens him about Bush junior policies is that he drove away "traditional allies" (although he also doesn't like the French)
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Drake Tungsten
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Knee deep in alien womyn...
Oct 2001
time: 14:27
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The Washington Post has jumped on the Rumsfeld bandwagon. Why don't you join the club?
quote:
Rumsfeld Stands Tall After Iraq Victory
As U.S. forces wind down the war in Iraq, Donald H. Rumsfeld stands astride the military establishment as few defense secretaries ever have.
After two years in office, he has his own people in top slots across most of the military establishment. He has triumphed in a military success in Iraq that featured an audacious war plan he helped to shape. He also looms large outside the Pentagon, injecting himself far more into intelligence matters than his predecessors and playing an unusually large role in shaping Bush administration foreign policy. He even has turned around a sour relationship with Congress.
He now is in position as never before to reshape the U.S. military along the lines he has talked about since taking office, "transforming" it into a more agile and precise force built not around firepower but around information, and willing to take risks to succeed.
Most notably, he is pushing the Special Operations Command from the sideshow niche it long has occupied to center stage in the "global war on terrorism" and other U.S. military operations. After the Iraq war, which featured one of the biggest missions ever for Special Operations forces, that command "is going to be the flavor of the month," said one defense official.
Rumsfeld still faces major challenges, most notably with respect to the Army, with which his office has had badly strained relations for more than a year. While the central role played by that service in the Iraq war may ease some of those strains, that campaign also has raised new questions about a key Army weapons program, the Apache helicopter gunship.
But few defense secretaries ever have had as much influence as Rumsfeld does now, coming off successful military campaigns in Afghanistan and Iraq. "It seems to me that he is in a tremendously strong position," said Johns Hopkins University strategy expert Eliot Cohen, author of "Supreme Command," an influential study of how civilians lead militaries in wartime. |
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dy...-2003Apr19.html
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Bereta_Eder
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One (another) thing that is peculiar is how Rumsfield seems to have ttaken over the position of the Foreign Minister. So many declaration... That is the job of the Foreign Minister of a country not the defence one.
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16-04-2003 21:44
. He's smart, witty, and tells it like it is. Great guy 
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. Of course anyone that actually has been around the White House could tell you how wrong that perception is.
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