O, Christmas Tree: The jolly man with the beard said this man was “a bad guy.”
Yes, Don and Joyce Rumsfeld had an absolutely stunning tree this year. And the duck was so juicy, it practically melted in your mouth. The party was a lot less crowded than last year—no Powells, no Tenets, no Ashcrofts, or Keriks—but it was wonderful.
Merry Christmas, everyone! And a happy, healthy New Year!
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as cretinous and defeatist as your point of view is, it doesn;t matter to the soldiers who are there.
there opinion counts and yours doesn’t.
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MOSUL (Reuters) – U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld on Friday took a delighted dig at the media after troops he was visiting in Iraq complained their good works were ignored by the press while disasters grabbed the headlines.
A soldier at his first stop in Mosul asked Rumsfeld how the “propaganda” worked?
Rumsfeld, under attack since he appeared to brush aside a question about poor equipment from a U.S. soldier in Kuwait that later turned out to have been composed with help from a reporter, jumped at the opportunity to turn the tables.
“That doesn’t sound like a question placed by the press,” he told his audience to loud applause.
A few hours later in Tikrit, the same frustration surfaced with another soldier complaining that she had a hard time explaining what they were doing in Iraq when she got back home and asking what could be done to get past the bad press.
Rumsfeld said the message was getting through anyway.
“I think the country does understand that we lost 3,000 people on September 11th and the fact that those people were operating in this part of the world … You’ve seen the evil up close and personal, you know the danger that this poses.
“What you’re doing is important. I think the American people get it.”
http://in.news.yahoo.com/041224/137/2in5d.html
> “That doesn’t sound like a question placed by the press,” he told his audience to loud applause.
Nope, more like by the administration.
> A soldier at his first stop in Mosul asked Rumsfeld how the “propaganda” worked?
Back on surer footing after a rocky couple of weeks based on this “news “story” evidently.
Happy holidays y’all. Keep up the great work in 2005.
You know… I’ve heard about the original question being written by a reporter, but I’m wondering what the reporter did to encourage or coerce the soldier to actually ask it. If the question wasn’t legitimate, wouldn’t that mean that the reporter would have to have done *something*… like paying the soldier or threatening him?
And what about the massive amount of applause that came from the other soldiers when the question was asked? Did this same reporter go to each of the soldiers who applauded and say, “now make sure to cheer?”
Sometimes the spin makes me dizzy, yo.
“I think the country does understand that we lost 3,000 people on September 11th and the fact that those people were operating in this part of the world …”
Yeah… we do understand that… and we understand that you are going to attempt to use it to justify many other things that aren’t related, Mr. Rumsfeld. I applaud your use of the phrase “this part of the world…” At least you didn’t *lie*, did you?
You know… I was really touched by how he got a little choked up talking about that stuff… just a few days after the president had said that Rumy was a sensitive guy deeply affected by the war. I wonder if his agent has nominated him for the academy awards yet.
Good point Andy. I’m in the military, and if my unit was at a Q&A session with Rummy no reporter could get me to draw the wrath of my entire chain of command in that way. I guess maybe if it was a really hot female…no still probably not.
Also, for the record, I think using that picture in this way is fairly tasteless, just saying.
Good point Andy. I’m in the military, and if my unit was at a Q&A session with Rummy no reporter could get me to draw the wrath of my entire chain of command in that way. I guess maybe if it was a really hot female…no still probably not.
Also, for the record, I think using that picture in this way is fairly tasteless, just saying.
Also, horns, I know you hate it when I do this, but I’m a soldier and a despise Rumsfeld and Bush, of course you have no way of knowing who I really am, so you probably discard my opinion differently then the unnamed soldiers in your various press releases. I see your point to, their Army-sanctioned opinions are a true testament to how all soldiers feel. Face the truth, the country, including the military, hates Rumsfeld and Bush won’t fire him because he’s already been so succesful catching bin Laden. Oh, wait a second, he hasn’t, crap.
Fairly tasteless, yes. But far less so than the stagy Dog and Pony show starring Don Rumsfeld (“He’ll be in Iraq all day, folks!”). What a load of crap. And I also loved the little choking-up thing. I get those kind of tears too, I found, when I stick my finger down my throat.
maybe it’s just me, but did anyone else get a little turned on by those prison pics? i mean, i’d gladly pay at least 200 dollars to have somebody dress up as a soldier and do that to me- and those irakees got it for FREE. please, sign me up for prison duty- i’ve got my own hood too.
damn, that’s funny.
You decorate the XMas tree you have, and not the one that you want.
That picture made me laught out loud, literally.