There's a line of dialogue for that: I think it's, "I was just following orders."

Yeah, well Bush and Cheney probably need a couple months to find the door out.

Seems to me, that the timing of this "step-down" is awfully coincidental. Considering Rumsfeld's lack of popularity, if he'd have "stepped-down" two weeks ago, the Republicans might have maintained the majority.

Makes you wonder if this isn't exactly what they wanted.

Texas isn't the U.S., and he was governor a decade ago. So that's why I suggest yours is a poor comparison.

As to you vicious insult, apology accepted.

I'm sorry for the Republicans to lose the House and (it looks like) the Senate.

SmileWavy

dd...

"Ja Wohl...."

While America has few or no enemies, the US government has plenty, nearly as many within US borders as there are in foreign lands.

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And besides, i want Cheyney in power almost as much as i want you in power. ;)

We'd have to impeach him at the same time. Keep in mind though, there's not enough votes to convict either in the Senate, just like for Clinton. Of course that might change if one of us catches Cheney with those young boys.:cool:

Sure. But apparently it's a theory you're not able to face, unless you really are ignorant about this instead of merely playing a fool.

Rumsfeld has served in six administrations(from both parties) and has more international diplomacy experience than most anyone else in government.

If you dismiss him as an idiot I think it says more about you than him. A little too lazy for my taste...but expedient to be sure!:D

Here's to hopes and beautiful dreams. . .

OhpleaseOhpleaseOhplease. . .

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You only have to be an idiot once and go down as one to be one historically...

If you don't believe that, well, I guess there's many allowances for many men of ill-repute.

1) Nixon loved his dog.

2) Clinton didn't really have sex with that intern.

3) Mussolini got all the trains to run on time.

4) Hitler was instrumental in building the Autobahn.

An idiot, no. Morally and ethically bankrupt, certainly.

See, atleast Pat has a theory:D

That is a completely ridiculous assertion.

Almost as stupid as your analysis of that military video yesterday.

It remains to be seen who will sieze power in Iraq, or under what circumstances, but one possibility is a poliitcal partition of the nation along ethnic lines, and yes, that would clearly be a 'victory' for us.

Have you ever even talked to ANYONE who's served there?

It was the Sunni that started the civil war to BEGIN WITH!

LOL....wow...You're a loop job.

In the eyes of this ex-trooper, he is an idiot of the first order.

Good riddance!

Your views are simply bizarre.

Pakistan is a ticking (nuclear) time bomb, that's for damned sure.

No cuz, he attempted to MICRO-manage it.

One question: Do you know what the TPFDL is?

If not, allow me to explain.

It is a highly complex computer generated program that lists, in specific order, the exact units and deployment timetables for a military operation based on specific and highly complex input data. We invested massive monies and efforts to get the system up and running, and it was a complete success in several conflicts, starting with(IIRC) Desert Storm.

Rumsfeld, in his infinite wisdom, did not like the force levels that the TPFDL spit out, so he simply THREW IT OUT.(this is detailed at length in the Book Cobra II).

Rumsfeld is a MORON.

Perhaps in your deluded "blame america first" leftist fantasies, but nowhere else, and certainly not in reality.

Jesus...talking to some of you leftists is like talking to someone who was just hit on the head by a cinder block.

Attending medic: "What day is it?"

Wounded liberal: "BUSH IS A WAR CRIMINAL! HE STOLE THE ELECTION!"

It has not been "Easy for the insurgents" to kill 3000 americans.

We lost more men on the fist day at Iwo Jima than we've lost in 3 years in Iraq. So historically, given the length of the conflict, this is a brilliant campaign wrt the amount of casualties we've suffered...it's just that in every other way it has failed....

As far as the cheyney comment, as the lead elements of the US Army advance into Iraq approached Nassiriyah they were atually instructed to "Expect parades", and were further instructed to be prepared to hand out thousands of little american flags they'd been issued, for photo ops.

Um, Whoops...

The generals running the war, from Shinseki, to Wallace, to Abizaid, made all kinds of predictions of doom and gloom even BEFORE the war started based on Rummy and Franks force levels and plans.

They were flatly ignored(and often put to pasture).

That's an observation, not a theory. http://www.pelicanparts.com/support/smileys/shake.gif