Rumsfeld calls Americans stupid.

[Qikdraw]

The war, he said, “is not well known. It was not well understood. It is complex for people to comprehend.” And he alluded to the crescendo of calls for his ouster, quoting Winston Churchill: “I have benefited greatly from criticism, and at no time have I suffered a lack thereof.”

Link (http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/World/2006/11/08/2282681-ap.html)

So the Iraq war is not well know, and Americans are too stupid to understand what is happening.

Nice.

Not only is he not appologetic for the failures in Iraq, but he's insulting as well.

Qikdraw

[Qikdraw]

The war, he said, “is not well known. It was not well understood. It is complex for people to comprehend.” And he alluded to the crescendo of calls for his ouster, quoting Winston Churchill: “I have benefited greatly from criticism, and at no time have I suffered a lack thereof.”

Link (http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/World/2006/11/08/2282681-ap.html)

So the Iraq war is not well know, and Americans are too stupid to understand what is happening.

Nice.

Not only is he not appologetic for the failures in Iraq, but he's insulting as well.

Qikdraw

[sw1sweendog]

maybe it was just a joke gone bad http://oakhurstonline.com/icon/smash.gif

[nacktman]

Consider the source, Qikdraw. The baffoon was always in denial and too ignorant to know it, so of course he thinks everyone else is stupid.

That's one down, but the two most deadly threats to our military personnel are still stubbornly insisting on "staying the course".

[NudistGuy47]

I am with you, nacktman. I feel there will be a very partisan fight in Congress and the Senate now there seems to be control in both by the Democrats. It will be a trying time for the President and anyone else connected with the war.

I do not agree with the President who said: "Due to Rumsfeld, the world is a safer place from terrorism." I feel with the war, entered into without support around the world, the world is more prcarious.

let's see what now transpires! Will Condi be next?

[usmc1]

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by nacktman:
Consider the source, Qikdraw. The baffoon was always in denial and too ignorant to know it, so of course he thinks everyone else is stupid.

That's one down, but the two most deadly threats to our military personnel are still stubbornly insisting on "staying the course". </div></BLOCKQUOTE>

Rummy is right in way. Right in a way he does not intend. He is right that we do not understand--he thinks it is because of the "enormous complexities" of the war that we do not understand.

His is sociopathic thinking and unless we accept that there can be no understanding of the insanity of the situation. Bush, Cheney and Rusmsfeld all display the classic symptoms/indicators of the sociopathic personality disorder.

Our mistake is to look at and judge these men within the context of what is generally accepted to be "normal" behavior or thinking. They do not think as well people do.

What I find interesting is that daddy is sending in the family's number one hired gun, James Baker--as slick a sociopathic salamander as exists--to haul sonny's ashes out of the fire yet again.

Hence Rummy goes, Bolton will go, and a few other changes will be made. But the disease of this administration will linger.

[S.M.A.]

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">His is sociopathic thinking and unless we accept that there can be no understanding of the insanity of the situation. Bush, Cheney and Rusmsfeld all display the classic symptoms/indicators of the sociopathic personality disorder. </div></BLOCKQUOTE>
Is Rummy a sociopath? Maybe. Is he bitter that he can't finish the job, no matter how much of a mess he's made? Definitely.

Stuart http://oakhurstonline.com/icon/smoking.gif

[hm0504]

So, what will the new guy, Robert Gates, do with Iraq? Afghanistan? etc.

Stay the course, cut and run, ...?

[Baron Lake]

Under Gates the manipulation of "intelligence" is likely to be done with more subtlety and professionalism than we have seen in the recent past.

Maybe I'm just being cynical.

One thing is sure. Gate's diplomatic skills are a cut above those of any current Cabinet member. His mediation between India and Pakistan was cited on a news program today, seems he was very competent and effective.

Anyway, he could hardly be worse than Rummy.

Hmmm...with Gate's track record with P'stan and the job still unfinished in A'stan.... maybe the first Iraq pull-outs will be to our bases around Kabul.


b.l.

[Baron Lake]

Oops. Did I say "pull-out"? Meant re-deploy.
b.l.

[atalanta]

Do you think the President ever has nightmares about Colin Powell's observation, on recommending extreme caution before invading Iraq: "you break it, you own it"?
Having broken it, the present government is unable to find a way to give it back. Pity that George W did not listen to a leader with field credentials, and think longer before deploying Rummy & Co.