Rumsfeld Ill, but Continues Working

WASHINGTON -- Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld has been ill for several days but has kept a regular, though reduced, work schedule mostly out of public view, his spokesman said Thursday.

"He picked up this bug that's going around," Lawrence Di Rita told reporters when asked about Rumsfeld's condition. "He's been in every day ... He's tried to limit his contact with people a little bit because he's been sick."

Rumsfeld, 72, is in his fifth year as defense secretary.

He canceled an appearance in Los Angeles last Friday because of his condition. The House Armed Services Committee had expected him Wednesday for continued testimony on President Bush's proposed 2006 defense budget, but aides said they were told he put it off because he was ill.

http://www.newsday.com/news/politics/wire/sns-ap-rumsfeld-health,0,4650108.story?coll=sns-ap-politics-headlines

But he's been 'sick' for much longer than a few days...

I'm delighted.

working even though he's sick....

:wtf:

spreading germs to his staff and everyone else he somes in contact with - what a "great" and "generous" kind of guy.

:shrug:

and cheney - share the wealth, spread the love....

:evilgrin:

Most people with his illness are institutionalized.

SOP for serial anythings...

:kick:

A more likely scenario from the bastard who assured us he "KNEW" where the wmds so many have died to find were.

If it is a lie, what then, would be the truth?

Could it have something to do with the lawsuit the ACLU just filed?

Just thinking out loud.

Hopefully, treatment can be provided in an appropriate facility.


Abu Ghraib Prison

when the Cuban missile crisis happened; the head cold bit was a lie of course.

http://slate.msn.com/id/2099277/Donald Rumsfeld vs. the Generals

Page 14: On Feb. 16, 2001, American and British planes bomb Iraqi targets to enforce the no-fly zones. No one from the Joint Chiefs of Staff bothers to inform the secretary of defense.

Page 6: Pressing for more power, Rumsfeld micromanages Iraq war plans. Gen. Tommy Franks tells him (according to insider accounts), "This ain't going to work. You can fire me. I'm either the commander or I'm not, and you've got to trust me or you don't."

Page 91-92: Bonus Rumsfeld snub: He admits he can't remember vetting Bush's "Axis of Evil" speech, the address that has come to define his foreign policy. "That speech was not particularly in my area," he explains.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=104&topic_id=3201729
Rep. McKinney toasting Rummy's ass with 9/11 war games question.

of our military personnel have..OR perhaps he's gotten a good dose of that "harmless"(:eyes:) Depleted Uranium that our soldiers and Iraqis are coping with now.....

Thbbbbb, he would be lucky to have a mere flu/infection; the gutless meathead. :grr:

and we keep infecting each other. Yesterday we sprayed the workstations and cubicles with Lysol. In Rummy's case, perhaps they need to use RAID.

Spray Rummy and Wolfie with a little agent orange and malathion. It is important to take care of both flora and fauna.

deliver the FLU vaccine on-time....


oh the irony...bush* failure KNOCKS out his old criminals from the reagun era.....

jerry falwell is still hospitalized with THE FLU....

bye bye seniors....rummy can thank bush* for this HOMELAND DISASTER....widespread and EPIDEMIC levels of FLU, due to bush* failure to deliver the FLU vaccine ON-TIME and in sufficient quantity....


http://www.cdc.gov/flu/weekly/

The following information may be quoted:

Synopsis:
During week 7 (February 13-19, 2005)*, influenza activity continued to increase in the United States....The proportion of patient visits to sentinel providers for influenza-like illness (ILI) has been above the national baseline for 6 consecutive weeks. The proportion of deaths attributed to pneumonia and influenza is above the epidemic threshold.

I couldn't believe it when I heard he doesn't sit down when he works. He actually has no chair behind his desk! He STANDS at a podium ALL DAY! (or so he says)...

The man is so poisonous a common cold or flu would probably be smothered and killed instantly by all of the venom he possesses anyway!:puke:

:shrug:

Rooboy, comments like yours soooooo make me wish DU had a Scoop-like comment rating system so I could rate it +20 or so.

He has always appeared, 2 me, 2 have circulatory problems. He has a gray pallor about him that can only B described as 'death warmed over'.

That's why they're so afraid of protestors.
Most of those signs are attached to WOODEN STAKES.

In other news, soldier was killed today. But nevermind that...wouldn't want to lower morale!

I had to agree to not wishing something to a certain somebody.

But I think readers can guess what I'm thinkin :hangover:

No harm in thinking, right mods?:smoke:

one courageous and powerful virus that went after him. What does it take to get a cockroach sick?

I have never been a person to enjoy the suffering of others. However in this instance I have to say I do enjoy it. The amount of pain this man has caused around the world only reinforces my feelings of this. I can only hope that this man's time is ticking away.

It's human.

So, I recognize the intense courage and heroism of Rummy. Honestly, he deserves a medal. All hail Rummy.

would inhabit that creature?

in his eyes and loud music blaring.

he made his bed. he should have to lay in it.

Pandemic 1.1, right behind the bird flu.