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Paragon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-28-04 10:31 AM
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Rumsfeld on THIS WEEK: "We didn't go to Iraq."
http://apnews.myway.com//article/20040328/D81JEFLO0.html

WASHINGTON (AP) - Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld insisted Sunday that Iraq was not a distraction for the Bush administration in the days before and after the Sept. 11 attacks.

Rumsfeld sought to counter the contention of President Bush's former chief counterterrorism adviser, Richard Clarke, who testified last week that the administration was preoccupied with Iraq and ignored the threat posed by Osama bin Laden and his al-Qaida terrorist network.

"If one looks at what was done, we went to Afghanistan, we didn't go to Iraq," Rumsfeld told ABC's "This Week."

"It was a highly successful effort and it did not destroy al-Qaida. But it certainly took away their training, their haven, and it certainly destroyed the Taliban and eliminated them from running that country. That's what the president's action was. It wasn't Iraq. It was Afghanistan."
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Nlighten1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-28-04 10:33 AM
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1. "we didn't go to Iraq"?
Um...am I missing something here? Did Iraq come to us?
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Turbineguy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-28-04 10:35 AM
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2. Thank goodness!
It was only a nightmare! Oops.
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daveskilt Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-28-04 10:37 AM
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3. no Eurasia is the enemy and always has been
eastasia is our ally so we could never have invaded them. You must be thinking incorrectly citizen.
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Mari333 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-28-04 10:38 AM
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4. Tell that to my kid in Iraq Rummy you fuckwad
fuck you Rummy fuck you
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anarchy1999 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-28-04 10:43 AM
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8. Okay, Okay, Mari..............
Careful,

I agree with you 100%. Just take it down a notch. For you and your family. I know it is tough, you have to. My heart breaks for you every day.
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trumad Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-28-04 10:56 AM
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13. Take it down a notch...:wtf
Fuck Rumsfeld and fuck anybody who tries to quite our passion regarding the fuckWAD rUMSFELD!
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Mari333 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-28-04 11:02 AM
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15. Ill say it in Caps EAT SHIT RUMSFIELD
.
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TacticalPeek Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-28-04 11:45 AM
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19. Fuck Rumsfield and the frat boy he rode in on.
Nice manners are wasted on their ilk.

:grr:
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Junkdrawer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-28-04 11:55 AM
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21. No, No, technically speaking, Rumsfeld is indeed a fuckwad...
Fuckwad (n) - Any idiot whose lies lead to the deaths of innocents. (See nimrod, asshole)
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Jim Sagle Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-28-04 10:39 AM
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5. Rumsfeld meant "We didn't go to Iraq in direct response to 911."
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BiggJawn Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-28-04 10:42 AM
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7. If he meant that, he would have said it...
About 20-30 times with a lot of "Good GAWD!" and "Oh, my,my..." and LOTS of that finger wiggling shit thrown in, too...

It makes me violently ILL to watch that fucking Vampire on Tee-Vee....
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Paragon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-28-04 10:43 AM
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9. Thanks, Jim.
:eyes:

He also meant "I'm trying to distance the administration from the obvious parallels we made between 9/11 and Iraq."

Guess he put down that "prizm of 9/11", eh?
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Jade Fox Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-28-04 10:40 AM
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6. The Taliban was destroyed?
That's not what I've read other places.
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BiggJawn Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-28-04 10:43 AM
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10. No, they just moved East...
And established the Province of Talibanistan on the Afghan-Pak border....
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hang a left Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-28-04 10:55 AM
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12. No, they were just stopped from burning up all them opium poppys
You don't fuck with the CIA.
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9215 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-28-04 11:04 AM
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16. LOL. Good one
Afghan opium production is back up to its pre-Taliban levels.
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leftchick Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-28-04 11:50 AM
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20. no kidding.... chimpy* says it DAILY
at his DAILY fundraisers. Forget the fact that the Taliban is alive and well and targeting our soldiers in Afghanistan. If we had a real unbiased media, someone somewhere might correct little boy kings verbal gaff.... :eyes:
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cosmicdot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-28-04 10:53 AM
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11. why is he saying Iraq wasn't a distraction? who's saying it was?
Edited on Sun Mar-28-04 10:53 AM by cosmicdot
it was part of the plan - energy task force, PNAC, Caspian Sea geopolitics as white papered by the GOP's think tanks, revenge, whatever ...

Michael Jackson is a distraction. Rumsfeld's wild-hand movements are a distraction. There are lots of distractions ... Iraq's not one of them.

Is the Media talking about AWOL/desertion anymore?
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hang a left Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-28-04 10:56 AM
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14. Move on now, that is ancient history.
"Is the Media talking about AWOL/desertion anymore?"
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9215 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-28-04 11:09 AM
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17. You must read Clarke's book.
on 9/11 and the days following Wolfie was obsessed with Iraq. That is on the back cover. Bushboy wanted to pin it on Iraq without evidence. He wanted Clarke to manufacture the evidence.

9/11 was used as an excuse for Bush to launch his campaign of conquest of the Middle-East and Caspian region.
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demgrrrll Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-28-04 11:15 AM
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18. They are spinning like tops. From what I saw this morning Powell is
a much better liar than Rummy. Rummy pauses and stammers
has some obvious tells. I really think that Powell had
the questions beforehand or he is as slick as anyone I have
ever seen. Clarke IS Neo, the one.
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