‘Freedom prevails,’ Rumsfeld tells U.S. troops

‘Freedom prevails,’ Rumsfeld tells U.S. troops

Defense secretary visits American soldiers in Iraq, serves Christmas dinner

Updated: 11:33 a.m. ET Dec. 24, 2005

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MOSUL, Iraq - U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld wrapped up his visit to Iraq at a Christmas Eve dinner with American troops in Mosul, the country’s second largest city and one of its most volatile.

Escorted by Apache helicopters to the U.S. regional headquarters in Mosul, Rumsfeld lent a hand serving troops a dinner of lobster tails and steak.

Addressing troops later, he reflected on a year in which, he said, Iraqi security forces had assumed greater responsibilities.

“When you read things and hear things that express doubt about the future here in Iraq, or in Afghanistan, know that there have always been doubts expressed, there have always been those who have suggested that the cause could not be successful, that the cause would be lost,” he said.

“In fact it was the people who persevered that proved them wrong. The great sweep of human history is for freedom and we’re on the side of freedom.

“In the struggle between freedom and tyranny, freedom ultimately prevails.”


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a numbskull.

Rumfield speak truth.... Freedom ultimately previals....:rofl:

Let us see
1) Iraqies insurgents fighting for freedom ..... does it apply here Rumfield
2) Americans fighting insurgent fighting for freedom to bring freedom..... who has bigger freedom :rofl:
3) Wait wait Iraqies does not understand freedom that is why American teaching them freedom with gun barrels. :rofl:
4) Your idea of freedom is different from ours hence we have to fight you so you can accept or idea of freedom. :rofl:
5) You get the freedom we want and not the freedom you want. :rofl:
6) "Freedom" say Bush. Look under desk look under chair..." Don't see any " and he laugh at his joke
"heehaw heeehaw" he bray :rofl:
7) You are now free to fight each other. Freedom to fight .... CIVIL WAR
8) Wheather you apppreciated it or not we bring you freedom and you so bad we spend 500 billion send in 160,000 troops and sacrifice 2160 over Americans kill thousands and thousands of your women and children. Why cant you understand we doing it for your freedom. Eeeh Dick it the oil ownership secure and 100% legal yet. We need freedom fro this mess. :rofl:

FREEDOM haha :rofl:

Where's the turkey, ham, sweet potatoes, and cranberry sauce.

What kind of fricking Christmas dinner is steak and lobster?

How many soldier's went thru that line hoping for some little taste of christmas at home and got steak and lobster instead!

lobster ??? lobster
They got better they got lobster tail. :rofl:
Me still trying to figure out that lobster tail bit.

but seriously, if I was away from my family on Christmas, out in the desert, I would want traditional Christmas Fare. Stuffing and Pumpkin pie. Candy canes and banana bread and that god awful jello salad someone always brings... the one with the marshmallows!



You know that lobster they are getting is that rubbery frozen stuff anyway. It's like chewing octopus. ick.

“In the struggle between freedom and tyranny, freedom ultimately prevails.”

Now let's just see what one of our Arab ALLIES, Egypt, thinks about the "freedom" we're bringing to Iraq. (I'm working in Egypt right now.)

Today's English-language paper features a cartoon with the title: FREE AND FAIR POLLS IN IRAQ

One character is an ugly (but funny) caricature of a Fox News-type media bimbette: blonde hair, huge breasts, pouty mouth, etc.

She's interviewing an equally hideous caricature of an American soldier.

The soldier is saying: "Instead of using ink to guarantee the transparency and fairness of the election, we'll cut the voter's finger off so he can't vote again."

(The cartoon originally appeared in the weekly magazine Faramawy.)