Rumsfeld's moral confusion - Democratic Underground

ProSense

(1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Thu Aug-31-06 10:44 AM
Original message

Rumsfeld's moral confusion

Edited on Thu Aug-31-06 10:45 AM by ProSense

"If Mr. Rumsfeld is so concerned with comparisons to World War Two, he should explain why our troops have now been fighting in Iraq longer than it took our forces to defeat the Nazis in Europe." -- Rep. Nancy Pelosi, House of Representatives Democratic Leader

"The sooner Rumsfeld resigns, the safer America will be." -- Rep. Pete Stark of California

"If there is a moral and intellectual confusion about this war, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld is the one that is confused. His overly optimistic mischaracterizations of this war continue to confuse and dishearten Americans." -- Rep. Jack Murtha of Pennsylvania, a decorated Vietnam War veteran and a leading critic of the Iraq war

"After 21 months of trying to find something I can agree with Secretary Rumsfeld on, it is true: the American people are being lied to and I totally agree with Secretary Rumsfeld. What I disagree with is the fact that he's the one doing the lying." -- Eric Massa, a Navy veteran, Democrat

Rumsfeld's initial estimate that the Iraqi war would cost under $50 billion "a gargantuan error" when it's risen to $300 billion and continues to climb after more than three years of fighting.

"It is a grave insult to suggest that Americans who question Secretary Rumsfeld's mismanagement of the conflict in Iraq are somehow not fully committed to standing up to terrorism." -- Senator Ken Salazar of Colorado wrote in a letter to President Bush

"Why do we soldiers have to dig through local landfills for pieces of scrap metal and compromised ballistic glass to uparmor our vehicles?" -- Army Spc. Thomas Wilson of the 278th Regimental Combat Team, Tennessee National Guard

That reliance on slides rather than formal written orders seemed to some military professionals to capture the essence of Rumsfeld’s amateurish approach to war planning. "Here may be the clearest manifestation of OSD’s contempt for the accumulated wisdom of the military profession and of the assumption among forward thinkers that technology—above all information technology—has rendered obsolete the conventions traditionally governing the preparation and conduct of war," commented retired Army Col. Andrew Bacevich, a former commander of an armored cavalry regiment. "To imagine that PowerPoint slides can substitute for such means is really the height of recklessness." It was like telling an automobile mechanic to use a manufacturer’s glossy sales brochure to figure out how to repair an engine.

"As you know, you have to go to war with the Army you have, not the Army you want." -- Donald Rumsfeld, the man who ‘Served Up Our Great Military A Huge Bowl of Chicken Feces’

Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top

Cassandra

(1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Thu Aug-31-06 10:49 AM
Response to Original message

1. Rumsfeld is Bin Laden's favorite appeaser.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/2984547.stm

"Saudi Arabia is home to some of Islam's holiest sites and the deployment of US forces there was seen as a historic betrayal by many Islamists, notably Osama Bin Laden.
Osama Bin Laden

It is one of the main reasons given by the Saudi-born dissident - blamed by Washington for the 11 September attacks - to justify violence against the United States and its allies.

But news of the US pull-out does not mean the campaign is over for Bin Laden and his followers, according to the BBC's Arab affairs analyst Magdi Abdelhadi.

Their agenda now goes beyond the boundaries of one country, he says. Their goal is to liberate all Muslim societies from foreign troops and what they see as ungodly secular rulers. "

Rummy was happy to jump through Osama's hoop.

Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top

ProSense

(1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Thu Aug-31-06 11:51 AM
Response to Original message

2. Zakaria: Rumsfeld ‘Seems In A Parallel Universe and Slightly Deranged’

Zakaria: Rumsfeld ‘Seems In A Parallel Universe and Slightly Deranged’

Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top

nancyr

(1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Thu Aug-31-06 11:58 AM
Response to Reply #2

3. The man is insane!

Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top

CollegeDUer

(452 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Thu Aug-31-06 11:59 AM
Response to Reply #2

4. Even the prowar folks are digging into him

aren't they? I mean Hilary, Zakaria, I think even the PNACers..

Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top

ProSense

(1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Fri Sep-01-06 12:09 PM
Response to Original message

5. DNC: Rumsfeld is Wrong ... Repeatedly

Rumsfeld is Wrong ... Repeatedly

Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top

DU AdBot (1000+ posts)

Wed Apr 24th 2024, 04:32 AM
Response to Original message

Advertisements [?]

Top

Powered by DCForum+ Version 1.1 Copyright 1997-2002 DCScripts.com
Software has been extensively modified by the DU administrators

Important Notices: By participating on this discussion board, visitors agree to abide by the rules outlined on our Rules page. Messages posted on the Democratic Underground Discussion Forums are the opinions of the individuals who post them, and do not necessarily represent the opinions of Democratic Underground, LLC.