Rumsfeld: War May Alienate Muslim Nations...

Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld said Saturday he is concerned that the war in Iraq could alienate people in Southeast Asia's Muslim nations, where he will travel next week.

Speaking to military leaders at an annual security conference, Rumsfeld said that the ill feelings will not force the U.S. to leave Iraq prematurely and that the world eventually will understand that American troops are not there to take over Iraqi oil fields, as some critics have suggested.

"We don't intend to occupy that country for any period of time," Rumsfeld said in response to a question from the audience. "Our troops would like to go home and they will go home."

"And they will go home at a pace when we're able, along with our friends and allies with the coalition, of passing off responsibility to the Iraqi security forces, so they can pull up their socks and take responsibility for their own country."

Rumsfeld took aim at Russia and China for allowing Iran's involvement in the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, a group he said has stated opposition to terrorism and extremists.

He said he finds it "passing strange" to bring the "leading terrorist nation in the world into an organization that says it's against terror."' http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2006/06/02/international/i215103D40.DTL

what a patently odd & "passing strange" man :crazy:

Where the hell has he been?

old cold war plans & blueprints, while he longs for the days when a good blitzkrieg still meant something

an ursine creature is evacuating its bowels. :eyes:

Mind like a steel trap has our Rummy.

Herr Rumsfeld:

If, as you say, "We don't intend to occupy that country for any period of time," then why is the United States building a base of operations.... er, "embassy" in Baghdad the size of Cincinnati? Just wondering....

for to do so...he'd have to tell the truth, which he is congenially disinclined to do

He was amusing for a few months in 2000 but now he is pathetic. Congress should
have Impeached him but they have no courage to do so.

Rumsfeld Shouldn't be Fired, He Should be Indicted
by Matthew Rothschild

“Secretary Rumsfeld has publicly admitted that . . . he ordered an Iraqi national held in Camp Cropper, a high security detention center in Iraq, to be kept off the prison’s rolls and not presented to the International Committee of the Red Cross,” the report noted. The Geneva Conventions require countries to grant the Red Cross access to all detainees. “

http://www.commondreams.org/views06/0418-24.htm

Recently it has been found out that even more detainees were "ghost detainees". The fact that Rumsfeld has not been charged speaks volumes. If Congress wishes to garner any respect they should move forward with Impeachment Declaration of Rumsfeld.

verification is ample & legion = indict!

He's good at that......

:nuke:

DemEx

the multinational oil companies that are there to take over the Iraqi oil fields. Same thing Don.... Six days, six weeks, I doubt six months. ... They'll go home, that's a certainty, if it's in a flag draped box, oh well, that's war for ya. ... When they can pull up their socks? Whay don't you just call them retards Don? ... The leading terrorist nation in the world? Let's do a poll on that one Rummy. Nothing like some Rumsfeld insanity to get the blood up in the morning.

:crazy:

...as MASTER OF THE OBVIOUS!

Jesus. What a clown.

The Plaid Adder

x(

... coming from an alien.