Rumsfeld: "I'd love to be Santa Claus. I'm not."

FAIRBANKS, Alaska - In a lively but polite give-and-take, Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld fielded questions Saturday from wives and other family members of Alaska-based soldiers whose combat tours in Iraq were abruptly extended just as they prepared to return home this month.

“It is something we don’t want to do,” Rumsfeld told several hundred family members who gathered in a gymnasium at nearby Ft. Wainwright, home of the 172nd Stryker Brigade. The unit’s deployment to Iraq was extended by up to four months to bolster U.S. firepower in the Baghdad area.

“But in this case we had to,” he added, referring to the decision made in late July to extend the 172nd.

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‘I’d love to be Santa Claus’
The brigade’s tour was extended by up to 120 days, bringing them close to a Christmas return date. Rumsfeld said he would make no promises that the full brigade would be back home by the holidays.

“I’d love to be Santa Claus. I’m not,” he said in an interview with reporters during a flight to Fairbanks.


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what a tool.

.... a truly hideous 'man'.:mad: :puke:

There was never a reason for us to invade and attack Iraq.

And the Pentagon is his asylum, which he runs with a paranoid evil eye. And we pay for this doddering, useless fuck.

Rummy Claus has nothing but a shit sandwich in his body bag full of goodies for soldiers and their families.

...just like I'm not holding out hope for him transforming into some other seemingly mythical figure in this Administration: Someone in a position of power over our troops that can actually manage to not ineptly and half-assedly prosecute this war, mistreat our troops, allow discipline to break down till we have Abu Graibs, all of which puts more Iraqis and our soldiers in unnecessary, additional danger.

Guess he never heard of the Powell Doctrine, eh?

Duke

What makes those families think their piddly little problems mean anything to Rumsfeld? Tough it out folks; or blame the liberals. Just don't go crying to the man who's sacrificing your loved ones on the altar of his own vanity.

...the least of his worries...

Duke

Excellent, quick Photoshop! ;)

Duke

cos I'd love for him to be at the North Pole year round!

He ain't no Santy Claws...he also isn't human, either. That man is vile and evil. he scares me.

Your Iraq policy has been a failure since day one, douchebag. How about being a human, admitting your mistakes, and resigning??

That's the only Christmas present I want.

and torture the hell out of everyone on Christmas Day. Fortunately, (for us) America doesn't give him the power...YET.


"I've learned from the best."