U.S. military too strong to lose Iraq war: Rumsfeld

the wheels are falling off the wagon and the glad-happy fool says push on. rumpledick

By Kristin Roberts

forgot link: sorry http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/iraq_usa_rumsfeld_dc;_ylt=A9G_RxZL8zVFrYMBSgSs0NUE;_ylu=X3oDMTA2Z2szazkxBHNlYwN0bQ--


WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said on Tuesday the U.S. military is too strong to lose the war in Iraq, but ultimately political solutions will be needed to win.

"You've got a situation where it's not possible to lose militarily," Rumsfeld said. "It's also going to require more than military power to prevail."

Rumsfeld, in comments to reporters at the Pentagon, said U.S. training of security forces in Iraq had been "rushed" but that placing U.S. trainers within the Iraqi police force would gradually boost Iraq's ability to reduce violence on its own.

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Rumsfeld also declined to comment on a statement from Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman John Warner, a key Republican from Virginia, that the United States might have to consider a change of course if the Iraqi government fails to restore order within two or three months.

It's green army men to him. If the entire populace of Iraq turns on us, then yes, we can very well lose militarily, not just diplomatically. What are we going to do? Kill everybody? That sort of victory is still a loss, because nothing is gained by burning the village behind you.

all the Iraqi. the war, its a cooked goose, ka-poot, finny, over. And so many lives lost that the world body politic will have to do something to them who waged this war, not the battlers tho.

... if you were a Dem politician, you'd be crucified for that phrase.

Hannity: He says our boys can't do their job!
Colmes: I think you're taking this out of context a little, and -
Hannity: 'We can lose.' Not only that, 'VERY WELL lose.' So our brave servicemen and women are not just losers, but big losers. Isn't that what CarbonDate says?
Colmes: Sure, Sean.

Limbaugh: Carbondate wants our boys to lose, that's all there is to it. And with a name like that, I bet he believes in palentology. More right after my fix.

Coulter: Now, that's the kind of traitorous - not it's blasphemy. And it's about time to start crucifying these kinds of - it all goes back to Clinton and the perverse seed of - but that's old ground and everybody knows Clinton, Foley, Carbondate, and the whole unAmerican - and you know if just makes me sick. Watch my Adam's apple twitch when I talk about these sickos.

Every MSM talking head: Tune in for more about the CarbonDate scandal: what was said, and why he thinks our military isn't really up to snuff.

Peace!

the truth should only be told when it's convenient for democrats!

anyone talking about the risks of invading Iraq. In the NeoCon mind it was surely a no-lose thing.

I wonder what Rummy's objective du jour is? And I wonder, since he says he can't lose, if he would be willing to try to tell us exactly what his definition of losing is. He won't because he doesn't know.

"It could last, you know, six days, six weeks. I doubt six months."
-rumsfeld, Feb 7, 2003

"The idea that it's going to be a long, long, long battle of some kind I think is belied by the fact of what happened in 1990. Five days or five weeks or five months, but it certainly isn't going to last any longer than that."
-rumsfeld, Nov. 15, 2002

"My belief is we will, in fact, be greeted as liberators. . . . I think it will go relatively quickly, . . . weeks rather than months."
Mar. 16, 2003 Dick Cheney

"We've reached a great turning point."
-Bush, 11/2003

"A turning point will come two weeks from today."
-Bush, 6/2004

"Good news to the men and women who fought ... their mission is complete."
-Bush, 5/2005.

"The elections were the turning point. … 2005 was the turning point."
-Cheney, 12/2005

"2005 will be recorded as a turning point in the history of Iraq ... and the history of freedom."
-Bush, 12/2005

"Two days ahead of schedule, the world witnessed the arrival of a free and sovereign Iraq."
-Cheney, 6/2004

"I don't do quagmires."
-Rumsfeld, 7/2003

enough, we are committing war crimes in Iraq, and ethic cleansing.

You'd think the Regime would remember the lessons they learned when they were there. Oops! Nevermind...

:freak:
dbt
Remember New Orleans

These people seem to win or sort of fade away after they get some of the things they want.

in 1776.
Damn insurgents.

The Iraq war was declared over on May 1, 2003. Dumbo strapped on his codpiece, watched the guy to his left catch a 3 wire, and said on the deck of the USS Lincoln.

We cannot lose militarily because we are not being challenged militarily.

Unfortunately, as he states, our military cannot control the situation there.

So, Rummy, why the hell is our military still in Iraq?

And it's all on Rumsfeld.

I would love to see both Cheney and Rumsfeld both go down together, they are joined at the hip anyway. I hate these people.