I'll take a stab at this PW.....<br /><br /><br />1. He defies the enemy.<br />2. He defies the Media.<br /><br />"Mission accomplished" sounds pretty good for me if that was the objective. Tell me what you would expect after that? Maybe a scandal with a female intern..?<br /><br />Maybe thats why Rummy (is not) looking for a job in any place you've ever been.
<br /><br /><br />I think I have an answer as to why Rummy is not currently looking for a job(a new one that is). W keeps him for the same reason he hired him. W needs, at the very minimum, one person to look like a bigger idiot than himself(W). I guess I would call Rummy an idiot protector.<br /><br />As to the reason Rummy has not yet jumped ship...well, he could never swim on his own. He needs some help from a friend(W).I like this answer because it applies to the times and all that has given US problems the past 100 years.<br />The adversity of Saddam to his people was to forge them to accept his rule or make them seek freedom with all their soul. We interupted that process. Obviously they were not capable of freedom or they were not ready for it. <br /><br />John Adams: <br /><br />"People and nations are forged in the fires of adversity." <br /><br />"Wherever the standard of freedom and independence has been or shall be unfurled, there will be America's heart, her benedictions and prayers, but she goes not abroad in search of monsters to destroy. She is the well-wisher to the freedom and independence of all. She is the champion and vindicator of her own."<br /><br />President Adams response was both better and different.
Well you might want to let Rumsfeld know because the shift is towards Tehran not towards Damascus.<br /><br />Quite a few references to Vietnam and communist threats. Before his death the then Sec. of Defense Robert McNamara during Vietnam explained of the lies/deceptions/blunders and mistakes of Vietnam. I mentioned the 30% in-denial could be cross referenced to 30% that still believe Vietnam was vital to our national defense.<br /><br />
Man by nature is a social creature and "freedom" is relative. Americans are said to be the most "free" in the world. Yet many Americans are perfectly happy to give away freedom for a handout, security, money, drugs, sex.....or $1.59 @gallon of gasoline.<br /><br />
That's fine, then make it your only selling point to go to war and see if it flys. See if it flys with your countrymen. Don't dress it up with mobile labs, aluminum tubes, Al quida connection, etc,.<br />And don't forget to ask the young men and the parents of those young men if that is enough.<br /><br />I'm sure going to hate it when there are more Americans killed over there than were Kurds gassed.
What's pathetic is the Kurds were gassed by materials provided by US. What's pathetic is we are the would's largest weapons systems exporter.<br />Pathetic is going to your maker preaching you support the oppressed while ignoring who supplies the means to oppress, AND GAS the innocent. We've been selling a lot of weapons to African nations lately and most aren't very DEMOCRATIC.<br />Hardly "old-history".<br /><br />This has nothing at all to do with your dad. <br />Give him an atta boy for me and know that you're here because Hitler wasn't bombing Omaha beach with B-17's. And he dang sure wasn't there saving Jews from gas we supplied to him.<br /><br />I don't have a problem fighting for freedom. But I'm having a real hard time fighting for whims, folly and political games in the name of freedom.<br />Maybe you should move if you can't recognise the difference?
