“Not working well.”
By on Dec 2nd, 2006 at 5:25 pm
“Not working well.”
– Donald Rumsfeld, describing his Iraq strategy in a classified memo written two days before he resigned. Rumsfeld added, “In my view it is time for a major adjustment.” Read the full text of the memo HERE.
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Three years too late, “big strategist”.
December 2nd, 2006 at 5:35 pmAh, so Bush didn’t abandon the Rumster. The Rumster abandoned Bush. How’s Barney holding up?
December 2nd, 2006 at 5:56 pmHenny penny, I mean goodness gracious me, am I a strategist?
-GSD
December 2nd, 2006 at 6:01 pm“In my view it is time for a major adjustment.â€
Give Rummy credit! He is finally attuned to the views of 70% of our fellow thinking Americans. What better “major adjustment” than the impeachment of the entire Bushco down to the Bush, both daddy and dummy, appointed Justices and Judges, down to the lowest Republican holdover in the Senate and House. The people, and now Rummy, asked for reform, let them have reform! We have the opportunity, we have the responsibility, lets us have the satisfaction. Impeach them all!
December 2nd, 2006 at 6:10 pm“There are also unknown unknowns . . . The ones we don’t know, we don’t know.” Ya know?
December 2nd, 2006 at 6:11 pmGive Rummy credit! He is finally attuned to the views of 70% of our fellow thinking Americans.
December 2nd, 2006 at 6:13 pm– - Yeah, and eventually a blind squirrel finds an acorn.
So the legacy begins – Rumsfeld admitting a course correction might be needed AND Rice will wait until GWB is out of office before she’ll admit which mistakes were made in Iraq.
December 2nd, 2006 at 6:28 pmPlease R & R tell the nearly 3,000 American families and the untold Iraqi families why so much blood has been shed in the name of your “pride”, arrogance and hubris.
Indeed mistakes were made: in the form of a mushroom ego.
Many a true word is spoken in jest… and while your fat ass is getting hit by the door on the way out.
Adopt a Marine: Send a CARE package to Iraq in time for Xmas.
Details at my place.
December 2nd, 2006 at 6:37 pmI think even daddy Bush wants his son impeached…or to resign…one can only take so much humiliation to the family name….
December 2nd, 2006 at 6:50 pmRummy: It’s not working well, but I won’t do it any other way!
December 2nd, 2006 at 7:12 pmdid dubya see this memo? … would it have pissed him off enough to ask for rummy’s resignation?
is it possible for daddy bush to have his insane son committed?
December 2nd, 2006 at 7:12 pmplease?
From the article:
Provide money to key political and religious leaders (as Saddam Hussein did), to get them to help us get through this difficult period.
Would that be Al-Sadr?
Instead of Vietnam’s “we must destroy the village in order to save it,” today’s version is “we must arm religious fanatics in order to defeat them.”
December 2nd, 2006 at 7:18 pmMajor adjustment? That’s what chiropractors do.
December 2nd, 2006 at 8:11 pmThis frickin disaster needs to END>NOW>!
Nice that he left a critique of his own crappy performance before this senile warmonger left office. Historians are pleased their jobs just got easier.
December 2nd, 2006 at 8:20 pmSad
December 2nd, 2006 at 8:46 pm#12 Hussein was very secular with no trust for the religious. If he provided funds for the religious nuts (Palestinian suicide bombers) it was for his own political well-being.
December 2nd, 2006 at 9:09 pmThere’s something fishy about this. If Rumsfeld actually wrote and sent this one day before the Nov. 7 election, then why did he write this as one of the less favorable options:”Move a large fraction of all U.S. Forces into Baghdad to attempt to control it.” That had already happened at least a MONTH earlier, if not more. A number of his more favorable options actually make some sense. So why was this “classified” memo leaked and who leaked it?
December 2nd, 2006 at 9:19 pm#8 – jurassicpork,
December 2nd, 2006 at 10:32 pmThe thing that I looked forward to in Nam was a Snickers Bar. Even when it flowed out of the wrapper in a shapeless mass, I went into extasy that could have been best described as a romp in the hay with M Monroe or E Taylor. Your list seems a bit short.
But Pentagon and White House officials, speaking on the condition of anonymity, said they believed the timing was coincidental, and that the memo had nothing to do with Rumsfeld’s impending departure or any efforts on his behalf to keep his job.
Well, this confirms it: Rumsfeld was fired because of the memo.
December 2nd, 2006 at 10:55 pm“This is complicated stuff. It’s difficult. We’re looking out into the future. No one can predict the future with absolute certainty.†He added, “So you ought to just back off, take a look at it, relax, understand that it’s complicated, it’s difficult.†– Don Rumsfeld, Oct. 26, 2006.
“In my view it is time for a major adjustment.†– Don Rumsfeld, Nov. 6, 2006
But….but…but…it’s so…complicated.
December 3rd, 2006 at 12:41 amI could care less about when or if this jackass ’saw the light’ – as much as I’ll care about Ms Rice’s assessment of her years in the Bush house.
As much as Rumsfeld likened himself a genius, it’s pretty gawddamned obvious, he isn’t.
As for Rice – the time is now, not later.
THIS is where the media comes in, but these corporate whores won’t because you don’t ‘bite the hand that feeds ya.’
December 3rd, 2006 at 8:02 amSix years to late just like his departure.
December 3rd, 2006 at 10:44 amTHE MASRI CASE
White House Fears ACLU Campaign
By Georg Mascolo in Washington
SPIEGEL ONLINE 2006
Khaled El-Masri was innoncently detained in a secret CIA prison. Now US civil liberties advocates are helping him take the intelligence service to court. His chances of winning the trial are slim — but his case is stirring up negative publicity for the Bush administration.
[Keywords: Rendition, torture, secret CIA prisons, US Department of Justice, George W. Bush, Khaled El-Masri, American Civil Liberties Union]
December 3rd, 2006 at 10:59 amRumsfeld will go down in history as Kissinger did, as McNamara did, all war criminals who will live in the lap of luxury until their dying days, instead of being behind bars as the architects of wholesale murder of innocent civillians.
He will point to this memo as proof that he was “getting it” 3 years too late. Rumsfeld knew he was on his way out and this was his cover.
Bush has that LBJ look about him. That ” I won’t be the first president to lose a war” out-of-touch and delusional thought process. The man is obviously unfit to serve as Commander In Chief.
It isn’t surprising. He’s nothing but a spoiled frat boy who grew up with a silver spoon in his mouth, who showed no interest in foreign affairs, who failed in every business venture he attempted, who suffered from alcoholism until he was 40 years old.
One could go into any town or city in the United States and find a politician involved in local government that would be a more effective world leader then this idiot.
When asked about Bin Laden this moron replied “I don’t even think about him anymore”. He doesn’t think about the man who murdered 3000 Americans. This statement says it all about our Commander In Thief.
December 3rd, 2006 at 11:23 amGoods – “Khaled El-Masri was innoncently detained in a secret CIA prison”
December 3rd, 2006 at 12:43 pmSo the detention was innocent? Or he was innocent?
When you cut and paste so much, it gets confusing what the hell you are trying to say.
“Not working well.â€I think this could be classified as an UNDERSTATEMENT.
December 3rd, 2006 at 1:54 pm“Clearly, what U.S. forces are currently doing in Iraq is not working well enough or fast enough.”
Why does Rumsfeld hate the troops so much?
December 3rd, 2006 at 9:07 pmRumsfeld:
“Does anyone know how to get this damn war machine working?”
“How do I know how to make this shit work,I only build it and sell it to future enemies you fools!”
“Why doesn`t anyone listen to me”
” I always get the shit jobs”
December 3rd, 2006 at 11:51 pm