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		<title>By: Think Progress &#187; RNC Attacks President Bush, Donald Rumsfeld, and Gen. Richard Myers</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2006/12/12/rumsfeld-iraq-terror/comment-page-3/#comment-3390406</link>
		<dc:creator>Think Progress &#187; RNC Attacks President Bush, Donald Rumsfeld, and Gen. Richard Myers</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Apr 2007 20:17:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] Donald Rumsfeld: &#8220;I don&#8217;t think I would have called it the war on terror. &#8230; Why do I say that? Because the word &#8216;war&#8217; conjures up World War II more than it does the Cold War. It creates a level of expectation of victory and an ending within 30 or 60 minutes of a soap opera. It isn&#8217;t going to happen that way. Furthermore, it is not a &#8216;war on terror.&#8217; Terror is a weapon of choice for extremists who are trying to destabilize regimes and (through) a small group of clerics, impose their dark vision on all the people they can control. So &#8216;war on terror&#8217; is a problem for me.&#8221; [Link] [...]</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>[...] Donald Rumsfeld: &#8220;I don&#8217;t think I would have called it the war on terror. &#8230; Why do I say that? Because the word &#8216;war&#8217; conjures up World War II more than it does the Cold War. It creates a level of expectation of victory and an ending within 30 or 60 minutes of a soap opera. It isn&#8217;t going to happen that way. Furthermore, it is not a &#8216;war on terror.&#8217; Terror is a weapon of choice for extremists who are trying to destabilize regimes and (through) a small group of clerics, impose their dark vision on all the people they can control. So &#8216;war on terror&#8217; is a problem for me.&#8221; [Link] [...]<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=3390406', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: Peter Gaffney</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2006/12/12/rumsfeld-iraq-terror/comment-page-3/#comment-1277096</link>
		<dc:creator>Peter Gaffney</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 16 Dec 2006 02:17:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Is it just me, or is Rumsfeld actually beginning to LOOK like Robert McNamara?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Is it just me, or is Rumsfeld actually beginning to LOOK like Robert McNamara?<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=1277096', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: Roger The Okcitykid</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2006/12/12/rumsfeld-iraq-terror/comment-page-3/#comment-1269762</link>
		<dc:creator>Roger The Okcitykid</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Dec 2006 15:34:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Excellent article, hope everyone reads it.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Excellent article, hope everyone reads it.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=1269762', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: Roger The Okcitykid</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2006/12/12/rumsfeld-iraq-terror/comment-page-3/#comment-1269758</link>
		<dc:creator>Roger The Okcitykid</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Dec 2006 15:33:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Excellent article,

Thanks, I hope everyone reads this</description>
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<p>Thanks, I hope everyone reads this<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=1269758', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: Bruce Gorton</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2006/12/12/rumsfeld-iraq-terror/comment-page-3/#comment-1266665</link>
		<dc:creator>Bruce Gorton</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Dec 2006 16:14:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Joeslogic

Actually, all you have achieved is making yourself look like an idiot. The basic crux of the Left&#039;s POV here is that we were demonised for saying the exact same thing as Rumsfeld said just now, by Rumsfeld - way back when he was calling it the &quot;War on terror.&quot;

Of course, righties just do not have any sort of capacity for memory, logic, or intellegence so they have to &lt;em&gt;pretend&lt;/em&gt; that they have a point.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Joeslogic</p>
<p>Actually, all you have achieved is making yourself look like an idiot. The basic crux of the Left&#8217;s POV here is that we were demonised for saying the exact same thing as Rumsfeld said just now, by Rumsfeld &#8211; way back when he was calling it the &#8220;War on terror.&#8221;</p>
<p>Of course, righties just do not have any sort of capacity for memory, logic, or intellegence so they have to <em>pretend</em> that they have a point.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=1266665', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: null</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2006/12/12/rumsfeld-iraq-terror/comment-page-3/#comment-1266443</link>
		<dc:creator>null</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Dec 2006 13:39:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I think analysing what rumfield says searching for something meaningful is kind of a waste of time.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I think analysing what rumfield says searching for something meaningful is kind of a waste of time.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=1266443', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: a crank&#8217;s progress :: links for 2006-12-13</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2006/12/12/rumsfeld-iraq-terror/comment-page-3/#comment-1265939</link>
		<dc:creator>a crank&#8217;s progress :: links for 2006-12-13</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Dec 2006 08:30:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] Think Progress Â» Rumsfeld: â€˜It Is Not A War on Terrorâ€™ what happens inside the bubble stays inside the bubble? (tags: war iraq 9/11 terra) [...]</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>[...] Think Progress Â» Rumsfeld: â€˜It Is Not A War on Terrorâ€™ what happens inside the bubble stays inside the bubble? (tags: war iraq 9/11 terra) [...]<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=1265939', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: anwaya</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2006/12/12/rumsfeld-iraq-terror/comment-page-3/#comment-1265623</link>
		<dc:creator>anwaya</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Dec 2006 05:16:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Rummy did try to change the nomenclature over a year ago: he made an ill-fated attempt to change the name of the Global War on Terrrr (G-WOT, so easy for Bush to remember) to G-SAVE, the Global Struggle against Violent Extremism.

So this isn&#039;t a new position for him. It&#039;s just now he isn&#039;t going to get chewed out b y the boss.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Rummy did try to change the nomenclature over a year ago: he made an ill-fated attempt to change the name of the Global War on Terrrr (G-WOT, so easy for Bush to remember) to G-SAVE, the Global Struggle against Violent Extremism.</p>
<p>So this isn&#8217;t a new position for him. It&#8217;s just now he isn&#8217;t going to get chewed out b y the boss.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=1265623', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: Joeslogic</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2006/12/12/rumsfeld-iraq-terror/comment-page-3/#comment-1265611</link>
		<dc:creator>Joeslogic</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Dec 2006 05:09:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>The reaction here on think just goes to show how little the left does actually think. Rummy is not denying it is a war but that the context in which the phrase is twisted implies a different kind of war. If you listen to the speeches after 911 you can easily see that the referenced war is akin to that of the Cold War. This is a war in which either we prevail or we become slaves to Sheria law. 

Lefties are idiots it&#039;s silly that I should even have to explain this.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The reaction here on think just goes to show how little the left does actually think. Rummy is not denying it is a war but that the context in which the phrase is twisted implies a different kind of war. If you listen to the speeches after 911 you can easily see that the referenced war is akin to that of the Cold War. This is a war in which either we prevail or we become slaves to Sheria law. </p>
<p>Lefties are idiots it&#8217;s silly that I should even have to explain this.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=1265611', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: Bruce Gorton</title>
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		<dc:creator>Bruce Gorton</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Dec 2006 05:07:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>criticalthinker 

The two big towers were hit at precisely the wrong point. Had it been a bit higher up the towers would not have collapsed - they basically jackhammered down.

The tower that wasn&#039;t hit that collapsed was already condemned, and I am guessing with good reason. 

While there could have been explosives in the two towers, it is unlikely in my view from the fact that if such were the case the administration would not have wasted the planes. Bombs would have been just as effective, and in some ways more so - they could have pretended that they never caught the bombers and need all sorts of extra powers in order to capture the bombers, in essence being able to make what they did anyway legal and far less contraversial.

Realise that Al Qaeada has used bombs before, and some ingenous bomb makers. A demolition of the two towers would have been well within their modus operandi.

Note that I am not saying that there is nothing to investigate in your claims, only that I personally have my doubts and can see how the official report could have reached its conclusions. Note also, that I feel the official report is incomplete and being kept incomplete by the Whitehouse, which I seriously and honestly believe is engaged in a cover-up. Whether that cover-up is based around 9/11 being a product of their malice or incompetence is debateable, that there are clearly questions in need of answering is not really.</description>
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<p>The two big towers were hit at precisely the wrong point. Had it been a bit higher up the towers would not have collapsed &#8211; they basically jackhammered down.</p>
<p>The tower that wasn&#8217;t hit that collapsed was already condemned, and I am guessing with good reason. </p>
<p>While there could have been explosives in the two towers, it is unlikely in my view from the fact that if such were the case the administration would not have wasted the planes. Bombs would have been just as effective, and in some ways more so &#8211; they could have pretended that they never caught the bombers and need all sorts of extra powers in order to capture the bombers, in essence being able to make what they did anyway legal and far less contraversial.</p>
<p>Realise that Al Qaeada has used bombs before, and some ingenous bomb makers. A demolition of the two towers would have been well within their modus operandi.</p>
<p>Note that I am not saying that there is nothing to investigate in your claims, only that I personally have my doubts and can see how the official report could have reached its conclusions. Note also, that I feel the official report is incomplete and being kept incomplete by the Whitehouse, which I seriously and honestly believe is engaged in a cover-up. Whether that cover-up is based around 9/11 being a product of their malice or incompetence is debateable, that there are clearly questions in need of answering is not really.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=1265607', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: johnd</title>
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		<dc:creator>johnd</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Dec 2006 04:31:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>We&#039;re doomed. If you&#039;re a wage earning worker and you make one too many errors in judgement, (e.g. underestimate the time it will take for a morning cummute, fail to follow some work procedure exactly, or make some customer service gaffe) your manager has every incentive to cast you aside and hire a fresh loyal idiot at enrty level pay. The errors are small but the consequesnces are dire.

On the other hand if you are the highest level manager of the US Defense Department arguably the largest, most powerful enterprise on the planet and you make many obvious heinous errors and a documented record of misleading your &quot;shareholders&quot; (us citizens), you not only don&#039;t feel any negative personal reprecussions for your bad acts, you don&#039;t even have to admit them.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>We&#8217;re doomed. If you&#8217;re a wage earning worker and you make one too many errors in judgement, (e.g. underestimate the time it will take for a morning cummute, fail to follow some work procedure exactly, or make some customer service gaffe) your manager has every incentive to cast you aside and hire a fresh loyal idiot at enrty level pay. The errors are small but the consequesnces are dire.</p>
<p>On the other hand if you are the highest level manager of the US Defense Department arguably the largest, most powerful enterprise on the planet and you make many obvious heinous errors and a documented record of misleading your &#8220;shareholders&#8221; (us citizens), you not only don&#8217;t feel any negative personal reprecussions for your bad acts, you don&#8217;t even have to admit them.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=1264869', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: Liberal AND Proud</title>
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		<dc:creator>Liberal AND Proud</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Dec 2006 04:21:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Rummy just following the first GOP commandment.

Never let the facts get in the way.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Rummy just following the first GOP commandment.</p>
<p>Never let the facts get in the way.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=1264767', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: JPark</title>
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		<dc:creator>JPark</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Dec 2006 02:07:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Jason, wipe your lip please.  That is unseemly.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Jason, wipe your lip please.  That is unseemly.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=1264098', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: tofubo</title>
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		<dc:creator>tofubo</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Dec 2006 01:08:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>it&#039;s not a war &lt;em&gt;on&lt;/em&gt; terror

it&#039;s a war &lt;em&gt;of&lt;/em&gt; terror, it&#039;s a never ending war on a transitive adverb, it&#039;s a redistribution of wealth to the patriots and pioneers, it&#039;s creating the future enemies of the future wars we will need to fight against, rinse, repeat</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>it&#8217;s not a war <em>on</em> terror</p>
<p>it&#8217;s a war <em>of</em> terror, it&#8217;s a never ending war on a transitive adverb, it&#8217;s a redistribution of wealth to the patriots and pioneers, it&#8217;s creating the future enemies of the future wars we will need to fight against, rinse, repeat<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=1263985', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: ForTruth</title>
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		<dc:creator>ForTruth</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Dec 2006 01:01:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Flint, that&#039;s spam by now.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Flint, that&#8217;s spam by now.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=1263972', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: Flint</title>
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		<dc:creator>Flint</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Dec 2006 00:42:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>The black community is now at its weakest point since prior to the civil rights legislation in the 1965. Women are quickly following, with only hispanics gaining incredible power. This is possible, because Dems have a lock on the black vote, as well as a significant percent of the female vote. 

And Obama and Charlie Wrangle don&#039;t exist. and we (Rethugs) didn&#039;t just 
suffer a defeat of historic purportions in the last election. 

Ignore the truth,
look at the shiny object swinging back and forth, back and forth......</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The black community is now at its weakest point since prior to the civil rights legislation in the 1965. Women are quickly following, with only hispanics gaining incredible power. This is possible, because Dems have a lock on the black vote, as well as a significant percent of the female vote. </p>
<p>And Obama and Charlie Wrangle don&#8217;t exist. and we (Rethugs) didn&#8217;t just<br />
suffer a defeat of historic purportions in the last election. </p>
<p>Ignore the truth,<br />
look at the shiny object swinging back and forth, back and forth&#8230;&#8230;<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=1263896', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: Terminus Est</title>
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		<dc:creator>Terminus Est</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Dec 2006 23:50:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Rummy is a bastard, yes indeed.  He is heavily responsible for the debacle that is Iraq as well as torture of &quot;enemy combatants&quot; (while Bush/Cheney are responsible for the actual war crime/crime against humanity that was the original act of aggression against Iraq) but there are always potential &lt;i&gt;good things&lt;/i&gt; to come from top officials falling out of government.  Rummy has juicy information.  Rummy, whether in a fit of pique or in an act of desperation to (hopelessly) save his name in history could dump a LOT of information that is harmful to Bush/Cheney/Rice/Gonzales.  

I dearly hope that he does try to save his place in history and actually starts talking, or letting little blurbs out here and there, as he fades into infamy.  Perhaps he could write a tell-all book...</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Rummy is a bastard, yes indeed.  He is heavily responsible for the debacle that is Iraq as well as torture of &#8220;enemy combatants&#8221; (while Bush/Cheney are responsible for the actual war crime/crime against humanity that was the original act of aggression against Iraq) but there are always potential <i>good things</i> to come from top officials falling out of government.  Rummy has juicy information.  Rummy, whether in a fit of pique or in an act of desperation to (hopelessly) save his name in history could dump a LOT of information that is harmful to Bush/Cheney/Rice/Gonzales.  </p>
<p>I dearly hope that he does try to save his place in history and actually starts talking, or letting little blurbs out here and there, as he fades into infamy.  Perhaps he could write a tell-all book&#8230;<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=1263773', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: Larry from C</title>
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		<dc:creator>Larry from C</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Dec 2006 23:21:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Rumsfeld is right.  Iraq has nothing to do with fighting terror.  Iraq is an illegal immoral war, now an occupation, that has most certainly increased the number of Middle Easterners who want to do the U.S. harm.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Rumsfeld is right.  Iraq has nothing to do with fighting terror.  Iraq is an illegal immoral war, now an occupation, that has most certainly increased the number of Middle Easterners who want to do the U.S. harm.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=1263695', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: MantisBot</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2006/12/12/rumsfeld-iraq-terror/comment-page-2/#comment-1263662</link>
		<dc:creator>MantisBot</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Dec 2006 23:10:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Criticalthinker:

&quot;&lt;em&gt;Maybe you can show me how to drop a metal filing cabinet 20 feet and have it turn into dust, because I dropped one out of my attic three stories (more than 20 feet) on to the driveway, but it did not turn into dust, what am I doing wrong?&lt;/em&gt;&quot;

Obviously you forgot to set your ray-gun on disintegrate *duh*.

Either that or you forgot to coat everything in a fine nitroglycerin-based paint.  It&#039;s a common mistake.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Criticalthinker:</p>
<p>&#8220;<em>Maybe you can show me how to drop a metal filing cabinet 20 feet and have it turn into dust, because I dropped one out of my attic three stories (more than 20 feet) on to the driveway, but it did not turn into dust, what am I doing wrong?</em>&#8221;</p>
<p>Obviously you forgot to set your ray-gun on disintegrate *duh*.</p>
<p>Either that or you forgot to coat everything in a fine nitroglycerin-based paint.  It&#8217;s a common mistake.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=1263662', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: WaltTheMan</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2006/12/12/rumsfeld-iraq-terror/comment-page-2/#comment-1263646</link>
		<dc:creator>WaltTheMan</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Dec 2006 23:04:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Rummey is striking back because he was a loyal soldier for six years. Cheney was the prime puppet master in the run-up to &quot;Shock and Awe&quot;.
W lapped it up like the discards of society down Thunderbird. On Monday, Rummey was told that he had a job that would last until January 2009. On Wednesday, he was told to pack his bags and leave. He, like Powell, will spill a few beans. Actually, Karl should have first been shown the door, deflated pundit that he is. But then, Karl may have more to show and tell.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Rummey is striking back because he was a loyal soldier for six years. Cheney was the prime puppet master in the run-up to &#8220;Shock and Awe&#8221;.<br />
W lapped it up like the discards of society down Thunderbird. On Monday, Rummey was told that he had a job that would last until January 2009. On Wednesday, he was told to pack his bags and leave. He, like Powell, will spill a few beans. Actually, Karl should have first been shown the door, deflated pundit that he is. But then, Karl may have more to show and tell.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=1263646', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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