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Rumsfeld Stepping Down
macinrack writes to tell us that Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, architect of the unpopular war in Iraq, intends to resign after six stormy years at the Pentagon. Officials said Robert Gates, former head of the CIA, would replace Rumsfeld.
Standing down?
It's better than nothing I suppose.
Led away in handcuffs to stand trial for his part in crimes against humanity would have been a lot better.
Welcome to 2006... things need to change.
Nation Building should be our NUMBER ONE priority, using military or not. Maybe we need to start training our boys as diplomats instead of as just gun wielding meat heads. No offense, but that's what the US military wants... meat heads, and it pisses me off. This is what you get when you take a bunch of guys who are trained to hate everyone but themselves, and put them in a position of peace keeping. Either we need a separate "Peace keeping force" more akin to streamlined UN forces, or we need to start respecting our boys and not shitting on them in attempts to get them to hate everyone else... soldiers and officers alike.
But "Nation Building" should no longer be a bad term. If we're going to go in and ruin someone's shit, we've gotta be willing to help rebuild it. It's blatantly refusing to take responsibility for our actions, and I'm tired of hearing it used as a bad word.
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RUMSFELD DOWN! Onward to Mordor!
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The timing says everything. With the potential for his agenda to be advanced now gone, he cuts and runs. A good man would have stayed on to finish the job properly no matter how stressful.
He's offered his resignation to Bush on at least three seperate occasions.
Afterall, we were led to believe that the war was at least partly for the benefit of the Iraqi people, who are clearly still suffering.
Is that the fault of the Americans? Or are the Iraqi people causing their own suffering?
However this poor excuse for a man failed to give even a cursory look to the troubled history of Iraq and the enormous problems an invasion would unleash. Either that or this is all very intentional... divide and conquer, and everything.
Yes, Rumsfield is making the Sunni's and Shitte's fight! They would surely get along just fine if America wasn't involved in the middle east!
Yup, that's right folks. If the democrats win, it's fair. If the republicans win, they cheated. Yep. That's good old democracy for you.
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Could you cite this number for Iraqi deaths since the war began? I recall a rather quick repudiation of these numbers after the researcher/theorist proposed them. Amazing how this false number gets a +4, Insightful mod ... wait - it's really not. It's just Slashdot ...
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