Rumsfeld Bares His Fangs [MSNBC]

[truthisfreedom]

Rumsfeld Bares His Fangs

By Evan Thomas and Tamara Lipper
NEWSWEEK
 
Oct. 20 issue —  Defense secretary Donald Rumsfeld is known for his brusqueness with the press. But for Rumsfeld to be snippy with reporters about national-security adviser Condoleezza Rice was, to say the least, unusual and noteworthy. Pundits and their unnamed sources may speculate about rivalries or bad blood between members of President George W. Bush’s war cabinet, but the principals themselves—Rumsfeld and Rice, Vice President Dick Cheney and Secretary of State Colin Powell—have for the most part been very careful not to speak ill of each other to reporters, or even hint at any personal differences.

        THAT IS THE way President Bush, who values loyalty and dislikes the Washington game, wants it to be. But last week Rumsfeld let his mask slip for a moment and bared his teeth at a colleague. It was one of those moments of Washington theater that, while stylized and partly in code, spoke volumes about longstanding rifts in Bush’s foreign-policy team. That these divisions are now surfacing publicly may be related to Bush’s poll standings, which have dropped 20 points in the past four months—largely because of public dissatisfaction over postwar Iraq.
        Rumsfeld was meeting with a round table of foreign journalists at a NATO conference at the U.S. Air Force Academy last week, when a reporter asked him about a New York Times article that morning. The article, by David Sanger, the Times’s well-wired White House correspondent, stated that “the White House has ordered a major reorganization” of the reconstruction efforts in Iraq and Afghanistan. “Senior administration officials” had told the Times that a new “Iraq Stabilization Group” would be run out of the White House by national-security adviser Rice.
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[JeebusH]

1. maybe if Dumsfeld spent the time changing Georgie's diaper like Condi did

he would still be in charge ... but don't worry Donny D., after Condi is done you'll look FDR and Truman all wrap in one

[newyawker99]

16. Hi JeebusH!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

[Noordam]

2. link???

[Judi Lynn]

3. Here ya go

Rumsfeld Bares His Fangs

http://www.msnbc.com/news/979244.asp

[truthisfreedom]

5. sorry, i thought the link was in there.

http://www.msnbc.com/news/979244.asp

[dbt]

4. Interesting metaphor, this "fangs" bidness.

Would those be the fangs of a tiger or those of a snake?

(Daring bit <pun fully intended> of wordplay, Newsweak/BSNBC!)

:evilgrin:
dbt

Do I mean to say Rumsfeld is a reptile? You decide.

[Judi Lynn]

6. Gee, it's hard to tell!

Do reptiles have LIPS?

[pretzel4gore]

8. this pig's 70 years old?

my foster dad died at 64, a w war2 veteran who was badly injured in the war and was still working at the time.......
bygod i hate these bastards!

[Equinox]

17. Don't insult reptiles like that....

n/t

[Raenelle]

19. Chimpy has no lips either. Course, neither do I.

This is one club I never wanted to belong to.

[Pompitous_Of_Love]

7. He's mammalian

Definitely the fangs of a weasel.

[snippy]

13. I call him Weasel Ass.

[TheWebHead]

10. fangs of something much more dangerous than a tiger or a snake....

a Republican.

[Flubadubya]

11. More like fangs of a vampire...

Rumsferatu IS one of the living dead, you know!

[punpirate]

9. Geez... from the article title...

... I thought they meant he was going trick-or-treating as himself....

[0007]

12. "whiff of bitterness"

They all stink of imperiousness, not one over the other.

[teryang]

14. "Postwar Iraq?"

WTF???? There's an Orwellian phrase. Hello!!! The "war" isn't over. If you think or say that it is you are untethered from reality.

[Cat Atomic]

15. "Pres. Bush, who values loyalty and dislikes the Washington game"

HUH? Loyalty? He's a fucking traitor, from a long line of traitors. His administration outed a CIA operative, compromising National Security for a little political payback. He's lied to the country to start a war that's bad for everyone on earth but his immediate circle of friends.

He *IS* the "Washington game".

[Junkdrawer]

18. Picking between Rumsfeld and Rice is like Cholera vs. The Plague…

But wouldn't it be nice if they destroyed each other?

[Oreegone]

20. Ha Ha Ha "Bares his fangs"

He is now a small Chiuahua barking in the corner.

[bobthedrummer]

21. Vintage Rumsfeld in Iraq with 1st Armor at lunch

http://www.dod.mil/transcripts/2003/tr20030906-secdef0654.html

He's not insane though.