Rumsfeld: 'Bet Your Life' Threat to U.S. Is Serious

[LynneSin]

Rumsfeld: 'Bet Your Life' Threat to U.S. Is Serious
By Will Dunham

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Pentagon (news - web sites) on Tuesday conducted an exercise to prepare for a terror attack and widened warplane patrols around the United States amid fresh concern about threats to nuclear power plants and other vital infrastructure facilities.

Two days after the U.S. government raised its terror alert to the second-highest level, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld emphasized the gravity of the threat.

"You ask, 'Is it serious?' Yes, you bet your life. People don't do that unless it's a serious situation," Rumsfeld told a Pentagon briefing.

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What a jackass. Does this type of idiotic quoting serve a purpose other than to ruin the holidays for Americans. Rumsfeld is an idiot!!!!

[VolcanoJen]

1. Linky? (n/t)

:D

[LynneSin]

5. Whoops - here's the link

http://personal.news.yahoo.com/us/news/ratings/getavgrate.html?locale=us&prop=news&rateid=nm/20031224/security_usa_threat_dc&type=T&cat=564&ncid=

[NNN0LHI]

32. Here is a faster working link

http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=topNews&storyID=4039373

[Old and In the Way]

2. Or unless they desperately want to keep us distracted with fear.

Rummy, you have cold feet, like Condi, on testifying under oath in front of the 9/11 commission?

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

3. Well if they did an exercise on power plants then ten bucks says the

Bushistas are planning to blow San Onofre...i mean, they practiced with planes and buildings prior to 9/11

[TankLV]

4. If it's so serious, then why hasn't ANYONE from our SS contacted Las Vegas

or Nevada state officials as of yet.

And Vegas is one of 3 specific targeted cities mentioned by the idiots-in-charge.

No one.

Nada.

Could it be that as soon as he receives any info, Gov. Guinn (a "republican" in the old school, BTW) plans to go public with EVERYTHING that was communicated.

This political sham is sickening and getting old real fast!

[stevedeshazer]

6. Rummy: Be afraid

Fear, fear, fear.

"I can't tell you what to be afraid of, that's jut not possible. Is it serious? Yes! Could it cause massive loss of life? Well, of course! My goodness gracious, we have an obligation here to the American people! Why, the Germans in 1940 were able to mobilize in a hurry!"</sarcasm>

Happy &^#$*)_* Holidays!

[grytpype]

7. But I thought we were safe!!!!

What happened?

[otohara]

8. Hey, Is Anybody You Know hiding under chairs and hoping it will go away?

But Rumsfeld said Americans should not cower in fear.

"We shouldn't sit around, you know, hiding under chairs and hoping it will go away.


I wish this administration would all go away, far, far away.

[Pegleg Thd]

9. I have figured out a way to tell

if bush, rummy, chaney, powell,riceburner, and all the rest are lying. Their lips are moving!!! Rummy was doing it again this time.

[Hand]

10. I ask...

are these the words of a pernicious egomaniac? You bet they are.

Can we believe a word he says? My gracious, no. The man's a menace. (chuckle)

Would this be a better world if he had a massive myocardial infarction? Well, of course. You hardly need ask that.

Etc., etc.

[stevedeshazer]

11. You've got the idea!

Rummyspeak

[0007]

14. Pernicious egomaniac, may be right on!

What I find interesting about Rummy is the way he moves his arms and hands to particularize his details as if we all knew what his sign language is all about.

[newsjunkie]

23. great job at Rummyspeak LOL

That makes me sick the way he asks himself dumb questions and then answers them. My goodness gracious!:eyes:
What makes me even sicker is Im starting to notice other bushites on tv using this speaking style too. It reminds me of when Bush 1 was in office and all the bushites on tv started copying him saying "Look it"-blah blah blah yada yada. They would attach it to almost everything they said. Lookit!! Lookit!

They are like trained monkeys.

[saigon68]

31. NO THEY ARE TRAINED CHIMPANZEES

Ejected from the same mold, as the Chief Chimp himself.

[Code_Name_D]

12. Been crying wolf one to many times there Rummy.

Be afraide, but we are making progress. They will attack any day now! But we are safer than 9-11. More "background noise" than before. But we never saw it comming. Be extravigulent... for shopping opertunities.

This old Kansas has seen tonadoes with less spin.

[LynneSin]

27. WOLF!!!! WOLF!!!!!! WOLF!!!!!!

Yeah, how many more times will we be able to cry this and expect everyone to come running in fear

:shrug:

[hellhathnofury]

13. Guess that means the futures market is up and running. n/t

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

15. good one!

:thumbsup:

[cliss]

16. It makes me very nervous when I

hear this murdering monstrosity refer to "you bet YOUR life". I get chills when I hear him referring to my life.

This is the man who values life about as much as a peanut shell on the floor of the local tavern.

Don't refer to me, Rummy.

[Cocoa]

17. this is a relief

I thought maybe this alert might be legit, but this quote from Rummy really makes it look like all that fake stuff they're always doing. It just has that feel.

[WhereIsMyFreedom]

18. Can I bet his life?

If there is no terrorist attack then Rummy's life is mine, all mine! Well, ok, I'll share him with DU. ;)

[Old and In the Way]

21. Well, we've lost 3000 on 9/11 and about 500 in Iraq to date.

I wish we could tell 'em that if you lose one more, you forfeit yours. Maybe that'd get them focused properly.

[koopie57]

19. Fortunately this administration

is so arrogant that they might not realize how many people just blow this stuff off. I fear that one day they may catch on and make sure something will happen for real.

[Virginian]

20. It could be real...

Dubya has left town.

[newsjunkie]

26. no terrorists in Crawford?

I wonder if they'll try to target somewhere in Texas since Toostupid is from here. Seems like they could do it pretty easy in or around Houston,with the ship channel and all those refineries there,and so many ethnic people there where they could blend in unnoticed.

[teryang]

34. Won't happen anywhere near American energy

...infrastructure. However, energy infrastructure owned by Canadians or Europeans is fair game. I'm sure this is why Canadians got out of very profitable Sudanese oil fields. The US air force bombed a pharmaceutical plant in Sudan the day the Canadians closed on a large oil pipeline project there with Sudan, China and Malaysia. That was during the Clinton administration. Clinton was guided in this mistaken decision by the CIA. This was the "chemical weapons" factory that was actually producing medicine and pediatric products.

Guerillas, as I recall attacked Occidental facilities in Columbia a few years ago.

[BrotherBuzz]

22. Nattering nabob of negativity...

[chenGOD]

24. What's it feel like living in a police state?

[xchrom]

25. he didn't bet his own life on 9-11

i guess he's not done with the rest of us yet.
i feel sorry for right wingers -- this is their idea of leadership. what a disgrace.

[newsjunkie]

28. They love it..

..because they themselves are disgraceful people.
quote {{i feel sorry for right wingers -- this is their idea of leadership. what a disgrace.}}

[xchrom]

29. indeed

[rman]

30. Rummy, with such foreknowledge, can't you prevent it?

you seem to have so many known knowns, you must be on top of these evildoers.
Or is the seriousness of the threat measured only by the amount of chatter?

[Q]

33. The Bushie Neocons have admitted in the past...

...that 'some' of their alerts have been bogus...just to 'teach a lesson' to Democrats who questioned the need for alerts of this kind.

- No one can believe these guys...which makes the alerts useless.

- I think of their alerts as just another grab for power or to hide their criminal activities.

[2cents]

35. lol--"you bet your life"

"and if you say the secret woyd, ya win a hunnert dollars"

secret word - disinformation

[truth2power]

38. Great one, 2cents!

:thumbsup: I'm old enough to remember Groucho Marx.

[leesa]

36. I hope I live to see Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld and the rest of this

group of thugs behind bars for the rest of their lives. What a bunch of evil bastards.

[truth2power]

37. I get so sick of

all this Socratic dialog he engages in with HIMSELF!!

Question...answer....question....answer...

Geez! Shut up already, Rummy!! I'm so sick of you talking to yourself, like you're some professor or something....which, trust me, you aren't. :puke:

on edit> And please, we can dispense with the exaggerated hand gestures, too, if you don't mind. Gawd! Get a grip.

[are_we_united_yet]

39. re:'Bet Your Life' Threat to U.S. Is Serious'

Oh,

I thought he was talking about the Bush Administration.

He would have been very accurate.

[llmart]

40. Where's FDR when we need him?

Ahhh,for the good ole' days of the dynamic leadership of FDR who in direct contrast to the fearmongers who are running things now once proclaimed, "We have nothing to fear but fear itself."

I can't wait to get these idiots out of Washington so we can return to a more positive, upbeat group of people. Rightwingers love to live with all that fearmongering stuff. It makes their small lives seem "exciting".