Rummy has an op ed in today's NY Times

[CatWoman]

funny, now every time I see his name all I can think of is his bumbling and stumbling during last week's Face the Nation Interview.

It's titled: "The Price of Freedom"

:puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/03/19/opinion/19RUMS.html?hp

[BlueEyedSon]

1. Yeah, it's right opposite THIS

One Year After

Published: March 19, 2004

One year ago, President Bush began the war in Iraq. Most Americans expected military victory to come quickly, as it did. Despite the administration's optimism about what would follow, it was also easy to predict that the period after the fall of Baghdad would be very messy and very dangerous. In that sense, right now we're exactly where we expected to be.

It's nonetheless important to remember that none of this might have happened if we had known then what we know now. No matter what the president believed about the long-term threat posed by Saddam Hussein, he would have had a much harder time selling this war of choice to the American people if they had known that the Iraqi dictator had been reduced to a toothless tiger by the first Persian Gulf war and by United Nations weapons inspectors. Iraq's weapons programs had been shut down, Mr. Hussein had no threatening weapons stockpiled, the administration was exaggerating evidence about them, and there was, and is, no evidence that Mr. Hussein was involved in the 9/11 attacks.

Right now, our highest priority is making the best of a very disturbing situation. Even our European allies who opposed the war want to see Iraq stabilized and turned over to its citizens — even if they don't necessarily see Washington as the force to do that. The other possibility, an Iraq flung into chaos and civil war, open to manipulation by every unscrupulous political figure and terrorist group in the Middle East, is too awful to contemplate.

Read the wole thing, it's long but good. http://www.nytimes.com/2004/03/19/opinion/19FRI1.html?ex=1080277200&en=30b11ad93d2fec33&ei=5062&partner=GOOGLE

[bryant69]

2. Hmmmm.

Intersting stuff. But pretty transperent. He includes the standard "We saved your butts in WW2 (or in this case the Korean War), so you owe us!" He repaints the case against Saddam Hussein; but with nobody to ask him about his past statements, it's pretty vanilla. Is there anybody in the world who doesn't know that Saddam was a bad person?

Bryant
Check it out --> http://politicalcomment.blogspot.com

[spanone]

3. It's utter hogwash by a man who believes that war is THE answer.

I'll be glad to see Mr. Rumsfeld and his ego gone.

[Catfight]

4. Dumbsfield drivel

I couldn't even read it, I knew the instance I saw it on the NYTimes is was propaganda....I agree :puke:

[jpgray]

5. 'The light of freedom' says it all, I think

Blech.

[diamond14]

6. seems rummy has no qualms about asking a man to be the last man

to DIE FOR his LIES !

The whole premise of rummy's editorial is to SLAM JOHN KERRY for his famous words. Look at the comparison. bush* told rummy NOT
to be engaged in the pResident's re-selection campaign.

This rummy pandering is truly shameful.



Rummy:
"As it happened, I had that day visited a Korean War memorial, which bears the names of every American soldier killed in the war. On it was the name of a close friend of mine from high school, a wrestling teammate, who was killed on the last day of the war.




In April 1971, testifying before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, John Kerry asked the question of his fellow citizens, "How do you ask a man to be the last man to die for a mistake?"

[diamond14]

8. alerted Kerry's campaign headquarters.....

with a major VOLUNTEER effort....they are very good at paying attention to these slams and responding....

all DUers could help in this area too....alerting John Kerry's campaign headquarters of dirty tricks from reTHUGlicans....you can call/email/write and make a difference....help us take back the White House and SAVE AMERICA.....


GO Kerry....BOOT BUSH back to his pig farm....
http://www.JohnKerry.com

[Postman]

7. doesn't he really mean "The Price of Imperialist-Capitalism"

all the rest of the "freedom" talk is jusy smoke screen BS.

on edit:

he confuses (deliberately) the invasion and occupation of Iraq (which had nothing to do with "terrorism" or 9/11)with a legitmate war on terrorism against Al-Qaeda.

Strange how US foreign policy creates all these "madmen" to do the dirty work of corporate capitalists only to point the finger at them later to justify invasions of countries they rule to bring "democracy" to the people.

Sounds like a jobs program for military contractors and citizens who join the military out of economic necessity.