ABCs "Rumsfeld's Rules of War"...Softball Crock-o-Shite so far..(On Now)

[masmdu]

The reporter is just agush talking with Rumsfeld about how neat the Rumsfeld Doll is, How sexy he is, How rock-star cool he is....

The reporter has him in front of him and doesn't bother asking ANY hard questions...

what a limp dick reporter

[linazelle]

1. They just skipped the entire Regan/Bush era and his Saddam connection

What a crock.

[aquart]

5. Not looking like a crock to me. But I just tuned in.

And the first thing I hear and see is an army man backing up Clarke by saying how he questioned the Saddam obsession. And then someone saying our soldiers were ill-equipped.

Now they're bringing up the PNAC letter and Rumsfeld is denying his mind was made up or that it was his decision. He says he's not someone whose ever wanted any war.

He says that everyone in Iraq is a volunteer who put up his hand and said, "Send me." Can't wait till the National Guard troops hear that.

[AG78]

7. That was odd

I was watching this from the beginning, and I knew they would never dare mention that letter. I'm amazed they brought that up.

But here's why we have problems. The people that get to a position of power are people like Rumsfeld and Al-Zawahiri. We've got those two as the power behind the scene's. That's why we're all going to die horribly.

And I never knew Rumsfeld was Cheney's boss.

[goclark]

2. Rumbum appears to be loved by Media

I have noticed that every time he has a press conference there is always good old boys tyoe laughter. Every stupid thing that he says seems to be so funny.

What's up with that? Am I missing something? He seems like a slimeball to me. Someone not to have fun with because he lies and insults peoples intelligence.

Yet, the reporters just seem to adore him.

[boobooday]

3. ABC

Corporate media whores. How nice of them to try to help with damage control.

http://www.wgoeshome.com

[readmylips]

4. Rumbutt just admitted to PBS Jim Lehrer that...

he did say that 'Iraq did have better targets'. Lehrer was quoting from Clarke's book. Rumbutt did his show and pony sounding like a lunanic and not answering direct questions from Lehrer. He finally had to admit that in that meeting according to Clarke, he stated that 'Iraq did have better targets and agreed with Wolfibutt that Iraq was a better target.'

Lehrer was tough on Rumbutt but like always, the Rumbutt giggled and made little jokes, hoping Lehrer would forget about the question. Lehrer hit him again with the question and he spilled the beans.

[Faygo Kid]

6. Portrait of a warm and fuzzy warmonger.

The chuckling grandfather. Puke. He is a warmonger, and I guess absolute hell to work for - mean and nasty. What a nice group of folks are in the Bush Administration.

[aquart]

8. This picture isn't warm and fuzzy.

They're using Republicans and military people to cream Rumsfeld.

Pointing out that Rumsfeld has violated his OWN rules of not dividing the world into "us" and "them."

[Kool Kitty]

9. I was kinda surprised at the overall tone of this show.

Not very flattering. And that's a good thing. But boy oh boy, haven't all the Bushies been out and about? You can't swing a cat without hitting one of them being interviewed or profiled or rebutting or spinning. It's sickening. And Rummy was on Newshour tonight, too. Busy man.

[underpants]

10. Two nasty critiques of Rummy on that show (one on the ABC WNT preview)

The preview on ABC WNT also featured Marine Lt.Gen Greg Newbold saying that Rummy and his staff hyped prewar intelligence and that everything he saw (raw intel.)painted Saddam as a "paper tiger" but I can't find that quote anywhere.


http://abcnews.go.com/sections/Primetime/World/donald_rumsfeld_040325-1.html

John White, who was Secretary of the Army at that time, said Rumsfeld micromanaged what the military calls deployment: determining exactly which troops would go and exactly when they would leave.

He charges Rumsfeld's interference caused troops to arrive in Iraq without equipment, and crucial support units to be weeks late in getting there. "I would argue he was not part of the cure. He was part of the problem," White said.

"We didn't have enough troops, enough boots on the ground, to stop the looting, to stop the wholesale destruction of the infrastructure of the country that we're now asking the American taxpayers to pay for," said White.