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Disturbed Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-24-05 08:58 PM
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Rumsfailed murdered American troops.
If only the grunts knew. Maybe someone that is familiar with the U.S.
Military could write a piece about this and send it to The Stars and Stripes?
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Disturbed Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-24-05 08:59 PM
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1. Don't tell me it wasn't about the freakin oil!


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marmar Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-24-05 09:07 PM
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2. Of course it was...
Everything the U.S. does in the Middle East is connected to our oil addiction. The "war on terror" is a huge sham - BushCo could give less than a damn about terrorism.
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ObaMania Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-24-05 09:13 PM
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3. How'd he murder troops? n/t
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Disturbed Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-24-05 09:21 PM
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5. Arrogance and criminal neglect.
Karpinski said that General Shinseki briefed Rumsfeld that "he can't win this war, if they insist on invading Iraq, he can't win this war with less than 300,000 soldiers." Rumsfeld reportedly ordered Shinseki to go back and find a way to do this with 125,000 to 130,000, but Shinseki came back and said they couldn't do the job with that number. "What did Rumsfeld do?" Karpinski asked rhetorically. "If you can't agree with me, I'm going to find somebody who can. He made Shinseki a lame duck, for all practical purposes, and brought in Schoomaker. And Schoomaker got it. He said, 'Oh yes sir, we can do this with 125,000.'"
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SouthernDem2004 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-24-05 09:25 PM
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6. But that is not murder. /nt
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wli Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-24-05 09:20 PM
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4. URL? Where's this coming from? n/t
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Disturbed Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-24-05 09:28 PM
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7. I call it murder. Maybe not in a legal sense.
Edited on Wed Aug-24-05 09:30 PM by Disturbed
Karpinski- now on LBN.

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