Rummy's gone mad: "How Would Terrorists Explain Failures to al Qaeda?"

[sabra]

http://www.defenselink.mil/news/Sep2005/20050930_2897.html

WASHINGTON, Sept. 30, 2005 – Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld pointed to this week's open congressional hearings involving the two top generals in Iraq as an opportunity for the world to watch democracy in action. Had the tides been turned, he said, terrorists would have had some "awkward" explanations to make.

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The secretary hailed the open forum as an opportunity to demonstrate the democratic process, but wondered aloud how the hearings might have gone if it had been al Qaeda leaders questioning the terrorists in Afghanistan and Iraq.

"If they were called to account for the state of their strategy, consider what might have been asked of them," Rumsfeld said. He proposed several lines of questioning, including:


- Why did they fail to stop millions of Afghans and Iraqis from voting in free elections?

- Why had Iraqi Sunnis, natural allies of the insurgents, decided, "albeit belatedly, to energetically embrace the political process, registering (to vote) in large numbers?"

- Why had the terrorists failed to prevent nearly 200,000 Iraqis and 75,000 Afghans from joining their countries' security forces despite efforts to prevent them from doing so?

- And why had the vast majority of Afghans and Iraqis "rejected the terrorists' twisted ideology" to support efforts to build new societies?

Rumsfeld acknowledged that line of questioning "could be awkward," because "by every one of those measurements, the enemy is losing."

[lcordero2]

1. he is living in a fantasy world

[sabra]

2. considering Bush won't let him quit, seems like he doesn't give a shit....

[Qibing Zero]

3. So they can relate to the terrorists but not the underprivileged?

Wait, this is a 'duh' situation, isn't it?

[KurtNYC]

4. Trying to spin Iraq into a "success" story

producing some pretty twisted logic it seems.

[BlueJac]

5. If all the administration had to pack rifles and walk the streets in Iraq.

We wouldn't be there.

[Rex]

6. Answers for idiot Rummy the Dummy

Take notes you lurking Freeptards!

- Why did they fail to stop millions of Afghans and Iraqis from voting in free elections?

A -They knew that the election process would be slightly less rigged than American elections...so why bother?


- Why had Iraqi Sunnis, natural allies of the insurgents, decided, "albeit belatedly, to energetically embrace the political process, registering (to vote) in large numbers?"

A -Because Sunnis and insurgents are the same thing.

- Why had the terrorists failed to prevent nearly 200,000 Iraqis and 75,000 Afghans from joining their countries' security forces despite efforts to prevent them from doing so?

A -A report just came out from an American general that states the Iraqis are losing ground on being able to 'police themselves'...so once again why bother?

- And why had the vast majority of Afghans and Iraqis "rejected the terrorists' twisted ideology" to support efforts to build new societies?

A -This is a total bullshit question, so it doesn't require a real answer. Iraqis and Afghanis AND insurgents AND the terrorists are one and the same people, so live with it Rummy you fucking idiot! You caused it!

[cornermouse]

7. Rummy thinks he's amusing.

He's wrong. He stopped being amusing when people started dying.

[neweurope]

8. It's insulting. But we just think they're dumb, swallowing the insult.

"an opportunity for the world to watch democracy in action"

Why, please tell me: WHY does your - in it's own words: great - nation always compare itself to the underprivileged nations of the wold? Why does it NEVER compare itself to France, Germany, Canada, Belgium, The Netherlands... it's along list, actually...?

Of course I understand that Rumsfeld & Co. don't mean US, the Western world. They don't even mean Sudan and Iraq. They only mean US-Americans. All of this is purely meant for the US population. Because they DO trumpet it all over the world though it's insulting. It insults our intelligence.


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Remember Fallujah

Bush to The Hague!

[ComerPerro]

9. But, please, don't ask Rummy any tough questions like that

it would just make for an akward situation.

[jimshoes]

10. Well Don,

1. The elections mean just about squat in either place if noone obeys the law. If I recall, most folks didn't even know who they voted for.
2. Just their way of saying "fuck you", deal with us.
3. Stand in line ...get free weaponry, leave. They seem to have one ready batallion. What's that 1200 men?
4. They decided on Sharia law. That isn't exactly western style democracy.
If we left there tomorrow, would they still remember you? (Apologies to Ronnie Van Zant)