Rumsfeld Serves Dinner to Troops in Iraq (Vomit Alert!)

MOSUL, Iraq - In a festively bedecked dining hall, Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld served Christmas Eve dinner to dozens of U.S. soldiers, then fed them his view — with a mix of optimism, caution and emotion — of why the war that has cost more than 2,150 U.S. lives must be won.

"We will win this war. It's a test of wills, and let there be no doubt that is what it is," he said. Rumsfeld told the troops that "generations before you have persevered and prevailed, and they too were engaged in a test of wills."

"In this fight, the vast majority of Iraqis stand on the side of freedom," he said over the roar of helicopters flying over a regional U.S. military headquarters that once was a palace of Saddam Hussein.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20051224/ap_on_re_mi_ea/rumsfeld_57







U.S. Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld serves Christmas dinner to soldiers in Mosul, Iraq, on Saturday Dec. 24, 2005. Rumsfeld is in Iraq to thank the troops for their service.(AP Photo/Jim Young, Pool)

Bet he has an exit srategery, too.

:sarcasm:

Those poor guys belong home with their families.

For the love of God, Rummy you got them into this mess
why don't you get an M-16 and go out and help the mission.




http://www.newamericancentury.org/iraqclintonletter.htm

and that is your name on the bottom of the 1998 letter
asking Clinton for an Iraqi war.

btw .... that little xmas meal for our troops is from
Halliburton and the contract is for 100% of the cost plus!

Guaranteed that chicken is being billed out at $10.00 per dinner.

I think the hair net would have been a better look than the paper hat for the Rumster.

to be a part of the photo-op.

nt

I think we can get him locked up for contaminating everything. With his very presence.

perhaps this has something to do with the mess tent attack in Mosul last year?

...soldiers are required to bring their rifles to dinner.

would you leave your gun in your tent, or would you bring it with you?

for you soldier? Don's trying out his new work line.

She read a statement from him when he was appointed by Ford as Sec. of Def. and he was saying about the Russians pretty much what he had said about Saddam with regard to WMD and the like. He got it wrong then as he got it wrong with Saddam. The man is pure evil.