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Imagevision Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-21-06 02:31 AM
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Should Rumsfeld step down?
Edited on Tue Mar-21-06 02:34 AM by Imagevision
http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/03/19/rumsfeld.nazis/index.html
Rumsfeld's Iraq-Germany analogy disputed, ("Turning our backs on postwar Iraq today would be the modern equivalent of handing postwar Germany back to the Nazis,")

Henry Kissinger said the situations are not analogous; "In Germany, the opposition was completely crushed; there was no significant resistance movement," the German-born diplomat told CNN's "Late Edition."

Zbigniew Brzezinski was less charitable, "That is really absolutely crazy to anyone who knows history," he said. "There was no alternative to our presence. The Germans were totally crushed. For Secretary Rumsfeld to be talking this way suggests either he doesn't know history or he's simply demagoguing."


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TreasonousBastard Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-21-06 02:36 AM
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1. Shoulda stepped down long ago, but he won't. n/t
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Peter Frank Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-21-06 03:13 AM
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2. Wrong! Rumsfeld Tried to Resign Twice - but Bush Refused to Accept...
Post Abu Ghraib:

<snip>“I submitted my resignation to President Bush twice during that period and told him that ... I felt that he ought to make the decision as to whether or not I stayed on,” Rumsfeld told Larry King in an interview airing later Thursday on CNN. “And he made that decision and said he did want me to stay on.”

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6909202


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TreasonousBastard Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-21-06 03:17 AM
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3. Yeah, I remember that, but...
I never took it all that seriously. Seemed like it was more to quiet the criticism at the time.

Tough to tell if it was all for show or he really was ready to take a hike.

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Peter Frank Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-21-06 05:03 AM
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4. Believe it...

This convicts the Bush admin of supporting incompetence.


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BikeWriter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-21-06 05:32 AM
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5. He doesn't have a clue how to run a war...
...and deliberately ignored the advice of our top generals.
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Swamp Rat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-21-06 05:36 AM
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6. He doesn't have a clue how to hunt either.
:D

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