Rumsfeld warns against early Iraq troop pull-out

[sabra]

http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/N03235454.htm

Rumsfeld warns against early Iraq troop pull-out

WASHINGTON, Aug 3 (Reuters) - Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld warned on Thursday against pulling U.S. troops out of Iraq prematurely, saying it would be seen as a victory by extremists who want to control a region extending beyond the Middle East.

"If we left Iraq prematurely as the terrorists demand, the enemy would tell us to leave Afghanistan and then withdraw from the Middle East," he told the Senate Armed Services Committee at a hearing.

"And if we left the Middle East, they'd order us and all those who don't share their militant ideology to leave what they call the occupied Muslim lands from Spain to the Philippines," he said.

"And then we would face not only the evil ideology of these extremists, but an enemy that will have grown accustomed to succeeding in telling free people everywhere what to do."

[rfranklin]

1. Like falling dominoes, says Rummy....

Where have I heard that one before?

[radfringe]

9. Dominos??? mmmmmm-extra cheese on mine

http://radfringe.tripod.com/radicalfringecartoons /

click on 4th toon down....

[MrCoffee]

10. You beat me to it

I couldn't stop myself from hearing Uncle Henry's voice as I read that story. Now I'm gonna be all creeped out for the rest of the day.

[sinkingfeeling]

2. Same logic as his famous..."there are knowns and unknowns".

[Why Syzygy]

3. He is disgusting.

I'm so glad I don't live in their bizarro reality.

[napi21]

4. NO! It would look like the failure of Rumsfield's Plan!

All this BS taht he is spewing is just defending HIS failed "fight on the cheap" plan!

Also, If you watched even a bit of that hearing, you could see just how much he didn't want to be there!!!!

[rodeodance]

6. BINGO!

[BOSSHOG]

5. The war will take a couple of months at the most

We will be greeted as liberators. Iraq will pick up the tab.

3 and half years later, "If we left Iraq prematurely."

"Conservative" leadership personified.

[grytpype]

7. "We have to stay so the extremists don't think they won."

That's the mission now.

He's letting what extremists think determine our policy.

[Minstrel Boy]

8. It's a shame his father didn't pull out early, too

But seriously: early? Even bandwagon warmongers who didn't grok the neocons plans would have thought 3+ years later could not be called early.

[ckramer]

11. Sure Rummy, if you don't care about that two soldiers died per day

I know you don't give a *****.

[E-Z-B]

12. Pull out "prematurely"?! It's been 3 years!!!

[uppityperson]

13. "blah blah blah blah"

SOS (same old stuff)
MOS (more of same)

[Miss Chybil]

14. Yes, and you have such a proven track record of sane, ethical

and successful ideas we will continue to listen to you, Rummyboy.

[ConcernedCanuk]

15. "telling free people everywhere what to do" - did I miss something ????

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Y'all feel real "free" down there?

hmmmmm

[xchrom]

16. rumsferatu -- all those delicious dead bodies for him to feed on.

nope -- don't want to pull out of iraq too early.

[samsingh]

17. he should warn about himself.