rumsfeld seems like a pissy old man while answering his own questions...

[bridgit]

posed by Hillary, she's not letting him go easy though & that is good to see for a change

[Skidmore]

1. He is an insane pissy old man, who should be convicted

of war crimes and locked up for a long, long time.

[bridgit]

4. that's not possible to disagree with...

and all his nefarious, ill gotten war profits retained

[Warpy]

15. He's a pissy old man who is just starting to grasp the faintest

idea that he's been WRONG all these years, that the lesson of Vietnam wasn't reshaping the military away from massive land forces dedicated to capturing large areas of territory into a small force capable of striking and killing a lot of people and then leaving, but that the true lesson of Vietnam is that it was simply UNWINNABLE because we should never have been there in the first place.

That lesson is being taught to him by the people of Iraq.

Personally, I think the cost of teaching one pissy old man such a hard lesson is far too high. Saner people at the Pentagon, if there are any sane people at the Pentagon, should have spotted him early enough in his career to keep him completely out of power.

Perhaps that's the lesson Iraq is meant to teach the generation fighting there. I sincerely hope they learn it a lot better than the rich and powerful of my own generation learned the lesson of Vietnam.

[bridgit]

17. for all the loss of blood & treasure the pentagon could have sent...

three cruise missiles a day into & onto some target saddam held dear every freaking day from then till now and beyond, they knew right where he was and that he was going nowhere but they send in rumsfeld and the ham handed tommy franks (another midland tx guy) along with the pathological sanction of bush himself & the bfee, and it all goes to shit

they have learned no lessons, and america herself pays the price once again

[AndyA]

2. I loved Hillary's comment about Rumsfeld's previous testimony

being "unfulfilled." Nice way of calling the old SOB a liar.

Rummy responded he'd been very "measured" in his words. Hillary requested that the record be kept open, and that Rummy's former remarks be added to it.

Point: Hillary.

[bridgit]

6. i thought that was classy, she clearly 'seen him coming', his shit-talk...

is all over DC, and easily brought up front would be my guess, it is well past time to make this gang answer for their own mistakes in their own words

[sistersofmercy]

3. That's because he is. n/t

[JHH]

5. I hope Hillary has the quotes to nail him with

Rummy said "when did I ever mislead this congress"

[bridgit]

7. heard that..."when", how bout everytime his lips are moving...

[Skidmore]

9. She had a list that she requested be made part of the permanent

record.

[Cleita]

10. My god! He had the balls to say that with a straight face? n/t

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

8. Hilary dropped a bomb...

I don't think Rumsfelds going to recover from it either.

[bridgit]

11. poor rumsfeld...

he'll maybe have to stop his double-speak gibberish and eat his own crow sometime soon

[jobycom]

19. Has he made mistakes? Of course. Were the deliberate?

He'd say no. Could he have been less defensive? He doesn't know, you tell him.

Freakin' blathering maniac makes me want to slap him silly, and that's in addition to the horrible atrocities and war crimes he's committed.

[bridgit]

24. dude that's exactly the way he 'talks'...

but then it's all like

[jobycom]

28. I know, he drives me insane! I figured he had stopped that, but I heard

him again the other day, doing the same routine.

He's just not a smart or competent person. Otherwise he'd just answer questions directed at him. His little question-answer is his way of cutting off further questions, and reframing questions he doesn't like so that he can answer them better. A sign of a dishonest, insecure manipulator.

[bridgit]

32. it's the mark of a bullshitter, they just keep talking shit till the...

room empties out, or people give up...and that's when they write their own ticket

[VP505]

13. It was like

she slapped him, priceless look on his face, he sure didn't expect that, LOL

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

16. Yeah, he went straight into patronizing white old man mode...

"My goodness!"

[Arkansas Granny]

12. It seems like everyone in the Bush administration that I've seen

in the past few weeks is sounding like a pissy old man. Their demeanor has changed and they all look worried. Bush, Rice, Rumsfeld, all of them, are definitely showing signs of strain that haven't been apparent before. I am afraid that they have something in the works and that something big is getting ready to happen.

[bridgit]

14. i think that's right, i think all this talk about an asymmetrical war...

is one thing and we clearly have to aware of whomever is trying to kill us,

but they have fought the whole thing 'on the cheap' AND symmetrically and it has all failed; it is a hellish nightmare and no longer acceptable to simply spout back "war is hell get used to it"

[spanone]

18. Required disposition for war criminals.

History will not be kind to this old fuck.

[bridgit]

22. interestingly, he mentioned there was no historical precedent for his...

'singular & unique war action', history is replete with winners & losers, my sense is that these are willing to tip the entire game board over and declare their loss of diplomatic & war plan savvy a victory before having to admit they were ever wrong

[The Backlash Cometh]

20. How did someone who is so whiney get so much power?

[jobycom]

21. He whined to someone who likes whiners

Bush has no self-confidence, despite the fake swagger. He prefers whiners who will suck up to him (no, no dirty joke required) rather than confident, honest people who might challenge Bush and tell him how stupid he is.

[dogday]

23. Seems Like? He is a pissy old man

who is responsible for the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people....

[bridgit]

25. well...you know me, the very image of decorum & diplomacy...

[Canuckistanian]

26. Should we have another "Talk like Rummy" thread? You Betcha!

He's definitely a few fries short of a Happy Meal.

[bridgit]

27. "is it a timely consideration to consider? of course it is."

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

29. Hey, you kids, get off my lawn!

Do I want kids on my lawn? My goodness.

[bridgit]

30. pft...

[cracksquirrel]

31. *Jon Stewart voice*:

I'm old! I'm Donald Rumsfeld, all your questions are confusing me!

[bridgit]

33. you got it...