Rummy is has gone off the deep end - completely >

[liberal N proud]

Rumsfeld: Al Qaeda has better PR
Says U.S. government still functions as 'five and dime' store
Friday, February 17, 2006; Posted: 4:05 p.m. EST (21:05 GMT)

NEW YORK (Reuters) -- The United States lags dangerously behind al Qaeda and other enemies in getting out information in the digital media age and must update its old-fashioned methods, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said Friday.

Modernization is crucial to winning the hearts and minds of Muslims worldwide who are bombarded with negative images of the West, Rumsfeld told the Council on Foreign Relations.

The Pentagon chief said today's weapons of war included e-mail, Blackberries, instant messaging, digital cameras and Web logs, or blogs.

"Our enemies have skillfully adapted to fighting wars in today's media age, but ... our country has not adapted," Rumsfeld said.

"For the most part, the U.S. government still functions as a 'five and dime' store in an eBay world," Rumsfeld said, referring to old-fashioned U.S. retail stores and the online auction house respectively.

http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/02/17/security.rumsfeld.reut/index.html

[melody]

1. Their way of making all anti-Bush media references to be "terrorism"

Must be great to be king, hm?

[MGKrebs]

2. Better get these guys on the payroll Rummy:

[NanceGreggs]

3. Rumsfeld talking about 'modernization' ...

... the man who doesn't know how to use e-mail!

Note to Rummy:

Here's a sure-fire plan: Stop killing and torturing the people whose hearts and minds you're hoping to win!

So crazy, it just might work ...

[laheina]

14. I wish these idiots would realize

that good governance and upright actions are completely different from PR. The previous two things speak for themselves, and without them, all of this administrations actions are doomed to failure.

[flobee1]

4. Rummys been all about the net

this past week.....
wtf do they have up their sleeve


Are they going to do another power grab involving the internet?

[Klukie]

7. my thoughts exactly!

or mabye another one of their illegal NSA programs is about to be leaked and he is trying to get out ahead of it.

[WhiteTara]

10. I sure think so

welcome to DU flobee1 :hi:

[rodeodance]

5. i Clark had a good retort--IT is what we DO--our policies that make

them dislike us---not this propadanda.

someone on du posted that he was on Fox earlier.

[wtmusic]

6. Of course-it's all just a matter of putting murder in the right "package"

:silly:

[randr]

8. Bush should start delivering his tirades from a cave

just like OBL. That will bring the rest of the world to our side for sure.
Marshall McLuhan take a bow, the media is at last the only message.

[sasha031]

9. he could be on to something

we are expecting party cloudy and rainy
conditions, tueday and thursday



last evening a bride ran away from her husband
in the city of Kashmire



Dow jumped 20 points, Nasdaq 3, and oil is now $60 a barrel

[rucky]

11. Second threat to the bloggers in a week.

Look out, folks, looks like we'll be made an example of.

[punpirate]

12. The army alone spends...

... over $600 million a year on advertising. The government has its own broadcasting and satellite network in the Middle East. We're paying tens of millions of dollars to firms to write copy for insertion into dozens of Iraqi papers alone (and that's just what the Army is doing--no telling how much is going through wholly secret channels).

Not one of the technologies he mentions is not in heavy use by the military already. What he wants is more money to propagandize and more freedom to do it without oversight.

[laheina]

15. Bingo!!

The military is on the cutting edge of communications technology. They are trying to create a *need*, so that the American people will allow them to throw even more money at the military budget.

[hunter]

13. Next Rumsfeld Project: Making the Internet Safe for America.

Sit on it, Rumsfeld!



brown tree snake emerging from a toilet

[Zinfandel]

16. CONDI WANTS ADDITIONAL $75 MILLION TOWARDS IRANIAN FREEDOM

Rummy's trying to push Rice's bullshit bill, that Rummy himself probably came up with!!!

"The official, who asked not to be named, said 50 million dollars of the added money would go to expanded radio and television broadcasts into Iran to ensure around-the-clock coverage.

“The United States will actively confront the aggressive policies of the Iranian regime,” she said. “At the same time, we will work to support the aspirations of the Iranian people for freedom and democracy in their country.”

A State Department official said the 75 million dollars would be requested as supplemental funding for the 2006 fiscal year, on top of the 60 million dollars already appropriated."

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