Seriously, what the hell is the matter with Rumsfeld?

[kuozzman]

This was probably posted yesterday, but I'm not very familiar with military lifestyle/their attitudes about the dangers they face, etc. and I was wondering if Rummy's responses to this soldier's question were as out of line as they seem to be?

Soldier: "Why do we soldiers have to dig through local landfills for pieces of scrap metal and compromised ballistic glass to uparmor our vehicles?" Wilson asked.

"It's essentially a matter of physics, not a matter of money," Rumsfeld said. "It's a matter of production and the capability of doing it."

What????.....Physics?????......Sure Rummy!

Rummy: "As you know, you have to go to war with the Army you have, not the Army you want,"

Rummy: "You can have all the armor in the world on a tank, and it can be blown up."

[shadowknows69]

1. Just off the top of my head....hmmmm..evil maybe?

[AllyCat]

2. Okay...so can we put the same armor on the troops' vehicles

as is on all the transport for the Halliburton gang? They have nicely outfitted stuff from some reports I heard awhile back on MSM. Would have to search for links.

[Inland]

3. He's making excuses. Everything is either impossible

(like its against physics) or futile (you'll still get killed) so there is no sense blaming him for fucking up basic planning for this war. Nothing to be done, nothing to be regretted, nobody to be blamed. And why is he going to Iraq, if that's all he has to say? Why is he drawing a salary? Because if he didn't, he wouldn't be in a position to make excuses. And because he is a death-dealing dickhead.

[fryguy]

4. i was thinking the same thing

had a Democrat, any Democrat even one not SecDef, said anything like that the amount of hell fire that would have rained down upon them from the right would have been biblical in proportion....but not a peep out of them on this....no calls for him to explain, let alone resign.....and yet they impeach someone over an extra-marital affair? what partisan pandering and hypocrasy....

[Old and In the Way]

7. The good news is, when we are finally rid of these criminals.

The remaining Republicans will have absolutely nothing in which to be outraged about. In every way, this administration has managed to set a bar that will be impossible for any future administration to reach.

[Old and In the Way]

5. It's another known unknown.

Or maybe unknown known......I get the 2 confused.

[indigobusiness]

6. It's a travesty, a sham and a mockery...

and the house of cards is wobbling.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

8. He's evil.

Cue the Church Lady: Could it be.... Satan?

[Zorra]

9. Rumsfeld is insane. He really is. A sociopathic lunatic. n/t

[OneTwentyoNine]

23. Yup,just what I've said for YEARS....

You could tell what a freak,sociopath he was when the invasion started. He really,truly loves this shit. People dieing means nothing to that fucker.

[ailsagirl]

10. I'm not sure but Rumsfeld isn't the only one afflicted

These people have no conscience. They don't care. I don't think they're even trying to hide it anymore. They're above the law, apparently. But there's one law they can't break: The Law of Cause and Effect. And, brother, when that comes down, all hell will break loose.

[morcatknits]

16. Personality Disorders All Around

They are a bunch of sociopaths, in my opinion. They want what they want, and that makes it legitimate.
morcatknits

[ailsagirl]

18. Oh Yeh-- the inmates are definitely running the asylum

[GRLMGC]

11. He's crazy!

He's a psychopath like every member of that administration!

[zeemike]

12. Arrogance, simply arrogance

he has probably always been able to bullshit his way out of anything.

[hollowdweller]

24. arrogant rich man just like Bush and Cheney

That'w why he was retained

[Shadowen]

13. Pro wrestling provides me with an excellent insult for this occasion:

"Ass-clown".

[alcuno]

14. Rummy thinks he's really clever.

Remember his quote about the unknowns and the things we know we know and the things we know we don't know? His comment today sounded painfully familiar.

He loves to do this little routine where he thinks he's showing off how clever he is. At the Pentagon briefings, they all laugh in appreciation. However, his tired little roadshow doesn't play well with the non-press corps types.

[GreatCaesarsGhost]

15. teenie weenie

[Acryliccalico]

17. Seriously there are some major mental problems at the top of our governmen

bush and his cronies:crazy:

[pen dragon]

19. Rumsfeld was co-built by Henschel and Porsche in 1945

Part of Hitler's secret weapons program, but by the time designers of the Enigma machine could finish programming his brain, the Russians had overrun Berlin. When word reached Prescott Bush he had the highly encrypted but not fully functioning Rumsfeld uber-android smuggled into the United States via an unmarked German U-Boat before he fell into communist hands.

No one has been able to stop him or decipher his source code since.

[datasuspect]

20. with extensive Nixon-era modifications

[Disturbed]

21. How stupid &/or gullible are the troops?

Do they know that they have been lied to and betrayed?

[datasuspect]

25. watched a really good series of documentaries

on discovery times yesterday.

it basically trailed a regiment from a national guard battalion in Clarkville, Arkansas from life in the states to deployment to kuwait then convoy to iraq then to life in camp in baghdad.

this was the most curious part of the whole thing: the troops were sent to a base in texas for extra training before being sent overseas. they showed some of the white soldiers (young guys) essentially framing their service and feelings about deployment in terms of patriotism, "they attacked us, so we gonna get them," and basically parroting the official line.

the next few scenes showed a group of black soldiers during their off-time at a club. they filmed them in the parking lot and they all basically understood the war was a sham: saying how an iraqi never hurt them; that the war was basically bullshit; and ended up with all them doing an a capella rendition of the song War by Edwin Starr.

i don't know why this was compelling to me, but it made some weird kind of sense to me, as it underscored the inherent racism of our genocidal policies against muslims.

[OneTwentyoNine]

22. Lets see.....Talking out of his ass???

He's like Bush,he doesn't want and can't answer direct,tough questions. He wants what Bush wants,to hang around Military installations and be fawned over. Didn't work this time around,got his ass ripped a new one.

David

[indepat]

26. There's absolutely nothing new wrong with Rummy

[wantedtohelp]

27. Same thing wrong with the nazis

total lack of empathy.

[Solly Mack]

28. He doesn't care. People are obstacles to him

[Dukkha]

29. I'm Old...It's early!

where am I sonny? uuuuuh.....I can't think!

gimme a break! This clown's got the worst poker face ever. Way to insult the troops!

[dissenting crone]

30. "I'm Old...It's early!"

Both major cop-outs.
Don't blame age, sucker;
and
go back to your cave if it's too "early".

Cop-outs

[foreigncorrespondent]

31. I watched a doco on Rummy the dummy...

...a few days ago on the ABC (Australian Broadcasting Corporation.)

They were talking about how he was in the same position he holds now during the Nixon (I think it was) administration. And the effect that had on the Vietnam war.

Basically they were saying how letting civilians control the military and organize wars etc, doesn't work.

Then they talked about the Iraq war, and how General Tommy Franks wanted the war to be different, but how Rummy basically nit picked until he got his own way.

So that, my friend, is what is wrong with the dummy. He has no experience, and he refuses to listen to those who do.

He doesn't give a shit about the guys on the ground fighting the war. He is safe at home on U.S. soil.

I have to admit though, during this doco I screamed at the telly several times, because of some of the spin that was in it, but it really was pretty interesting to see.