Gen. Batiste: Rumsfeld ‘Served Up Our Great Military A Huge Bowl of...

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Gen. Batiste: Rumsfeld ‘Served Up Our Great Military A Huge Bowl of Chicken Feces’

Today on MSNBC, retired General John Batiste — former commander of the First Infantry division in Iraq — said that it was “outrageous” Rumsfeld was still in charge of the Pentagon. Batiste added, “He served up our great military a huge bowl of chicken feces, and ever since then, our military and our country have been trying to turn this bowl into chicken salad.” Watch it:

Rummy's PowerPoint:



http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=132&topic_id=2774497&mesg_id=2774497

[yellerpup]

1. Rumsfeld's foul soup is made of lies

and carries a bitter aftertaste. Stop the War NOW!

[Benhurst]

2. Recommended: #3

[K8-EEE]

3. OMG How Insane And STUPID Is That Power Point!

That should end up in the history books to illustrate the BushCo Cult's SCREAMINGLY IDIOTIC fantasy world....

[Cobalt-60]

11. that's not a joke?!

[threadkillaz]

4. These people got along before no?

The border lines should increase instead of narrow.

And I love the gray zone entitled "Fewer Incidents of Violence"

[LittleClarkie]

5. I wish there was a way to get him out of there

Kerry was trying with his petition and such, as he seems to really have a bug up his butt like the general here that Rummy is even still there, but that effort didn't go very far.

[ProSense]

6. Remember the "we'll stand down as they stand up" strategy?

(August 25, 2006 -- 11:28 PM EDT)

Remember the "we'll stand down as they stand up" strategy? It needs some work:

Iraqis looted a military base vacated by British troops and stripped it of virtually everything removable on Friday, an indication of possible future trouble for U.S.-led coalition forces hoping to hand over security gradually to the Iraqi government.

Men, some with their faces covered, ripped corrugated metal from roofs, carried off metal pipes and backed trucks into building entrances to load them with wooden planks. Many also took away doors and window frames from Camp Abu Naji.

"The British forces left Abu Naji and the locals started looting everything," 1st Lt. Rifaat Taha Yaseen of the Iraqi Army's 10th Division told Associated Press Television News. "They took everything from the buildings."

The plundering was likely to embarrass the government of Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, who has said that Iraqi army and police plan to take over security for all of Iraq's provinces within the next 18 months.

Maybe the most troubling part of this incident is that the base in question is located in southern Iraq, which used to be considered relatively stable. Relatively.

http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/009543.php

[Berry Cool]

7. I loved that quote!

I laughed out loud when I heard it yesterday.

Too bad the reality behind it is not so funny.

[ooglymoogly]

8. that sentance would read sooo much better as a bowl

of chickenshit rather than the dance around chicken feces.

[jayctravis]

9. OMG...that is the funniest PHB diagram I've ever seen...

Their goal is to *squeeze* the three divisions together, and you see it there on the timeline as the "cone" narrows, passing through "fewer incidences of violence" midway through the timeline. Somebody got paid a whole lot of money to make that.

It seriously looks like something the Daily Show made up.

So it's over when the Venn diagram converges?

[peekaloo]

10. chicken hawk, chicken shit, chicken salad

a natural progression for the Rumster.

[yellowcanine]

12. Only a retired general could say "chicken feces" with a straight face.

You know he thinks that Rummy himself is chicken shit.