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January 6, 2009

Heckuva Job, Rummie!

President Bush today:

I thank members of the cabinet, members of the administration, and former members of the cabinet, especially the former secretary of defense, who did an outstanding job, Secretary Don Rumsfeld.

Yeah, he was pretty great, wasn't he? For instance:

"Reports that say that something hasn't happened are always interesting to me, because as we know, there are known knowns; there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns -- the ones we don't know we don't know."

And...

"As you know, you go to war with the army you have, not the army you might want or wish to have at a later time."

And...

"Freedom's untidy, and free people are free to make mistakes and commit crimes and do bad things. Stuff happens"

Outstanding job! Heckuva, in fact.


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Posted By Bob Cesca | January 6, 2009 5:45 PM

Comments

PTSD Moment in five, four, three, two,.....

Posted by: GItheJOE at January 6, 2009 6:06 PM

Mother fucker(Rummie) knew we(military) would encounter and large IED threat and had contracts for IED resistant vehicles in waiting. But, the contract for GM"s useless cloth door Hummer was to precious to let go of. Motherfuck!!!

How about body armor that doesn't stop 7.62MM(only round fired at soldiers from Iraqis) bullets only 9mm pistol rounds. FUCK!!

I was standing really close to the soldier that got kicked out when he asked Rummie for some armored vehicles and body armor.


FUCK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Posted by: GItheJOE at January 6, 2009 6:12 PM

GI:

One Joint Strike Fighter: $250,000,000

One MRAP vehicle: $250,000

Pretending you give a shit about troops: Priceless!

Posted by: Matt Osborne at January 6, 2009 7:39 PM

If I knew all my knowns and unknowns, I wouldn't know what to do with them

Posted by: Political Party Pooper [TypeKey Profile Page] at January 6, 2009 8:58 PM

Something is wrong. It says 4 on my comments but only 3 appear.

Posted by: GItheJOE at January 6, 2009 9:38 PM

The only time I will ever defend Rummie is with his knowns/unknowns speech. That is a philosophical tenet as old as time--the notion that there are things we don't know we don't know. In fact, in theoretical physics there is a state of existence for things that are, things that are not and things that not are; i.e. things that not only don't exist, they are inconceivable. Sure, it's a bit of rhetoric for college classroom discussion, but it's nothing new.

There are plenty of reasons to hate the man, but making fun of him for admitting there are things they don't even know they don't know is leaps and bounds over the rest of the administration which never admitted a single flaw and blamed intelligence for their mistakes. I'm just sayin' is all.

Posted by: camel54 at January 6, 2009 9:49 PM

Camel, Rumfeld is the classic case of a well-read moron. He was trying to channel S.L.A. Marshall when he said "you go to war with the Army you have." The actual Marshall quote is from Men Against Fire: "War must always star with imperfect instruments. Equally, these instruments can never be fully perfected in the course of war."

Nevertheless, Marshall would have been appalled by the delay in delivering MRAP vehicles to Iraq: during WWII, the United States succeeded in taking entire weapons systems from chalkboard to deployment in a matter of months. In his writing Marshall examined countless cases of GI ingenuity turned to Army policy in near real-time despite the fact they were using carbon paper instead of email.

Posted by: Matt Osborne at January 6, 2009 10:32 PM

I am soooooooooo sick of this illegitimate President's overuse of the misty eyed lip quiver that runs counter to every decision he's made to lie our troops into harms way--

Posted by: JG at January 6, 2009 11:24 PM