Rumsfeld: We're right, you're wrong, blame the media

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Rumsfeld: We're right, you're wrong, blame the media

Postby lukpac » Tue Aug 29, 2006 3:10 pm

http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/08/29/ ... index.html

Rumsfeld: Bush foes lack courage on terror

POSTED: 2:00 p.m. EDT, August 29, 2006

SALT LAKE CITY, Utah (AP) -- Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld on Tuesday accused critics of the Bush administration's Iraq and counterterrorism policies of lacking the courage to fight terror.

In unusually explicit terms, Rumsfeld portrayed the administration's critics as suffering from "moral and intellectual confusion" about what threatens the nation's security.

Addressing several thousand veterans at the American Legion's national convention, Rumsfeld recited what he called the lessons of history, including the failed efforts to appease the Adolf Hitler regime in the 1930s.

"I recount this history because once again we face the same kind of challenges in efforts to confront the rising threat of a new type of fascism" he said.

Rumsfeld spoke to an American Legion convention as part of a coordinated White House strategy, in advance of the fifth anniversary of the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on U.S. soil, aiming to take the offensive against administration critics at a time of doubt about the future of Iraq and how long U.S. troops must remain there.

Rumsfeld recalled a string of recent terrorist attacks, from the 9/11 attacks to bombings in Bali, London and Madrid, and said it should be obvious to anyone that terrorists must be confronted, not appeased.

"But it is apparent that many have still not learned history's lessons," he said, adding that part of the problem is that the American news media have tended to emphasize the negative rather than the positive.

He said, for example, that more media attention was given to U.S. soldiers' abuse of Iraqi prisoners at Abu Ghraib than to the fact that Sgt. 1st Class Paul Ray Smith received the Medal of Honor.

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Postby MK » Tue Aug 29, 2006 3:22 pm

Maybe they should spend more time FIXING the problem instead of dodging responsibility for fucking things up.
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Re: Rumsfeld: We're right, you're wrong, blame the media

Postby Jeff » Tue Aug 29, 2006 3:30 pm

lukpac wrote:"I recount this history because once again we face the same kind of challenges in efforts to confront the rising threat of a new type of fascism" he said.


Oh, the irony.

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Postby Rspaight » Wed Aug 30, 2006 7:19 am

Yeah, handing over Iraq to Iran was a GREAT way to combat Islamofascicommunhitlerevil, guys. Kudos.

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Re: Rumsfeld: We're right, you're wrong, blame the media

Postby Patrick M » Wed Aug 30, 2006 10:35 pm

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Postby Rspaight » Thu Aug 31, 2006 9:55 am

That was great.

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Postby krabapple » Thu Aug 31, 2006 1:50 pm

You think that because you are terrorist loving, America hating commie.
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Postby Rspaight » Thu Aug 31, 2006 2:15 pm

Mmmmmm, French fries.

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