Rumsfeld is my hero too...

[DinoDoc]

Originally posted by paiktis22
(although he also doesn't like the French)

They're hard to like. Thier arrogance astounds.

[Felch]

Oh dear, the Greeks and Russians don't like America.

Has there ever been a time when they did like us? It's not like that's Rumsfeld's fault.

[Spiffor]

Originally posted by DinoDoc
They're hard to like. Thier arrogance astounds.

You are right, the Americans are hard to like. Their arrogance astounds

[Odin]

Originally posted by Spiffor
You are right, the Amercans are hard to like. Their arrogance astounds

Personally, I think Cheney, Rummy, and Wolfowitz are the real power behind the thrown, Bush is just thier puppet. Hmmmmm....... reminds me of Tom Clancey's novel Divide and Conquer.

[Imran Siddiqui]

Personally, I think Cheney, Rummy, and Wolfowitz are the real power behind the thrown, Bush is just thier puppet.

Ah yes, the left's rallying cry . Of course anyone that actually has been around the White House could tell you how wrong that perception is.

[Ned]

Originally posted by Sava
Actually the type of arrogance and ignorance Rumsfeld shows is part of why people don't like American policy. "Anti-Americanism" as it's called is such a misnomer. It's actually "Anti-stupid-imperialistic-American-policy". And that isn't a problem. The problem would be if nobody cared about how the US is making a bad situation worse.

And if you want to talk about giving Iraq weapons, look at your hero, Ronny Reagan.

Maybe. I suppose if we acted like humble church mice, the people of France and Germany would like us better. However, what I think that riles these people is our self confidence, our belief in the fundamental goodness of America and the correctness of our foreign policy.

[Sava]

Originally posted by Ned


Maybe. I suppose if we acted like humble church mice, the people of France and Germany would like us better. However, what I think that riles these people is our self confidence, our belief in the fundamental goodness of America and the correctness of our foreign policy.

You're exactly right Ned. Not being arrogant, treating the world with respect, and not starting silly wars would definitely make people like America better.

[Odin]

Originally posted by Imran Siddiqui
Ah yes, the left's rallying cry . Of course anyone that actually has been around the White House could tell you how wrong that perception is.

I wouldn't know, I've never been to the White House, I just read that Clancy book and it made me wonder. It seams that Bush is constantly pulled back and forth between those 3 neo-con wackos and Powell. I wan't making up any conspiracy theories.

Neo-conservatives.

[Sava]

The Cabinet is like a bunch of little kids fighting for control of the Radio-Controlled-President.

[Imran Siddiqui]

I wan't making up any conspiracy theories.

Uh huh... sure. Just perpetuating one.

[Drake Tungsten]

The Washington Post has jumped on the Rumsfeld bandwagon. Why don't you join the club?

Rumsfeld Stands Tall After Iraq Victory

As U.S. forces wind down the war in Iraq, Donald H. Rumsfeld stands astride the military establishment as few defense secretaries ever have.

After two years in office, he has his own people in top slots across most of the military establishment. He has triumphed in a military success in Iraq that featured an audacious war plan he helped to shape. He also looms large outside the Pentagon, injecting himself far more into intelligence matters than his predecessors and playing an unusually large role in shaping Bush administration foreign policy. He even has turned around a sour relationship with Congress.

He now is in position as never before to reshape the U.S. military along the lines he has talked about since taking office, "transforming" it into a more agile and precise force built not around firepower but around information, and willing to take risks to succeed.

Most notably, he is pushing the Special Operations Command from the sideshow niche it long has occupied to center stage in the "global war on terrorism" and other U.S. military operations. After the Iraq war, which featured one of the biggest missions ever for Special Operations forces, that command "is going to be the flavor of the month," said one defense official.

Rumsfeld still faces major challenges, most notably with respect to the Army, with which his office has had badly strained relations for more than a year. While the central role played by that service in the Iraq war may ease some of those strains, that campaign also has raised new questions about a key Army weapons program, the Apache helicopter gunship.

But few defense secretaries ever have had as much influence as Rumsfeld does now, coming off successful military campaigns in Afghanistan and Iraq. "It seems to me that he is in a tremendously strong position," said Johns Hopkins University strategy expert Eliot Cohen, author of "Supreme Command," an influential study of how civilians lead militaries in wartime.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A58343-2003Apr19.html

[Bereta_Eder]

One (another) thing that is peculiar is how Rumsfield seems to have ttaken over the position of the Foreign Minister. So many declaration... That is the job of the Foreign Minister of a country not the defence one.

[Imran Siddiqui]

We have been in a war, the Defense Minister assumes more power during that, not the Secretary of State.