Good ol' Don Rumsfeld and his charming wit:
Hundreds of troops applauded a comrade who complained to Rumsfeld that U.S. forces were being forced to dig up scrap metal to protect their vehicles in Iraq because of a shortage of armored ones."Now why do we soldiers have to dig through local landfills for pieces of scrap metal and compromised ballistic glass to up-armor our vehicles? And why don't we have those resources readily available to us?" the soldier asked.
Rumsfeld asked the soldier to repeat the question.
The soldier said, "A lot of us are getting ready to move north (into Iraq) relatively soon. Our vehicles are not armored. We're digging pieces of rusted scrap metal and compromised ballistic glass that's already been shot up, dropped, busted -- picking the best out of this scrap to put on our vehicles to take into combat."
"We do not have proper armament vehicles to carry with us north."
Rumsfeld conceded that "not every vehicle has the degree of armor that it would be desirable for it to have," and said the Army was hurrying to provide more armored vehicles, adding 400 per month.
But Rumsfeld added, "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."
"If you think about it, you can have all the armor in the world on a tank and a tank can be blown up. And you can have an up-armored Humvee and it can be blown up," Rumsfeld said.
What exactly does this guy have to do to get fired, fellate a goat on national television?
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What exactly does this guy have to do to get fired, fellate a goat on national television?
It's fucking incredible ain't it?
What exactly does this guy have to do to get fired, fellate a goat on national television?
Depends. If the goat was a Democrat, Ann Coulter would write a column about how the goat came onto him first. If it was a Republican goat, well, kudos all around, then!
Rumsfeld was originally elected in a congressional district that either
encompassed or was next door to Glenview
Naval Air Station here in the Chicago
area. I think it's high time that someone
checked the local soil and water table
to make sure future generations aren't
exposed to whatever caused his
mental dysfunction.
The goat thing won't do it either. Unless it can be proven that the goat was gay....
I firmly believe that Don Rumsfeld could go on national televison and say "Fuck you all, you slimy little peons." And get away with it. I just don't understand why.
Why? 'Cause the madman in chief can't admit he ever made any mistakes, that's why.
Rummy basically said [even though we've had three years,] we can't get you hte armor you need. Then, in esence he said, you don't need it anyway!
Love to see him drive point on the next convoy north ... strapped to the bumper!
I read in the National Post this morning where that question was actually planted by a reported for a Florida newspaper.
It's still a valid question naturally, but I'm sure some of our SoCon friends will be up in a minor huff if true.
You could have the most educated populace in the world, and still elect an idiot! You could have the best intelligence force in the world and still go to war on a mistake! You can blow up thousands of their people and still not have them surrender!
Hey, Rummy- I like this game!