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You are here: Home / Foreign Affairs / War / They Did It Again

They Did It Again

by John Cole|  December 6, 200311:56 am| 16 Comments

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Those bastards did it again! Another poll-driven PR stunt at the expense of the taxpayers! This time the Secretary of Defense, instead of the Commander in Chief, went and visited the troops in an unannounced visit. Have they no shame! How dare they visit the troops! Will they do anything to get elected? Will they do anything for a photo-op!?!?

Be the first to find the following idiotic statements from the lunatic fringe:

1.) Some variation of ‘This just show the situation is so bad that Rumsfeld had to go unannounced.’

2.) Some variation of ‘This just shows what a coward Bush is, since Rumsfeld stayed so much longer.’

3.) Rumsfeld just went to upstage Hillary Clinton’s remarks.

4.) Sure, he will go to Iraq, but will Rumsfeld go to any funerals?

5.) He is just there to get his pal Chalabi in line.

6.) This is a sign of desperation- our policy and lack of plan is failing so bad that these stunts are just being done to distract from the miserable failure.

7.) This is just an attempt to distract people about our failure in Afghanistan.

I am sure there will be more. Who knows how these twisted minds work.

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  1. 1.

    Oliver

    December 6, 2003 at 12:33 pm

    So why did he go, oh sage one?

  2. 2.

    John Cole

    December 6, 2003 at 1:14 pm

    Because he is the Secretary of Defense. You kill me…

  3. 3.

    CadillacJaq

    December 6, 2003 at 1:47 pm

    Any folks that have a problem with GWB, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Ashcroft, Snow or anyone else in the current adminstration today might take a good long look at the previous eight years— check out this web site:

    http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/RANCHO/POLITICS/scandals_arc.html

  4. 4.

    MommaBear

    December 6, 2003 at 4:44 pm

    …Who knows how these twisted minds work…

    Are those really ‘minds’ and do they really ‘work’?

    Enquiring minds [working models] really want to know.

  5. 5.

    Charlie

    December 6, 2003 at 5:16 pm

    Oliver, you moron, it’s his job.

  6. 6.

    mark

    December 6, 2003 at 9:05 pm

    I do not know if Oliver’s comment was made jokingly or was actually serious.

    BUT, if he seriously needed to ask why the Secretary of Defense was going to visit troops, at least he could demand to know why Hillary went over there.

  7. 7.

    Greyhawk

    December 6, 2003 at 10:15 pm

    Fools! He went to fetch the oiiiil!

  8. 8.

    CPTHAM

    December 7, 2003 at 1:29 am

    This is off topic but…

    This kind of reminds me of an old Star Trek episode.

    Captain of U.S.S. Kerry

    “Computer, begin auto destruct sequence.”

    Computer

    “Please authenticate with correct password”

    Captain of U.S.S. Kerry

    “I voted for what I thought was best for the country. Did I expect Howard Dean to go off to the left and say, ‘I’m against everything’? Sure. Did I expect George Bush to f uck it up as badly as he did? I don’t think anybody did,”

    Computer

    “Password confirmed, auto destruct sequence countdown begun. 10, 9, 8, 7, 6………

  9. 9.

    Brian

    December 7, 2003 at 3:43 am

    I love this common New York Times trick:

    He also went for the first time to Kirkuk, the center of Iraq’s northern oil fields, and met with L. Paul Bremer, the U.S. civilian administrator of Iraq.

    Gotta get the “It’s all about oil” dig in. Gee, it never occured to those liberals that it would have been a lot CHEAPER and EASIER to buy it, and continue letting Saddam fill his graves and threaten us. But, hey, that’s exactly what Oliver’s boy Clinton did in North Korea with great success, right? They sure stopped that nuke program after all the food, oil, and cash we gave them.

  10. 10.

    Yehudit

    December 7, 2003 at 3:58 am

    This site debunks whatreallyhappened.com, which is virulently antisemitic and conspiracy-theory-heavy as those types tend to be.

    http://www.sicmuse.com/weblog/

  11. 11.

    cameron

    December 7, 2003 at 10:02 am

    Yea,
    I thought it weird that a righty would use whatreallyhappened.com as a reference site to slam Clinton.

    Getting desperate these says I guess.

  12. 12.

    Bill Quick

    December 7, 2003 at 1:33 pm

    I think the usual suspects already have all the bases covered, John:

    Link to Buried Donks

  13. 13.

    Keith

    December 7, 2003 at 5:13 pm

    Couldnt he just call and save a few hundred thousand ya stupid dress wearin fags?

  14. 14.

    CadillaqJaq

    December 8, 2003 at 12:57 pm

    Not a desperate ‘righty’ at all.

    If you really looked at the link posted: Clinton Scandal Summary Archives pop up with a fair amount of information on your boy Bill & his administration. Nothing new, just a reminder of what we aren’t experiencing today.

    whatshappeningnow.com is not a particular fav of mine but they get it right on occasion.

    Ciao.

  15. 15.

    Kimmitt

    December 8, 2003 at 4:34 pm

    You know, I was pretty pissed about some of those things (Clinton was stupid not to keep it in his pants, and the misuse of FBI files was genuinely bad). But I’d trade then for now any day of the week and twice on Sundays; give me a President who bonks interns over a President who holds American citizens indefinitely without charges or access to counsel. Give me a President who likely misused FBI files over a President whose FBI spends its counterterrorism money on observing dissenting protestors. Give me a President who gave some of his friends in a travel agency sweetheart deals over a President whose bills are written by his campaign contributors.

    I never thought I’d say this, but God, I miss Bill Clinton.

  16. 16.

    Slartibartfast

    December 10, 2003 at 5:57 am

    Give me a President who’s willing to cruise-missile an aspirin factory in a desperate attempt to divert attention from his obstruction of justice, over a President who’s willing to bite the bullet and hunt down and kill our enemies. Every day of the week, and twice on Sundays. Because that’s the kind of guy I am: willing to tolerate any kind of fuckage as long as it’s Democratic fuckage.

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