McNamera is dead

This is an enormous loss to the nation. Now who can we turn to in order to get the country mired in a costly and unwinnable war in Asia?

Oh wait...

Every time I think of some of the major tragedies and injustices of the '60s, McNamara''s stoneface pops into the forefront of my mind. I think Cheney and he were cut from the same cloth.

McNamara was a very smart man and did a lot. He raised the proportion of Strategic Air Command (SAC) strategic bombers on 15-minute ground alert from 25 percent to 50 percent, though lessening their vulnerability to missile attack. In December 1961 he established the Strike Command (STRICOM).
McNamara was also fundamentally associated with the Vietnam War, "McNamara's war," the country's most disastrous foreign venture, the only American war to end in abject withdrawal rather than victory.

don't think ima RIP this one...

Screw McNamara into the ground.

We must pound a stake into his heart and bury him with a sprig of wolfbane and rosemary.

...and Donald Rumsfeld should be entombed next to him, only you don't have to wait for him to die, if you ask me.

i've heard that hitler liked dogs

I believe it was MacNamara who killed the Edsel while at Ford. The fledgling new brand name had about a four year run when he nixed it. He set his sights next on the Mercury division, with the conviction that there should only be one brand name: Ford. He was called into public service before he was able to effect that change.

Y'think? I'll contribute the garlic cloves.

That 's a horrible insult to Cheney.

i'm pretty sure that's why he said it

That's the point.

marcusmachiavelli wrote:

He certainly held that opinion of himself and never tired of expressing it.

His favorite saying was:
"We were the brightest and the best."

I wish that Cheney had been the President instead of W.
We 'd have gotten a much better and much freer administration.
I 've never met him, but I hold him in the very highest esteem.





David

besides GWB and possibly the cheney family, you may be the only one

You really think GWB was in charge of the presidency and Cheney didn't run the show???? It's like saying Charlie McCarthy was in control of Edgar Bergen.

Yes, indeed.
I think that.
There were very considerable differences of opinion between them,
but as all good vice-presidents do,
Cheney buried his own views under his loyalty to the President.
One difference that cropped up was his gently, softly expressed
opinion that lesbians shoud have freedom to marry.
His child is a lesbian.

If Cheney had been President,
action in favor of personal freedom to defend your life from
predatory violence by swift and direct access to defensive emergency equipment
woud have been much more robust.

Cheney is a conservative, like Barry Goldwater and me.
Neither of the Bushes were nor are.
Liberty means little to them.
The philosophy of the Founders means little to them.

The Bushes r fake Republicans.





David

I find it extremely difficult to believe that you can actually believe this nonsense that you're spouting, David.

Oh, I forgot. You've got me on 'ignore'. Makes no difference what I say to you.