how to win friends and allies

"Hell, let's just bomb them too while we're flying over on our way to Baghdad."

(You just know someone in the Defense Dept. said this...)

I often wonder if Rumsfeld says those types of things with the administration's sanction or if he does that to lobby within the administration itself.

I don't have an answer to that CdK, but i don't believe the old Rummy is leashed, so it may well be just another example of his charm and wit . . .

Currently Rummy is making the circuit saying that War is the last thing they want to do. That means the war decision has already been made and they are getting spin out to point to later!

Heaven forbid, you're not saying our government would lie to us, are you ? ! ? ! ?

Oh the agony, the shame . . .

all right setanta thats one keyboard clean-up you own me.

heeheeheeheeheeheehee . . .

On my calendar for tomorrow - and I usually don't check ahead. There is always to much on today to handle more than one. It was an accident, but appropriate for here, IMHO.

Can you imagine part of your job requiring you to stand up infront of the world and speak from the hip?

Rummy is in deep poo over another comment about the draft.

He said that the draft was not the boon to the military that some might think; citing the training that took a long time, and the fact that these draftees didn't stay around after their tour...

I can see what he means, but it was translated that draftees were not appreciated. The Atlanta Constitution had a big headline to the effect "Rumsfeld slurs draftees, offends veterans." Like him or not, I don't think that characterization was fair.

I sure wouldn't want my every syllable to be dissected by a world, that already has a chip on their shoulder, where I was concerned.

Nor would i, Boss--which explains in large measure why i turned down my father's offer to finance a law school education, and why i would not run for office nor accept appointment to office, even with the proverbial gun at my head. I certainly could never argue your point about the difficulty of being in that spotlight.

Rumsfeld is in critical need of a Dale Carnegie intervention.

Is there a twelve-step program for obnoxious personality disorder?

PD, what a nice way of saying a@@hole!

right on PDiddie!

If Rummy calls France and Germany 'The Old Europe'publicly, what is he
calling them privately? "The Axis of Obstruction'?

The Hubris of the Bush administration is breath-taking!

Next he will be saying "The Old Europe is as worthless as the USA draftees">

'Tis by our less censored utterances that you will know us. As when Reagan did not know the mike was on and said of the USSR, let's just nuke 'em.

Hey - you guys have already attacked US! And we, as usual, are off to war with you. You dropped an F18 on Perth!

It slipped, honest . . .

Or maybe he meant that France and Germany are just as irrelevant as the UN.

Well, he will find that France and Germany - the most powerful economies in Europe, and just forming an alliance - are not irrelevant to themselves, or the rest of the world!

And, shouldn't be considered as such!