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Tue 29 Nov, 2005 03:57 pm
Quote:"This is a group of people who don't merit the word `insurgency,' I think," Rumsfeld said Tuesday at a Pentagon news conference. He said the thought had come to him suddenly over the Thanksgiving weekend.
"It was an epiphany."
"I think that you can have a legitimate insurgency in a country that has popular support and has a cohesiveness and has a legitimate gripe," he said. "These people don't have a legitimate gripe." Still, he acknowledged that his point may not be supported by the standard definition of `insurgent.'
He promised to look it up.
Webster's New World College Dictionary defines the term "insurgent" as "rising up against established authority."
That Donald Rumsfeld is quite a card ain't he?
Laugh a minute, Boss . . . he's got the Iraqis in stitches . . .
Legitimate insurgency?
Doesn't it only become legitimate once it's successful?
He needs to read his classics.
I had a epiphany once't . . . left a stain on the front of my pants that just wouldn't come out in the wash . . . hadda throw 'em out . . .
I guess he figured that if the Loony Left can redefine White Phosphorus as a Chemical Weapon, despite over 50+ years of acceptance by every country that uses (used) it that it was a conventional weapon, he could redefine what insurgent meant.
I guess it depends what your definition of the word IS, is. B. Clinton
Bless the Repub's- in their world, 2 wrongs make a right
The rightwingnut desparation tactic . . .
Oh sh!t, they're scorin' off of us . . . quick, somebody mention Clinton ! ! !
"Infamy, Infamy...they've all got it in fer me!"
The new battle cry of the Republican party.
Setanta wrote:The rightwingnut desparation tactic . . .
Oh sh!t, they're scorin' off of us . . . quick, somebody mention Clinton ! ! !
That was pretty serious business, ruining that dress with a presidential discharge.
Of course Bush has destroyed the country with his demon seed, so I guess it evens out.
Fedral wrote:I guess he figured that if the Loony Left can redefine White Phosphorus as a Chemical Weapon, despite over 50+ years of acceptance by every country that uses (used) it that it was a conventional weapon, he could redefine what insurgent meant.
I guess it depends what your definition of the word IS, is. B. Clinton
Actually it was the Pentagon who defined WP as a chemical weapon.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0511/S00282.htm
I guess it depends on who uses it.
Is it me, or did it seem that Rummy was channeling a "Deep Thought" by Jack Handy?
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