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Ant:
Apparently looney liberals aren't the only ones upset with Donald Rumsfeld.  This past week three prominent republican advocates spoke out against the Secretary of Defense.

Let's begin with a clip of Senator Chuck Hagel voicing his opinion of Rumsfeld:

http://movies.ziaspace.com/Hagel.wmv

Joe Biden goes first, so fast forward about one minute.

Then there was John McCain, and General Norman Schwarzkopf

"I was very, very disappointed — no, let me put it stronger — I was angry by the words of the secretary of defense when he laid it all on the Army, as if he, as the secretary of defense, didn't have anything to do with the Army and the Army was over there doing it themselves, screwing up," - Schwarzkopf

McCain went a step further and claimed he had "no confidence" in Rumsfeld's leadership. 

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6708495/

Lincoln:
Rumsfield is a douchebag. Did anyone see him in Kuwait? They were grilling him and one of his responses was:

"I'm an old man and it's early in the morning."

I say fire his ass.

M Dogg™:
I can honestly say that any respect I had for Rumsfeld, and it wasn't much to begin with, is lost. I hope that other Republicans speak out against this. I am tired of the Bush people fucking up and people ignoring it. And it's not a sex scandle, this is costing us lives.

Ant:
It is costing more than just lives and besides the republicans just write off the lives lost.  Everyone in the military joined voluntarily didn't they?  Or so goes the logic of a diehard. 

But beyond lives its costing money, jobs, respect, and sustained prosperity.  America is not the only superpower to have existed.  Plenty of others, many more powerful, have become overly confident, or rather arrogant, and have fallen from power.  The republicans are successfully consolidating power in the American political system.  Yet they fail to realize, or just don't care, that if they do finally achieve lasting power, it will be over a much diminished country. 

The E.U., and China both have a shot at overtaking American Supremacy.  The Republicans promised us this war would pay for itself, we might even make a profit some thought, in the end the only ones profiting from the Iraqi mess are the MNCs doing business there, China who bought half a trillion dollars in U.S. debt during the past few years, and a few looney republicans who have temporarily gained a false sense of superiority. 

Trauma-san:
I love how McCain goes on and on about how Rumsfeld has understaffed the war effort, but yet it was McCain, not Rumsfeld, who was around the last 18 years in the senate, overseeing the military budget in his special committe he's so proud of.  It was McCain, for 18 years, who saw military cut after military cut decimate the military, and now it's McCain saying we're not using enough troops in Iraq.  Rumsfeld gets the blame for being underfunded to the point of having improperly equipped tanks, but it was McCain who cut the funding for the defense program, time and time again.  So how does he blame Rumsfeld, who has a budget to spend, provided by McCain (essentially)?  I guess Rumsfeld is the new whipping boy at the whitehouse. 

The thing that just irks me about politics is, people just bitch bitch bitch.  There's so much pessimism and negativity.  All people do is complain.  What a bunch of pussies.  Let me tell you another thing, too... just because you were a pow, and a war hero, doesn't mean you know what's best for the entire military.  I respect Mccain's service to our country, and he's a true american hero, nobody can take that away from him... but he's not necessarily, by that resume, qualified to instruct the defense secretary of the united states how to run his job.  Being a good pilot doesn't necessarily make you a great military mind. 

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