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Character on Parade: Rummy declined honor as âPerson of the Yearâ

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Posted by Dragon Fly 2004-01-07 11:26:08 AM|| || Front Page|| [2 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Not only does this guy have a pair that clang like church bells, but he is honorable as well. Don't see nearly enough of that from public figures nowadays.

Posted by JerseyMike 2004-1-7 1:09:42 PM|| 2004-1-7 1:09:42 PM|| Front Page Top

#2 Yup, this is why the internal leftists hate him and the international crazies are suffering high pucker-factor syndrome. They don't understand integrity because they don't have any.

Posted by 4thInfVet 2004-1-7 2:09:43 PM|| 2004-1-7 2:09:43 PM|| Front Page Top

#3 Agreed, Jersey. His only real flaw is an annoying tendancy towards penny-pinching (He's STILL trying to bring the war in on budget, without increasing the number of active duty troops in the Army). He tends to go deaf whenever someone in the service tells him we need more than 500,000 fulltime troops.

Still, that's a minor flaw, and one I hope he can be broken of if/when Bush wins a second term.

Yeah. He's got a pair.

Ed.

Posted by Ed Becerra 2004-1-7 2:19:28 PM|| 2004-1-7 2:19:28 PM|| Front Page Top

#4 He's also smart enough to know TIME would manage to smear him while pretending to pay tribute.

Posted by Anonymous 2004-1-7 2:57:51 PM|| 2004-1-7 2:57:51 PM|| Front Page Top

#5 His only real flaw is an annoying tendancy towards penny-pinching (He's STILL trying to bring the war in on budget, without increasing the number of active duty troops in the Army). He tends to go deaf whenever someone in the service tells him we need more than 500,000 fulltime troops.

Is that politically even possible? To pay, train and equip an additional 500,000 troops is going to cost (at say, $100,000 apiece per year) another $50 billion a year.*

* I know this is a way low estimate, because roughly $50 billion of additional - i.e. on top of their normal - funding was appropriated for the forces in Iraq alone, which number only 125,000. Picture a total increase of $200 billion for that 500,000 troops, and we're probably in the right ballpark. It's not that we can't afford it - the question is whether it's necessary. As soon as Iraqis get their government up and going, we can extract most of our troops from Iraq, leaving a division or so there. Note that we have done the same with other governments starting from scratch including Greece and South Korea during the Cold War period.

Posted by Zhang Fei 2004-1-7 4:21:29 PM|| 2004-1-7 4:21:29 PM|| Front Page Top

#6 #4 He's also smart enough to know TIME would manage to smear him while pretending to pay tribute.

So true.

Posted by B 2004-1-7 5:59:12 PM|| 2004-1-7 5:59:12 PM|| Front Page Top

#7 I thought TIME, given their bias, was unworthy to name the US Army as 'Person of the Year'. Well Rummy turned them down prior.

So the PC cover pic was a 'coincidence'?

HA!

Posted by DANEgerus 2004-1-7 6:13:52 PM|| [http://www.danegerus.com/weblog] 2004-1-7 6:13:52 PM|| Front Page Top

#8 The Army found it outside a Mini Mart... It's really mine.

Posted by Shipman 2004-1-7 6:20:01 PM|| 2004-1-7 6:20:01 PM|| Front Page Top

#9 Zheng Fei,
We don't need another half-million active troops, but another two divisions (~30,000 warriors, 10,000 support & garrison troops) would make life a lot easier for everyone, and allow better troop rotations in and out of such places as Iraq, Bosnia, Korea, and wherever else US troops are deployed. It would also give us a "cushion" in case we get tied up in somewhere like Iraq, and one of the other tinhats decides to play rough in the neighborhood. I'd also encourage another two to four reserve/Guard divisions be added. I know personally that the military was cut too deeply, too fast, after the collapse of the Soviet Union. We're still trying to recover. It's slow, it's painful, and it's expensive. It's also NECESSARY.

Posted by Old Patriot 2004-1-7 9:31:06 PM|| [http://users.codenet.net/mweather/default.htm] 2004-1-7 9:31:06 PM|| Front Page Top

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