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2005-08-11 Iraq-Jordan

Rumsfeld: Iraq bombs 'clearly from Iran'

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Posted by tipper 2005-08-11 00:00|| || Front Page|| [2 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Cajones to do something about the revelation?

Posted by borgboy 2005-08-11 01:37|| 2005-08-11 01:37|| Front Page Top

#2 I'm withholding a rant I just completed based upon that comment, just to be nice and give you a chance to think. Tell me, what do you believe Rummy should do with it? Right this minute, what should he recommend (he's not the CinC, after all) be done. Right this minute? What?

Posted by .com 2005-08-11 05:51|| 2005-08-11 05:51|| Front Page Top

#3 Rummy is the kindest, politest, most soft spoken accuser of Iranian shenanigans I've ever heard of! Brings me to tears! He makes me believe maybe we can all, just get along!!

Posted by smn 2005-08-11 11:35|| 2005-08-11 11:35|| Front Page Top

#4 smn,

Why don't you take of your mask off, on the SEAL video and Rummy will be glad to show you, his kindness.

Posted by Poison Reverse 2005-08-11 11:39|| 2005-08-11 11:39|| Front Page Top

#5 Poison Reverse,
don't confuse me with the idea of me being an insurgent or sympathizer; let me make myself perfectly clear on this matter (WOT)...I would rather see every man, woman and child killed in Afghanistan or Iraq if it would bring that Seal (or his buddies) back to his family! If I were King smn, I would "Herodize" the male population of those countries, If I were President smn
I would nuke the entire Axis of Evil with 1,000 H bombs and then commit suicide in office!!Understand now...Dismissed!

Posted by smn 2005-08-11 12:19|| 2005-08-11 12:19|| Front Page Top

#6 Are you sure you mean Herodize, smn? All he was supposed to have done was to kill all the male babies born in a given year. How would that advance the war on terror?

Posted by trailing wife 2005-08-11 12:49|| 2005-08-11 12:49|| Front Page Top

#7 "I would nuke the entire Axis of Evil with 1,000 H bombs"
That's where you and I differ. I would have used 999 H bombs.

Posted by Poison Reverse 2005-08-11 13:15|| 2005-08-11 13:15|| Front Page Top

#8 smn: "internal consistency in your comments is a good thing for credibility". Write that on the board 500 times

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2005-08-11 14:32|| 2005-08-11 14:32|| Front Page Top

#9 Poison Reverse> That's where you and I differ. I would have used 999 H bombs.

PR, I always thought you were a liberal.

>:>

Posted by Red Dog 2005-08-11 14:34|| 2005-08-11 14:34|| Front Page Top

#10 My cynical outlook at times Frank, is pressured by the body bags that return to the States! My 'internal consistency' though 'cored' can be persuaded or bent by opinions and discourse from grounded individuals such as yourself!

Posted by smn 2005-08-11 18:35|| 2005-08-11 18:35|| Front Page Top

#11 smn - if you are so concerned with body bags, why aren't you upset about the 40,000+ annual auto accidents where families die in flaming crashes? Why aren't you concerned with the millions of drug addiction related deaths? How about women and children murdered in the US in violent crimes? So apprently it's not really violent death that bothers you but just the self-righteous feeling you get by opposing the war.

Posted by 2b 2005-08-11 18:53|| 2005-08-11 18:53|| Front Page Top

#12 Trailing Wife #6,
To reveal my inner id slightly, I don't see this as a War On Terror, but a War Of Testicles! Remove the males "Herodize", remove the problem! The only female I even remotely hold responsible for these problems is Eve! "W" is sugar coating this with his rephrasing of what I still think was an accurate statement when he said a few years ago, that this was a 'crusade' and was forced to correct himself! Islam waged a holy war on Christianity in the late 1980's!

Posted by smn 2005-08-11 19:03|| 2005-08-11 19:03|| Front Page Top

#13 smn - you mean your inner confusion. I have an idea - why don't we round up all of the men, put them in concentration camps and then turn them into bread. Don't you think that's a brilliant way to get rid of all of the evil, war mongering men?

In fact, why don't we just kill them as soon as they are born?

Posted by 2b 2005-08-11 19:07|| 2005-08-11 19:07|| Front Page Top

#14 "#13 smn - you mean your inner confusion. I have an idea - why don't we round up all of the men, put them in concentration camps and then turn them into bread. Don't you think that's a brilliant way to get rid of all of the evil, war mongering men?"

Hey wait a minute ... wasn't there a movie called "Soylent Green" starring that dude that played Moses in which people get reduced to green crackers?

Posted by Glolusing Flereth5459 2005-08-11 19:12|| http://www.calderonswirbelwind.blogspot.com]">[http://www.calderonswirbelwind.blogspot.com] 2005-08-11 19:12|| Front Page Top

#15 I don't oppose the war 2b #11, you didn't see me anywhere near Michael Moore, or in his movie; or near Jane Fonda! If you're testing my loyalty like Poison Reverse tried to do, consider this, George Washingon is my daddy!! About the 40,000 accidents you mentioned; they don't try to take my country away from me. Iran is taking the wrong signal from Rummy, mark my words, High Noon is Coming!

Posted by smn 2005-08-11 19:16|| 2005-08-11 19:16|| Front Page Top

#16 It's really quite interesting to hear the macho posturing coming from those who have neither to fight the battles nor make the hard decisions.

The warriors I know - real ones - don't need the swagger.

Posted by leader of the pack 2005-08-11 19:30|| 2005-08-11 19:30|| Front Page Top

#17 nobody can do macho posturing? I'd say most here at RB are 'pro-bombing the f&ck out of Iran', yet realize other considerations prevent that ....so far.

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2005-08-11 20:12|| 2005-08-11 20:12|| Front Page Top

#18 Swagger? Posturing? I'd say this is more along the lines of smn having escaped the asylum again.

Posted by Darrell 2005-08-11 20:42|| 2005-08-11 20:42|| Front Page Top

#19 agreed

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2005-08-11 21:29|| 2005-08-11 21:29|| Front Page Top

#20 War Of Testicles?

Best be careful saying things like that around all the women wearing the American uniform over there. Sgt. Mom has some amusing (to me at least) tales from her own experience, and that of her daughter Marine Cpl. Blondie (I seem to remember her being promoted, but I'm not clear on Marine rank names.), both in peace and in war.

Posted by trailing wife 2005-08-11 23:23|| 2005-08-11 23:23|| Front Page Top

#21 Pack leader, please let me know when you think I am out of line. Posturing, swaggering or being a chickenhawk have never been my intention, but at times I may well need reminding where the line is. Thanks!

(This is also addressed to any of you who are/were warriors. You know who you are.)

Posted by trailing wife 2005-08-11 23:28|| 2005-08-11 23:28|| Front Page Top

#22 frankly I'm not a warrior, and my opinion here means little in influencing Rummy's WOT (he's doing fine without me). That does not mean I have to withhold. Nor will I

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