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| Cheney Defends Rumsfeld, Says ’Get Off His Case’ |
| 2004-05-09 |
| EFL - caught via Drudge - Looks like the White House is getting their act back together. 7 out of 10 Americans don’t think he should resign to elevate Dem egos Vice President Dick Cheney rushed to the aid of Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld -- under fire over Iraqi prison abuses -- by saying people should "get off his case" and let Rumsfeld do his job. "Don Rumsfeld is the best secretary of defense the United States has ever had," Cheney said in a statement from his office late on Saturday. The statement appeared to signal a White House push to rally Republicans behind the embattled Rumsfeld. "People ought to get off his case and let him do his job," said Cheney, a Republican. |
| Posted by:Frank G |
| #3 lucky mucki at the beech today |
| Posted by: Shipman 2004-05-09 6:23:58 PM |
| #2 Ah, Cheney brings up a point to ponder: Is Rumsfeld in fact the best Secretary of Defense the US has *ever* had ? ("ever" would be since 1947, when the position was first created) Here's a list from Wikipedia. Certainly he is better than Aspin, Perry, or Cohen, Cinton's various SecDefs (the fact that he kept switching seems to me symptomatic of that admnistration's lack of a firm hand on the tiller when it came to things military). I would imagine Cap Weinberger would be up there too, if not ranking higher than Rumsfeld. Reaching way back, it seems to me that George Marshall should rate high on the list, though I am not sure exactly how he was as Secretary of Defense, although certainly he was something of a demigod as Army Chief of Staff during WWII. I can firmly state that McNamara and Clifford should be at the bottom of the list, thanks to the mishandling of the Vietnam War. A final note is that Cheney had the Defense position under the first Bush. |
| Posted by: Carl in N.H. 2004-05-09 2:50:31 PM |
| #1 yup - go for it Cheney . Rummy's doing fine . Its not his resposibility to micro manage the conflict ..... As an Englishman , i am truely happy that Rummy is leading the boat .. I LOVE HIS KARATE POSE SPEECHES . A true Sensei Master :) |
| Posted by: MacNails 2004-05-09 9:56:24 AM |