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Home Front: WoT
End Of The Affair
2006-11-14
Food for thought.
Posted by:Seafarious

#6  That rings true, 3dc.
Posted by: .com   2006-11-14 22:52  

#5  Didn't Adelman always do those Start/Salt treaties?
Posted by: 3dc   2006-11-14 22:41  

#4  And we just know this is the full story and an exact recall of the entire conversation. Rummy was always this glib and stupid.

Imagine the book offers Adelman's gonna get...
Posted by: .com   2006-11-14 11:46  

#3  Â“When Rumsfeld said, in reaction to all the looting, ‘Stuff happens,Â’ and ‘ThatÂ’s what free people do,Â’ I was just so disappointed,” Adelman recalled last week. “This wasnÂ’t what free people did; itÂ’s what barbarians did.”

We are dealing with barbarians, QED.
Posted by: Excalibur   2006-11-14 11:43  

#2  This story disturbed me for quite some time after I read it. Apart from Adelman's breathtaking treachery, the question is what he knows that we don't. He insists that we were losing, I assume militarily. Rummy insisted that we were only losing in public opinion. Are we taking far greater losses than I am aware of? Is the ratio of friendly to enemy casualties getting worse? I want to understand.
Posted by: Jonathan   2006-11-14 11:15  

#1  Wow. I guess Rummy can't help his career anymore, so...
Posted by: .com   2006-11-14 07:58  

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