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2004-04-27 Russia
McNamara: Nuclear War Still Possible; NY No. 1 Target
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Posted by Mark Espinola 2004-04-27 01:19|| || Front Page|| [11126 views since 2007-05-07]  Top

#1 Wow! What a flashingly obvious piece of insight!

Future headlines:

McNamara: Muslims Hate Jews

McNamara: Water is Wet

McNamara: I Wet Myself
Posted by Robert Crawford  2004-04-27 8:10:06 AM|| [http://www.kloognome.com]  2004-04-27 8:10:06 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 Whatever dude, just keep yourself and your damn "advice" away from all planning at the Pentagon.
Posted by Laurence of the Rats  2004-04-27 8:13:55 AM||   2004-04-27 8:13:55 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 Don't be sooo mean to Sec. Mac. I miss him. I culda been a contenda.
Posted by TFX 2004-04-27 8:44:21 AM||   2004-04-27 8:44:21 AM|| Front Page Top

#4 RC, be nice. Based on the article, he's spent 13 years figuring this out... :-)
Posted by snellenr  2004-04-27 9:23:32 AM||   2004-04-27 9:23:32 AM|| Front Page Top

#5 More proof that there ain't no justice: this old war criminal and human disaster area is still with us.

As JFK's secdef, this pompous fool brought in a crowd of "whiz-kids," academic analysts, to revamp every aspect of Pentagon operations, from procurement and planning to tactical doctrine, for heaven's sake.

He was utterly convinced that he and his gang had all the answers, and that their conclusions should trump professional advice in every case.
The result was a national disaster whose consequences still haunt our national life to this day.

McNamara admitted, finally, that he had been wrong about Vietnam, but his mea culpa largely reflects standard lefty doctrine about the war, and ignores the real cause: the supreme arrogance and stupidity of his own tenure at the Pentagon.
Posted by Atomic Conspiracy 2004-04-27 9:39:21 AM||   2004-04-27 9:39:21 AM|| Front Page Top

#6 ..Hey Bob, good to see ya!... STFU and drive yer freakin' Edsel!!!!
The DOD is in some ways still trying to shake off the damage this idiot did forty years ago. Either ignore him or tell him to follow the example of SecDef Forrestal.

Mike
Posted by Mike Kozlowski 2004-04-27 9:45:18 AM||   2004-04-27 9:45:18 AM|| Front Page Top

#7 He's come full cirle: drinks Ensure and wears Depends. You know, when you make it back to diapers and pablum, well, you've been here too long.

But this asshole is "special"... he should've had a close encounter with a friendly frag 35-40 yrs ago.
Posted by .com 2004-04-27 10:11:33 AM||   2004-04-27 10:11:33 AM|| Front Page Top

#8 You guys do know that Rumsfeld was one of the youngest of the Whiz Kids, right?
Posted by rkb  2004-04-27 10:35:44 AM||   2004-04-27 10:35:44 AM|| Front Page Top

#9 When I was very young I assumed Johnson & McNamara knew what they were doing, too. I also inhaled. Oh, wait, that's redundant.
Posted by .com 2004-04-27 11:01:57 AM||   2004-04-27 11:01:57 AM|| Front Page Top

#10 He's just doing it to advertise his new Florida based 1-900 Psychic Tip line.
Posted by Anonymoose 2004-04-27 11:48:25 AM||   2004-04-27 11:48:25 AM|| Front Page Top

#11 If McNamara says the Russians are going to nuke NYC, I'd start buying real estate there.
Posted by 11A5S 2004-04-27 12:11:19 PM||   2004-04-27 12:11:19 PM|| Front Page Top

#12 TFX: Almost missed that one. Good, but very obscure.
Posted by 11A5S 2004-04-27 12:12:52 PM||   2004-04-27 12:12:52 PM|| Front Page Top

#13 Thanks 11A5S. People forget, I was famous once. I didn't get smaller, the vision did.

Posted by TFX 2004-04-27 1:11:06 PM||   2004-04-27 1:11:06 PM|| Front Page Top

#14 "You guys do know that Rumsfeld was one of the youngest of the Whiz Kids, right?"

Bullshit.
All 10 of the so-called Whiz-kids had been Army Air Force officers in WW2 (when Rumsfeld was still a child) and all had worked at Ford with McNamara.
Rumsfeld never worked for Ford and did not serve in the Kennedy/Johnson DoD. He was elected to Congress in 1962, just a year after McNamara became Secdef. He stayed in Congress until 1971, two years after LBJ had left office.
He had left the Navy in 1957 and served as a Congressional staffer and worked for an investment firm until his election to Congress.
Posted by Atomic Conspiracy 2004-04-27 9:44:11 PM||   2004-04-27 9:44:11 PM|| Front Page Top

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