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2004-02-11 Home Front: WoT

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Posted by Steve 2004-02-11 1:20:08 PM|| || Front Page|| [11134 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 One of the best Secretary's of Defense in quite some time.

Posted by Daniel King 2004-2-11 1:30:36 PM|| 2004-2-11 1:30:36 PM|| Front Page Top

#2 Rummy is simply awesome.

Posted by .com 2004-2-11 1:42:37 PM|| 2004-2-11 1:42:37 PM|| Front Page Top

#3 Now that's what I call a righteous bitch-slapping!

Posted by Rex Mundi 2004-2-11 1:58:00 PM|| 2004-2-11 1:58:00 PM|| Front Page Top

#4 Even at the age of 70, Rummy is the coolest guy with the biggest b*lls on the planet!

Posted by Jennie Taliaferro 2004-2-11 2:01:50 PM|| [http://www.greatestjeneration.com] 2004-2-11 2:01:50 PM|| Front Page Top

#5 I agree..he was excellent at the conference

Posted by True German Ally 2004-2-11 2:42:36 PM|| 2004-2-11 2:42:36 PM|| Front Page Top

#6 Rummy in 2008 with Rice as his VP!

Posted by Charles 2004-2-11 2:52:32 PM|| 2004-2-11 2:52:32 PM|| Front Page Top

#7 Rummy didn't serve in Vietnam... so there.

Posted by AntiPasto 2004-2-11 2:55:58 PM|| 2004-2-11 2:55:58 PM|| Front Page Top

#8 Bush/McCain 2004- McCain/Powell 2008.

Posted by dataman1 2004-2-11 2:59:09 PM|| 2004-2-11 2:59:09 PM|| Front Page Top

#9 Antipasto just how childish and uniformed are you?
Rumsfeld was in the US house of representatives during the first half of the war. He resigned in 1969 and went to work in the White House for the remainder of that war. When was it you volunteered to serve your country in any capacity?

Posted by GK 2004-2-11 3:31:11 PM|| 2004-2-11 3:31:11 PM|| Front Page Top

#10 A nuclear weapon in the hands of Israel and and nuclear weapon in the hands of the aformention idiots, which includes the Palestinians, is kind of like some guy with a bar-b-que on his patio having a pack of matches and a serial arsonist having a pack of matches.

Only the loonies of the world cannot tell why there is a difference.

Posted by Michael 2004-2-11 3:46:32 PM|| 2004-2-11 3:46:32 PM|| Front Page Top

#11 Gotta agree with .com. This man is superb.

As for proliferation - things are getting much much worse since the unveling of what Pakistan has been up to. Read Belmont Club to see what he thinks of the situation. The terrible logic of the "The Three Conjectures" is almost upon us.

The next few years are going to be scary so I hope to God GWB gets re-elected.

Posted by Tony (UK) 2004-2-11 5:39:48 PM|| 2004-2-11 5:39:48 PM|| Front Page Top

#12 When was it you volunteered to serve your country in any capacity?
Well it's not a country but I served 19 years in Napoleon VII's Legion of Slack. Does that count?

Posted by AntiPasto 2004-2-11 6:21:09 PM|| 2004-2-11 6:21:09 PM|| Front Page Top

#13 "You don't play Dungeons and Dragons for all those years without learning a little something about courage."

Posted by eLarson 2004-2-11 6:41:43 PM|| 2004-2-11 6:41:43 PM|| Front Page Top

#14 I already had you figured for a slackard. does that mean you're 19 years old.

Posted by GK 2004-2-11 6:43:02 PM|| 2004-2-11 6:43:02 PM|| Front Page Top

#15 Rummy didn't serve in Vietnam... so there.

Then again, he didn't play "hide the medal" with Jane Fonda either, so that's two strikes against him...

Posted by Pappy 2004-2-11 6:51:19 PM|| 2004-2-11 6:51:19 PM|| Front Page Top

#16 Rumsfeld was a Navy pilot before Vietnam. He served 3 yrs as flight instructor and aviator in the early 50s and then did 18 more years in the ready reserve (i.e. drilling monthly) and then to the retired Reserve (who can legally also be activated to regular service) for 12 more years. He retired as an O-6 (Navy Captain = Army full Colonel).

Rumsfeld became SecDefense for the 1st time in 1975.

Posted by rkb 2004-2-11 7:40:35 PM|| 2004-2-11 7:40:35 PM|| Front Page Top

#17 "You don't play Dungeons and Dragons for all those years without learning a little something about courage
Now that's just insulting... I'm more of a PanzerBlitz, PanzerBush sort of leader. Altho I've binked around with Sturm nach Osten I've never had the 3000 sq ft. of wall space to properly enjoy the experience.

Posted by AntiPasto 2004-2-11 7:43:26 PM|| 2004-2-11 7:43:26 PM|| Front Page Top

#18 And between you and me and Faisal.... you need to read the posts..... I'm on your side.

Posted by AntiPasto 2004-2-11 7:45:52 PM|| 2004-2-11 7:45:52 PM|| Front Page Top

#19 It's Okay AntiPasto, I got the joke, and I am sure a lot of others did...

I got to Avalon Hill First Class, but then puberty intervened. Now that I'm a happily married old fart, I have time to get back into some the of computerized versions of these sorts of games, and realize what I have been missing all these years.

Damn puberty.

Posted by Carl in NH 2004-2-11 8:26:21 PM|| 2004-2-11 8:26:21 PM|| Front Page Top

#20 Oh, geez - I was rummaging in a closet yesterday and came across some of those old games. Long live hexagonal grids! My beloved brought one of those games for us to play on our honeymoon ... not our FIRST activity, but we did play for hours one cold afternoon, sitting in the lodge in the Blue Ridge while the rain came down, with a fire in the fireplace, glasses of port (I *like* port, okay?) while I tried to learn the rules to a game he'd been playing for several years.

That was 30 years ago come May. Yikes!!

Posted by rkb 2004-2-11 9:15:26 PM|| 2004-2-11 9:15:26 PM|| Front Page Top

#21 The Palestinians have generals? Jeez, talk about your ultimate hack job!

Posted by tu3031 2004-2-11 9:52:05 PM|| 2004-2-11 9:52:05 PM|| Front Page Top

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