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Thread ID: 16036 | Posts: 6 | Started: 2004-12-19
2004-12-19 20:02 | User Profile
Lord knows I'm not warming up to Rumsfeld by a long stretch - and I don't even have any purely [I]anecdotal [/I] evidence to back this up, but the hair on my neck is up and my Spidey sense is tingling that Rummy has, in the past few months, either offended - or been judged expendable by - some ominously powerful Team Bush Khazar....perhaps even His Infernal Majesty, Perle himself.
I smell fear....of pork products.
Not only because of who mostly comprises Team Bush, but because lately Rumsfeld is being nibbled to death by angry ducks in the exact type of [I]get him every day no matter how petty the 'story', just keep going after him[/I] media campaign that Jews orchestrate by second nature.
Like I said, it's just a nagging hunch. But it's the Alice Kramden of nagging hunches.
[QUOTE][B]After Outcry, Rumsfeld Says He Will Sign Condolences[/B] [I]Report Reveals His Signature Was Stamped on Letters to Dead Soldiers' Families[/I]
[FONT=Times New Roman]WASHINGTON (Dec. 19) - Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld will begin personally signing condolence letters sent to families of troops killed in Iraq and Afghanistan, after receiving criticism over his use of mechanical signatures, Stars and Stripes reported on its Web site.
In a statement provided to Stars and Stripes on Thursday, Rumsfeld tacitly admitted that in the past he hasn't personally signed the letters, but said he was responsible for writing and approving each of the 1,000-plus messages sent to the fallen soldiers' families.
"I have directed that in the future I sign each letter," he said in the statement.
"I am deeply grateful for the many letters I have received from the families of those who have been killed in the service of our country, and I recognize and honor their personal loss."
In a separate statement, Pentagon spokesman Lawrence Di Rita said, "In the interest of ensuring timely contact with grieving family members, he has not individually signed each letter."
Department of Defense officials for the past few weeks had said only that the content of the letters was private, the Web site reported.
But several families of troops killed overseas said they were sure the notes they received hadn't been signed by hand, and said they were angry that Rumsfeld wasn't paying attention to their loss.
"To me it's an insult, not only as someone who lost a loved one but also as someone who served in Iraq," Army Spc. Ivan Medina told Stripes.
"This doesn't show our families the respect they deserve," said Medina, a New York resident whose twin brother, Irving, was killed in a roadside bombing in Iraq this summer.
Illinois resident Bette Sullivan, whose son John was killed in November 2003 while working as an Army mechanic in Iraq, was incensed when she, her son's wife and her grandchildren received the exact same condolence letter with the apparently stamped signature.
"If each family receives two copies, how many signatures does that amount to?" she asked in an e-mail response to Stripes. "I can understand the use of stamped signatures for his brothers' mementos, but for those of his wife and children and mother? No, no, no."
Retired Army Col. David Hackworth, an author and frequent critic of the Department of Defense, publicly criticized Rumsfeld in a syndicated column earlier this month for not reviewing each KIA letter personally.
He called the fake signatures "like having it signed by a monkey."
"Using those machines is pretty common, but it shouldn't be in cases of those who have died in action," he said. "How can (DOD officials) feel the emotional impact of that loss if they're not even looking at the letters?"
Hackworth said he objected to using the stamped signatures for promotion and commendation letters as well, but said not personally handling the condolence letters is a much more serious offense, the Web site reported.
Family members had expressed similar concerns to Stripes about President Bush's signature on his condolence letters, but Allen Abney, spokesman for the president, said that Bush does personally sign the letters sent from the White House.[/FONT][/QUOTE]
2004-12-19 21:02 | User Profile
Perhaps due to age and health consideration he has volunteered to play the fall guy (like Jack Ruby) to take blame away from where it belongs. I have a hard time trusting anyone whose last name ends in "feld", especially when he has done so much to benefit TPTB.
2004-12-20 00:10 | User Profile
Now Rumsfeld is saying he'll personally sign every letter to each dead soldier. I'm sure he'll put his heart and soul into every signature, too. :rolleyes:
2004-12-20 18:54 | User Profile
[quote=il ragno]Lord knows I'm not warming up to Rumsfeld by a long stretch - and I don't even have any purely anecdotal evidence to back this up, but the hair on my neck is up and my Spidey sense is tingling that Rummy has, in the past few months, either offended - or been judged expendable by - some ominously powerful Team Bush Khazar....perhaps even His Infernal Majesty, Perle himself.
Yeah, I've had the same feeling myself recently. All the signs are there: semi-prominent republicans begin to "express concerns" and "misgivings" that the SecDef is not up to snuff, or best of all, he "lacks sensitivity" while the Prez feigns "total confidence" in the soon-to-be-disposed-of mark, all amidst a backdrop of constant press niggling and whispering ("Rubberstampgate" LOL). My theory is that Rummy's being set up to take the fall after the January elections result in the clusterf**k that's pretty much a foregone conclusion. But whatever, you can definitely see the chum in the water the past coupla news cycles and the sharks are beginning to swim in ever-tighter circles.
Then, you'll get to see Perle or Wolfie as the new, more aggressive SecDef! Maybe that was Rummy's fatal mistake. He balked or had misgivings when ordered to to implement the sort of policies in Iraq that will be necessary to prevent a total U.S. rout, such as carpet bombing rebel cities, "black bag" jobs on mosques and prominent opposition personalities, mass executions and Israel's favorite game, collective punishment (which is only bad when "Natzees" or "Ay-rabs" do it, natch.)
It does stink worse than a fart in a shower stall, not that I'm getting all gushy over the fate of McNafeld, either.
2004-12-20 19:29 | User Profile
It's amazing to see goy after goy take the heat and the subsequent fall for some incident related to the deadly debacle in Iraq and the masses of unwashed asses still don't pick up on who's really running the United States of America. Have you heard ANYTHING negative in the mainstream press about Wolfowitz, Perle, Feith and their relationships to Israel??
2004-12-21 01:52 | User Profile
[QUOTE=MadScienceType]Then, you'll get to see Perle or Wolfie as the new, more aggressive SecDef! Maybe that was Rummy's fatal mistake. He balked or had misgivings when ordered to to implement the sort of policies in Iraq that will be necessary to prevent a total U.S. rout, such as carpet bombing rebel cities, "black bag" jobs on mosques and prominent opposition personalities, mass executions and Israel's favorite game, collective punishment (which is only bad when "Natzees" or "Ay-rabs" do it, natch.) [/QUOTE]It's not sharks in the water, its vultures circling over the carcass. Rummy is, true enough, being set up, but I don't think anyone would ever be stupid enough to put in a Perle or Wolfowitz as chief. That would be too blatant. Rummy is just being set up as the token goy front-man, who doubles as a fall boy, but not until he's served his useful purpose and stayed long enough to take the heat for everything going bad.
I thought the "no-signing letters" thing was pretty bad. But then you have to look at it in historical perspective. Lincoln hand wrote letters of condolences personally, as did Eisenhower. But I've got to wonder what happened since then, Korea, Vietnam and following. My guess is the change is across the board, part of the "new managerial" mentality in the armed forces