On Thu, 17 Feb 2005 16:14:53 -0600, Gary Denton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 17 Feb 2005 13:15:13 -0800 (PST), Damon Agretto > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Still, unlike Bush I can see a few good things he > > > has done in the > > > military so he is not an unmitigated disaster. > > > > Just curious what good things? > > The Pentagon is a giant sluggish bureaucracy always fighting the last > war, or the one before that. Rumsfeld was corect in wanting it to do > a modern "tranformation." Of course, from the Frontline interviews it > is not clear if his priority was to get lighter, faster, more mobile > forces, what is needed. Some on the program argue he wanted high-tech > contracts to GOP contributors (my take) at the cost of reducing the > number of troops further. His strong support of missile defense is > not an example of transformation. His support of Stryker brigades > is.an example of transformation as is his support of special forces. > I will point out those are Clinton's Army elements. > > It is also argued he sacked the Chairman of the JCS who was leading > the transformation and doing a pretty good job for typical Bush&Co. > reasons - not loyal enough, too much wants to do what he thinks his > job is and not what the Rove/Cheney "team" wants. > > http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/pentagon/themes/transformation.html > > You have to realize that saying he wasn't an unmitigated disaster and > compares favorably to Bush is damning with my lowest possible praise. > Would a rock have been better as SoD? If you consider a rock as not > having Rumsfeld in office or having nobody in that position - yes, a > rock would have been much better. > > -- > Gary Denton > Easter Lemming Liberal News Digest > > BTW -- looks like the gay prostitute fake journalist is just too > juicy for S-CLM to stay away from, just taking them an awful long time > to notice there is a heck of a story there. It now turns out he was > invited to White House briefings before he worked for even a fake news > organization. Gives new meaning to the phrase "who to you to sleep > with to get hired around here."
^^^^you know the phrase I meant. Bonus quotes for today. "I am not going to give you a number for it because it's not my business to do *intelligent* work." -- Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, quoted by the Washington Post, presumably meant "intelligence work" but also noted it was "beyond my pay grade" to answer some questions from the House Armed Services Committee. and "We don't do politics in the Department of Homeland Security." -- Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge, during the election season. Now, the AP uncovers evidence that Ridge "met privately with Republican pollsters twice in a 10-day span last spring as he embarked on more than a dozen trips to presidential battleground states." Gary D _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
