Monday, April 10, 2006

Here's Another Clue the President Has His Head Screwed On Sideways

Okay, you're the boss of a multi-trillion dollar operation and a number of Generals keep telling you that you have serious a problem with your man in charge. What do you do?
Q Okay, one other question on Secretary Rumsfeld, when you were talking before. This is now the second or third retired general to come out in recent weeks and say that he should step down. Does the President still have confidence in Secretary Rumsfeld? And if so, why, given all of these top military officials saying that he mishandled the war?

MR. McCLELLAN: The President thinks Secretary Rumsfeld is doing a great job, having overseen two fronts in the global war on terrorism. We have liberated 25 million people in Afghanistan and 25 million people in Iraq. The Secretary has also been leading a transformation of the military, to make sure that we're better prepared to meet the threats of the 21st century. And the President has great appreciation of the outstanding job he's doing.
Does the phrase, "you're doin' a heckuva job," hold any water anymore for these people (of course, the good people of NOLA hold concrete evidence it never did)?

1 comment:

Anonymous said...


It depends on what the definition of 'two' and 'people' is.

MR. McCLELLAN: The President thinks Secretary Rumsfeld is doing a great job, having overseen two fronts in the global war on terrorism. We have liberated 25 million people in Afghanistan and 25 million people in Iraq.

'Two:' Afghanistan.

'People:' Males.

The Bathist movement in the Middle East is and was secular. The probably outcome of the US-led invasion of Iraq will be to return women to their previous status as chattel, the moveable property of men, along with goats, cars, and donkeys. In Afghanistan, there's no indication that anything has changed outside Kabul.