little faith in Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld

* read josh:

"And yet, only last month the country was knocked off the rails into a dingbat debate about whether things were actually bad in Iraq or whether the media was just telling America things were going badly and hiding all the good news. We actually had that debate -- not more than two weeks ago. It's like the AIDS patient who desperately needs treatment but falls under the spell of some charlatan who gets him wondering whether AIDS actually really exists.

Only we're a whole country with no real excuse."

* "Gordon and Trainor’s extensive interviews with the Army and Marine generals and colonels who commanded the invasion show that they had almost as little faith in Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and his aides as their Iraqi counterparts had in Saddam and his sons. Indeed, the American officers featured in “Cobra II” are remarkably open about the war’s many errors of conception and execution." (link)

* insightrag: "Attorneys for former Vice President Chief of Staff Lewis “Scooter” Libby say one of three senior State Department officials was the source of a leak that exposed CIA agent Valerie Plame.
They say the officials are: Colin Powell, Richard Armitage and then-Undersecretary of State Marc Grossman."

* "Jeb Bush reelection commercial, circa 2002.
Unlike the xenophobes that dominate the Republican Party, Jeb understood the importance of our nation's immigrants. On the ad, a succession of Latin American flags wave -- Cuban, Puerto Rican, Mexican, Colombian, Dominican, Venezuelan, and NIcaraguan, before concluding with a flag of the state of Florida." (link)
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