Rumsfeld: U.S. Military Not Overextended

[Eugene]

Rumsfeld: U.S. Military Not Overextended

Wednesday January 25, 2006 7:03 PM

By LOLITA C. BALDOR

Associated Press Writer

WASHINGTON (AP) - Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld on Wednesday disputed reports suggesting
that the U.S. military is stretched thin and close to a snapping point from operations in Iraq
and Afghanistan, asserting "the force is not broken."

"This armed force is enormously capable," Rumsfeld told reporters at a Pentagon briefing.
"In addition, it's battle hardened. It's not a peacetime force that has been in barracks
or garrisons."

Rumsfeld spoke a day after The Associated Press reported that an unreleased study conducted
for the Pentagon said the Army is being overextended, thanks to the two wars, and may not be able
to retain and recruit enough troops to defeat the insurgency in Iraq.

Congressional Democrats released a report Wednesday that drew similar conclusions.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uslatest/story/0,,-5570126,00.html

Previous DU Thread: Study: Army Stretched to Breaking Point

I don't know what world Rummy lives in. It certainly isn't this one.

[bpilgrim]

1. Fuck You Dumbsfield!

Stars & Stripes letter: "My unit is tired."

My unit is tired. We have done our training, our missions. Leave us alone and let us go home.

Sgt. 1st Class Dwayne C. Thacker
Camp Victory, Kuwait

more...
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x237558

peace

[leftchick]

2. crack

he is definately on crack.

[sabra]

3. another one today:Former Pentagon chief sees damage to U.S. military

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=102&topic_id=2065092&mesg_id=2065092

[KG]

4. rumfeild is psychologically unable to tell the truth.

[henslee]

33. Maybe they should remake LIAR, LIAR in reverse.

[Arkansas Granny]

5. Rumsfeld lives in a dreamworld and believes his own spin.

He is beyond delusional, at this point.

[coalition_unwilling]

6. Rumsfailed can probably see the "light at the end of the tunnel" too

No text

[Demeter]

7. We Can Saw Up That Pinnocchio Nose For Firewood

Tell another one, Rummy!

[wordpix]

24. which is all we'll have once the oil runs out

[Jacobin]

8. He can't even admit that his own Pentagon's study is true

fuckwad

"I don't do quagmires" has lost it.

[jimshoes]

9. And Hell is rather

comfortable if you like dry heat. Fuck you rumputz. :grr:

[GDAEx2]

10. Of course

This is the guy who said we would be greeted as liberators!

[DrDebug]

23. Welcome to DU, GDAEx2

:toast:

[stepnw1f]

11. I Want to See This Guy Suffer for Many Years

The death and destruction this Chicken Hawk Bureaucrat is responsible for makes him a homicidal maniac.

Suffer behind bars, strapped to a chair, forced to watch video of his deeds.

[TheBaldyMan]

12. about as realistic as his 3-6 month war in Iraq

Rummy hasn't got a clue

[Vickers]

13. Translation: the military is fucked.

If someone as completely out of touch with the situation as Rummy says that, you can guarantee the exact opposite is the truth.

[fooj]

14. He's nothing but a bold, faced LIAR!

Peace.

[ixion]

15. they're not broken, that 'thousand yard stare' is really 'battle hardened'

so there is nothing to worry about. Everything is peachy. The economy has turned the corner and GOD has blessed the US with the leadership of George W. Bush, and we are the saviors of the world.

:sarcasm: :puke:

[grytpype]

16. Everyone in Washington knows he's nuts.

He's clinically insane.

[jseankil]

17. What's dangerous is that he really believes this.

He's clearly in a state of denial. At this point facts and the reality that is truth no longer matter, he has a mindset of what the situation should be and will use tunnle vision to keep this vision from being destroyed no matter the reality. The only way this is going to be broken is if he spends time on the ground with the troops in the theater rather than thousands of miles away. He's a failure, coward, and insane.

[mikeytherat]

18. Don't you people get it??? If our troops are NOT at war, they get soft!!!

"This armed force is enormously capable," Rumsfeld told reporters at a Pentagon briefing.
"In addition, it's battle hardened. It's not a peacetime force that has been in barracks
or garrisons."

Has Rummy ever publicly made statements about foreigners "contaminating our precious bodily fluids"? I'm pretty sure I've seen his work before...

mikey_the_rat

[The Sleeper]

19. A glorious victory will soon be yours...

fight on, my volksturm ! Repel the Bolshevicks from the heart of the Reich !

[Hobarticus]

20. Napolean: French army properly equipped for Russian winter n/t

[wordpix]

25. Hitler: keep on fighting with 14 year olds even though generals say STOP

[rodeodance]

21. his legacy means more to him than the troops/families. Idiot!

[rodeodance]

22. I hear Cheney bought a big house in Maryland--right next to Rummy--

they should pack up and retire NOW>

[wordpix]

26. retire now? Not until WE retire them to jail & return their profiteer $$$

to the Treasury

[cornermouse]

27. Who are you going to believe on this issue?

A career civilian or the Pentagon Chief with a lifetime of military experience behind him? It seems pretty obvious to me.

Case closed.

[high density]

28. Fox News broke from the middle of a commercial

to cover this fucker's press conference, and he hadn't even started speaking yet.

[AtomicKitten]

29. And monkeys might fly out of Rumsfailed's butt. NT

[libodem]

30. Were his lips moving?

then it was a lie.

[henslee]

31. Has this man ever showed a shred respect for anyone else's opinion?

To think he's been in chagrge for so long make me shudder. He has no respect for anything anyone else says. He's a whiner. His nasty press conferences performances are all bullshit, ducking questions, lyingh blatantly, ingorinng fair questions. stetching the truth, snarling rude-isms. Sigh.

[Amonester]

32. One might think that that failure of a human being wants to...

fire those who awarded the contract to him:

"Andrew Krepinevich, a retired Army officer who wrote the report under a Pentagon contract..."
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=102&topic_id=2063149&mesg_id=2063149

Wouldn't be the first time, wouldn't it?


:puke:
"We’ve also discovered through intelligence that Iraq has a growing fleet of manned and unmanned aerial vehicles that would be used to disperse chemical or biological weapons across broad areas. We’re concerned that Iraq is exploring ways of using the UAVs for missions targeting the United States." –Bush, Oct. 7, 2002

"We have sources that tell us that Saddam Hussein recently authorized Iraqi field commanders to use chemical weapons–the very weapons the dictator tells us he does not have." –Bush, Feb. 8, 2003

"Intelligence gathered by this and other governments leaves no doubt that the Iraq regime continues to possess and conceal some of the most lethal weapons ever devised." –Bush, March 17, 2003

"Well, there is no question that we have evidence and information that Iraq has weapons of mass destruction, biological and chemical particularly." –Fleischer, March 21, 2003

"There is no doubt that the regime of Saddam Hussein possesses weapons of mass destruction. As this operation continues, those weapons will be identified, found, along with the people who have produced them and who guard them." –Gen. Tommy Franks, March 22, 2003

"I have no doubt we’re going to find big stores of weapons of mass destruction." –Kenneth Adelman, Defense Policy Board, March 23, 2003

"We know where they are. They are in the area around Tikrit and Baghdad." –Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, March 30, 2003

"I never believed that we’d just tumble over weapons of mass destruction in that country." –Rumsfeld, May 4, 2003
:puke:

[psychopomp]

34. Rumseratu ignores the "Thin Green Line"

He really must not be making any friends these days at the Pentagon.

[CRK7376]

35. Rummy is a pinhead!!!

It's obvious that Pinhead Rummy hasn't talked with real soldiers in awhile. We are worn out and tired of deployments, and pray nothing happens anywhere else in the world.

[antonialee839]

36. They haven't replaced this idiot yet?