Rumsfeld pledges help for Iraq security

[Barrett808]

Rumsfeld pledges help for Iraq security
By PAULINE JELINEK, Associated Press Writer

WASHINGTON - The United States will increase its support for the Iraqi security forces, Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld said Thursday, saying it continues to be "enormously challenging" to quell the violence there.

Rumsfeld said he has done a new assessment of the progress of the Iraqi forces, and he was not satisfied.

"We intend to increase their budgets," he said, as well as their capabilities, and officials will work to help make the improvements more quickly. He did not cite any figures, however.

Rumsfeld also said people ought to "just back off" and stop demanding specific benchmarks or timelines for progress in Iraq, saying it is just too difficult to predict when the Iraqis can take control of their country.

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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061026/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/rumsfeld

[DoYouEverWonder]

1. Just turn the lights and water back on

Give the Iraqis back their oil and get the f out of their country.

[whistle]

2. There goes another $20 billion into corporate fascist pockets

[pwb]

3. what ? hire more blackwater warmongers???

Americas new soldiers of fortune, that rumsfeld pays more than or soldiers???

[angstlessk]

4. "increase THEIR budgets" means spending OUR money!

You know, all these GREAT 'NEW' IDEAS they suddenly have just befor the elections...why couldn't they have come up with these GREAT 'NEW' IDEAS two years ago?

[rodeodance]

5. "just back off" says Rummy--NOPE to you!

[ECH1969]

6. Rumsfeld Pledges Increased Support For Iraq

WASHINGTON The United States will increase its support for the Iraqi security forces, Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld said Thursday, saying it continues to be “enormously challenging” to quell the violence there.

Rumsfeld said he has done a new assessment of the progress of the Iraqi forces, and he was not satisfied.

“We intend to increase their budgets,” he said, as well as their capabilities, and officials will work to help make the improvements more quickly. He did not cite any figures, however.

Rumsfeld is coming under increasing fire for his stewardship of the increasingly unpopular war in Iraq, which has claimed the lives of more than 2,800 U.S. troops and has become the top election issue—one that could wrest control of Congress from the Republicans.

http://cbs11tv.com/topstories/topstories_story_299140732.html

[cliss]

7. Message from CLiss to Don Rumsfailed:

"While your generosity is appreciated, it's time to take a look at the pocketbook you've been so generous with.

It's empty.

We're broke.

Every dime that you've spent has been borrowed from the future. All of it, borrowed from our creditors.

You intend to increase their budgets? That's not the answer. "

[IndyBob]

8. Borrow and spend Repugs at it again

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

9. 3 1/2 years.

I'm impressed.

[teryang]

10. this is a joke, right?

what has he been doing up to this time?