Rumsfeld Cries Foul on Obama Claim Troop Requests for Afghanistan Were Denied

[sabra]

Source: Fox News

Former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld on Wednesday lashed out at President Obama for claiming the Bush administration rebuffed commanders' repeated requests for more troops in Afghanistan.

In a rare break in his public silence since leaving the Pentagon, Rumsfeld rejected the claim as a "bald misstatement" and "disservice" that cannot go unanswered.

"Such a bald misstatement, at least as it pertains to the period I served as secretary of defense, deserves a response," Rumsfeld said in a written statement. "I am not aware of a single request of that nature between 2001 and 2006."

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White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs explained Wednesday that Obama was referring to requests that came in during 2008, and suggested Rumsfeld was on thin ice with his criticism.

"I will let Secretary Rumsfeld explain ... whether he thinks that the effort in Afghanistan was sufficiently resourced during his tenure as secretary of defense," he said.

Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/12/02/rumsfeld-rejects-obama-claim-troop-requests-denied-afghanistan/

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

1. Does he carry a portable podium to bang now a days when he's making his

jerkoff statements?

[CatWoman]

16. God, that's funny!

:rofl:

[xultar]

2. Ummm who the fuck got fired? Why would he even think his ass should be believed

WHAT THE FLYING FUCKITY FUCK FUCK!!!

[LakeSamish706]

3. lol... I like your post... n/t

[Botany]

4. Don Rummy also said:

on Iraq's weapons of mass destruction

"We know where they are. They're in the area around Tikrit and Baghdad and east, west, south and north somewhat."

on bin Laden being @ Toro Bora

..... He (rummy) and some others said the evidence was not conclusive about bin Laden's location.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/article6936645.ece

on the length of the war in Iraq.

* Feb. 7, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, to U.S. troops in Aviano, Italy: "It is unknowable how long that conflict will last. It could last six days, six weeks. I doubt six months."

http://www.usatoday.com/educate/war28-article.htm

Why the fuck would anybody buy one word out of that proven liar's mouth?

[wisteria]

5. Rumsfeld and Chaney are both trying to rewrite history.

I remember Zarazi request more assistance at several times and he was always ignored.

[bobthedrummer]

6. Donald Henry Rumsfeld is a war criminal and a traitor, a domestic enemy of our Constitution which is

US (along with many other criminals and traitors from the BUSH/CHENEY era).

K&R

[Wizard777]

7. Rumsfeld had a freaking form letter!

Dear (insert name here),

I am denying your request for additional troops. You already have more than enough troops.

Piss off,

Donald Rumsfeld
Secretary of Defense

He sent out that form letter on Iraq, Afghanistan and Katrina requests for additional troops. Lying Son Of a Bush!

:think:

Make him say it under oath! Make him say it under oath!

[pleah]

8. So that brought Rummy Rat out of hiding.

Well, so much for media coverage for about a week now. :eyes:

[rhett o rick]

9. Throw the bastard in prison. nt

[pleah]

13. +1

[Chulanowa]

10. When even Bush thinks you're doing such a shit job that you need to be sacked...

You should just keep your fucking trap shut from then on out.

[braunfels]

11. Obama asked for it

By "not looking backward" Obama allowed the likes of Rumsfeld and Cheney to shoot their lying, criminal mouths off and rewrite their own history. Not a single investigation into how Congress was duped into the Iraq war. Contrast that situation with what the repubs did to Clinton for eight long years and you get a picture of a party (dems) that are weak and scared.

[winyanstaz]

12. Rumsfeld needs to go to jail for his part in the tami flu fraud...

and his part in war crimes.

[rgbecker]

14. We don't know what Rummy doesn't know, but it seems like its a lot.

[high density]

15. Afghanistan was nothing more than a PR campaign for launching Iraq

They got us over there and then had no mission. It's outrageous.

[bdamomma]

17. oh god, they are crawling from under their rocks right now.

crap, another one who should be in prison.