We sticking to Iraq mission, Rumsfeld says

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http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L05185271.htm

BAGHDAD, Sept 5 (Reuters) - Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld told Iraqis in an interview taped on Friday that attacks on "coalition" forces would not drive them out and that Saddam Hussein would never return to power.

At the United Nations, all 15 Security Council members held their first informal joint talks on a U.S.-drafted resolution aimed at getting more troops and money to Iraq from other countries.

It has run into opposition from Russia and France -- both veto-wielding council members -- as well as Germany. But diplomats at the United Nations said the three powers were closer to Washington's position than it appeared, although they would not approve the document without changes.

The White House said President George W. Bush, facing increasing criticism from political rivals over his handling of post-war Iraq, would discuss the Iraq issue and the war on terrorism in a television address on Sunday night.

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[grytpype]

1. Unnamed diplomats?

>But diplomats at the United Nations said the three powers were closer to Washington's position than it appeared,

I think that is highly unlikely. I don't see France and Germany sending their troops to Iraq under US command. Ever.

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7. Herr Shroeder doesn't feel comfortable

But Herr Shroeder has gastronomic problems over this matter.

Chancellor Gerhard Schröder has said a call from his Green Party coalition allies for German troops to join any United Nations force in Iraq made him "want to puke".

http://www.rense.com/general41/oeo.htm
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[Rollins]

2. "We sticking to Iraq mission, it has just changed a lot"

My sentance. Those things in Iraq are happening that some on the left said were going to happen such as the guerilla warfare and civil war. Rummy and the Bush members are just spinning the facts telling us to not trust our eyes, they are still in control and everything's rosey.

They can only "spin" the truth so long then the Piper comes calling. What we are seeing right now via foreign media may in fact be the Piper knocking on Bushes door.

Lets hope so

[BeFree]

3. "We sticking to Iraq mission, Rumsfeld says"

That's because no one else wants anything to do with it, ya jerk. It's was yours and dimbulbs and dickheads plan and ya'lls alone. It's gonna ride you down too. It's stuck to you like tar and feathers.

Well, at least we know what the administration is gonna be doing all weekend....

all w's horses
and all w's men
are gonna be working,
propping up AWOL, again.

[NewYorkerfromMass]

4. Here comes the draft...

I can almost hear W uttering the D word now....

[Rollins]

5. I hope they do try the draft

Nothing would wake the people up faster than the usurper trying to draft for his oil war and an unwilling conscript has all kinds of questions.

[NewYorkerfromMass]

6. it'd probably be prohibitively expensive

when I think about it, throwing more man power into Iraq would bankrupt us even faster. And we're supposed to be fighting a multi-front war. I take back that notion. It would be political suicide.

[DisgustipatedinCA]

9. It won't be a draft, so stop saying that

It's going to be a jobs program. It will help get our economy rolling again while smoking out the evildoers and employing the poor.



(Do I really have to add the /sarcasm thing here?)

[Minstrel Boy]

8. from riverbend's Baghdad blog:

Bad, Bad, Bad Day...
Bad #1: Mosque shooting.
Bad #2: No water.
Bad #3: Rumsfeld.

...


To make matters worse, Rumsfeld is in Iraq. It’s awful to see him strutting all over the place. I hate the hard, smug look that seems plastered on his face… some people just have cruel features. The reaction to seeing him on tv differs from the reaction to seeing Bremer or one of the puppets. The latter are greeted with jeers and scorn. Seeing Rumsfeld is something else - there’s resentment and disgust. It feels like he’s here to add insult to injury - you know, just in case anyone forgets we’re an occupied country.

And now he’s going to go back to America and give a speech about how he doesn’t know what anyone is talking about when they say ‘chaos’ (*he* was safe in the middle of all his bodyguards)… how electricity and water are functioning (after all, his air-conditioner was working *fine*)… how the people are gloriously happy and traffic is frequently at a stand-still because the Iraqis are dancing in the streets… how the ‘armed forces’ are cheerful and *grateful* to be on this heroic, historical mission… how kids wave at him, troops cheer him, dogs wag their tails in welcome and doves hover above his head…

To hell with him.

And no. I'm not whining - I'm ranting. You can't see me right now, but I'm shaking my fist at the computer screen, shaking my fist at the television, and heaping colorful, bilingual insults on Rumsfeld's head (hope the doves crap on him)... I'm angry.

http://riverbendblog.blogspot.com/

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10. "And the damn fool says push on"

Rumsfeld is certifiable. He's criminally insane.