Donald The Rat Rumsfeld Sneaks Back Into Iraq! Receives Flowers!

[DistressedAmerican]

These guys can't go anywhere in the world announced. Secrecy reigns. Security must be getting much better over there!

This is no liberator returning to meet the adoring masses!!!
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http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7469124/


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Rumsfeld makes surprise visit to Baghdad
Defense secretary warns against political ‘turbulence’

The Associated Press
Updated: 11:18 p.m. ET April 11, 2005

BAGHDAD - The leaders of Iraq’s emerging new government must not allow “turbulence or incompetence or corruption” to slow or foil progress toward building democracy and defeating the insurgency, Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld said.

Rumsfeld arrived at the Iraqi capital before sunrise Tuesday aboard an Air Force C-17 cargo plane for his second visit in three months. The visit reflects a desire to push the political and military momentum that he believes has been growing since the Jan. 30 elections for a national assembly.
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[FreedomAngel82]

1. I wonder what he's up to

Are they still trying to get Allwai to be the president? Funny how we haven't heard anything on who won that "race." :eyes:

[DistressedAmerican]

3. Hey They HAd An Election! What Do You People Want? A Government???

The whole thinkg was just a big media driven show. Sad really...

[BlackVelvetElvis]

2. This makes me wonder if they fear something?

Does the Bush admin. sense a corrupt system being born in Iraq?
Do they see cronyism occuring with the Kurds/Shiites?
If so, I doubt one speech by Rumsfeld will have any influence on stopping it.

[FreedomAngel82]

4. Could be

Maybe they're no longer in control of anything anymore and they're not getting the results they want. So what are they going to do? Hmm. Other wise why was this supposed to be a secret?

[BlackVelvetElvis]

5. You know they weren't too happy with the Shiia's winning.

Nation-building is "messy".

[DistressedAmerican]

6. There Is No Security. More than two years, More Than 1,500 US Dead,

Over 100,000 Iraqis wiped out.

All at the bargain basement price of hundreds of billions of dollars.

[The_Casual_Observer]

7. A transparent PR move, things aren't going well, regardless

of how they are trying to spin it, the place gets worse every day.

[DistressedAmerican]

8. Just Like This One Was...

GOBBLE, GOBBLE!!! Fucking Turkey!

[kevinmc]

9. Rumsfeld's Worried Halliburton Not Being Able Too Steal Enough

[DistressedAmerican]

10. Now There Is An Irrational Fear If I've Ever Heard It...

Some figures from:
http://www.halliburtonwatch.org/

[DistressedAmerican]

11. More From CNN. At Least They Note The Kidnapped American "Contractor"

http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/meast/04/11/iraq.main/index.html

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Rumsfeld in Iraq on unannounced visit
American contractor kidnapped in Baghdad

BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld arrived in Iraq early Tuesday on an unannounced visit, hours after a U.S. Embassy official said a U.S. citizen working for a contracting company was kidnapped from a construction site in Baghdad.

The embassy would not reveal the name of the abducted American or the name of the company. The contractor's next of kin has been notified.

Rumsfeld was to meet with officials of the new Iraqi government, U.S. commanders and American troops. He landed in Baghdad about 6 a.m. Tuesday (10 p.m. Monday ET) -- his arrival previously undisclosed for security reasons
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[DistressedAmerican]

12. Morning Kick!

[Swamp Rat]

13. cool pics man!

:hi: :D

[DistressedAmerican]

14. Rat Kickin'!

:kick:

[DistressedAmerican]

16. Another...

[mmonk]

15. He must have been ordered

or decided to put the lid on something we may not know about yet.

[DistressedAmerican]

17. Kick!

[DistressedAmerican]

18. Kick!