CNN tells it like it is!

[ProgressiveFool]

WASHINGTON (AP) -- On his first trip abroad since signing up for a second hitch as secretary of defense, Donald H. Rumsfeld saw vivid evidence of progress as well as problems in the global war on terrorism.

In his public remarks during a voyage that circumvented the globe, he displayed both the passion and the blunt-spokeness that have made him a favorite of troops and a popular target of critics.



I suppose they meant "circumnavigate", but it's much more honest this way.

http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/12/10/rumsfeld.abroad.ap/index.html

[MichiganVote]

1. Rumsfeld is using the brain he has got, not the one he would want

[RafterMan]

2. LOL!

Circumvented the globe.

That is a great catch. Thank you.

[TrustingDog]

8. more like circumsized the globe with a 40 foot clipper. like magellan

[janx]

3. This is hilarious!

Not very surprising though.

[ibegurpard]

4. snarf!

nice catch!

[Up2Late]

5. What!!? Is the AP doing?

Is the AP hiring beginner "English as a second Language" students to write their wire stories now?
:wtf:
circumvented the globe?

Blunt-spokenness? That's not a word in my dictionary, even without the Hyphen:tinfoilhat:

[tsuki]

17. Circumvent the globe. Wasn't that one of the Refundican

platforms?

[Up2Late]

18. LOL

Yes! Exactly :yourock:

[Emboldened Chimp]

6. No, the word is correct, though it's not a good one to use...

One meaning is to make a circuit around.

[brindis_desala]

16. actually I thought it was a pretty clever pun

a little dig to say he was going around the world and avoiding it all at the same time ....even as the blowhard "vented".

[Up2Late]

19. Hummmm, you may be right

To Quote one of my favorite movies, This is Spinal Tap:

"...their's a very fine line between clever, and stupid":hippie:

[Pithy Cherub]

7. LOL! cnn & rummy deserve each other.

Neither can live up to the other's curb level standards. :)

[TrustingDog]

9. the not very artful dodger?

minor detail. He can do whatever shock and ahhhhh he likes

[HysteryDiagnosis]

10. I went to work with the skills I had... not the ones they wanted... I was

fired....

I went to the store with the money I had... didn't get what I needed...

I managed a war pretty much on the cheap.... now look at the mess I created....

By now you would pretty much think.... the unrest would have abated...

The onsies and twosies are really quite bad... now that they are 10's of thousands....

My unknowns are now knowns.. and that is I didn't know the known people in Iraq would knowingly detest a known occupation....

So if you are sad that the army you have, is not the army you need...

Try and be glad like a proper lad, for all the insurgents you freed...

Remember.... Nixon almost fired Rummy for being too much of a "Dove".

[Up2Late]

12. who is your Avatar (picture) of?

Every time I see that picture I practically say out loud, WOW! :wow:

[HysteryDiagnosis]

15. She is a writer, poet, architect... her first book The God of Small

Things won a Booker Prize, her second book, Power Politics, concerns the dams in India that have displaced over 50,000,000 poor people in the last 50 years or so along with Enron's forays into India's electrical infrastructure along with the resultant energy nightmare they lived through... her name is Arundhati Roy... I look up to her spirit without hesitation, limitation, or fear. She has been imprisoned on several occasions for writing on behalf of her people... as it should be in a world such as this. She is free... she is timeless.

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0896086682.01._PIdp-schmooS,TopRight,7,-26_PE25_SCMZZZZZZZ_.jpg
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0896086682/qid=1102770781/sr=2-1/ref=pd_ka_b_2_1/104-2713864-0948747
Product Description:
Arundhati Roy, the author of The God of Small Things, explores the politics of writing and the price of "development" driven by profit. Roy challenges the idea that only "experts" can speak out on such urgent matters as nuclear war, the human costs of the privatization of India's power supply by U.S.-based energy companies, and the construction of monumental dams in India. Includes new essays written since September 11






Arundhati Roy: Great Spirit

[Sugarbleus]

14. LOL...good piece n/t

[killbotfactory]

11. His incompetence has made him a target of critics

stupid douchebags

[w4rma]

13. It sure didn't sounds like he is a "favorite" of the troops when they are

all teed off at him for under-armoring their humvess and vests.