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lwcon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon May-22-06 08:46 AM Original message |
Rumsfeld may be evil and incompetent, but... |
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boobooday (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon May-22-06 08:47 AM Response to Original message |
1. When was he cool? |
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lwcon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon May-22-06 09:18 AM Response to Reply #1 |
4. I don't think it's traitorous to admit he at least had some personality... |
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boobooday (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon May-22-06 09:23 AM Response to Reply #4 |
5. He has a personality, true |
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lwcon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon May-22-06 09:32 AM Response to Reply #5 |
7. I used to get the sense that he was saying what he honestly felt... |
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boobooday (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon May-22-06 10:27 AM Response to Reply #7 |
12. The impression I get is that he is an arrogant bastard |
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lwcon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon May-22-06 10:39 PM Response to Reply #12 |
20. I'd say he's guilty on two counts, innocent on the third |
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mtnsnake (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon May-22-06 08:55 AM Response to Original message |
2. When was he cool? When he served with the Nixon administration? |
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acmavm (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon May-22-06 09:56 AM Response to Reply #2 |
10. I know. The OP must be pulling our collective leg. |
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lwcon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon May-22-06 10:13 AM Response to Reply #10 |
11. Sort of... |
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acmavm (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon May-22-06 10:52 AM Response to Reply #11 |
13. Well, if your idea of 'feisty charms' consists of lying one's ass |
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lwcon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon May-22-06 01:44 PM Response to Reply #13 |
15. That pretty much sums it up, yes (n/t) |
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coalition_unwilling (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-23-06 07:56 PM Response to Reply #13 |
38. Even at the height of his popularity, when I would see\hear him |
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Kokonoe (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon May-22-06 09:04 AM Response to Original message |
3. I would call it like having swagger and guaranteeing to win |
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lwcon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon May-22-06 09:39 AM Response to Reply #3 |
8. Unfortunately for our soldiers... |
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ElsewheresDaughter (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon May-22-06 09:30 AM Response to Original message |
6. ppppppheeeeeeew |
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Submariner (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon May-22-06 09:53 AM Response to Original message |
9. Nothing! Like Bush, Rummy has always been immature |
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cliss (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon May-22-06 11:15 AM Response to Original message |
14. I think what you're referring to |
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lwcon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon May-22-06 07:53 PM Response to Reply #14 |
16. I never did see his poetry |
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cliss (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon May-22-06 09:14 PM Response to Reply #16 |
17. Hey, you got it! |
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Disturbed (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon May-22-06 09:24 PM Response to Reply #17 |
19. Rumsfailed doesn't care what people think. |
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Cocoa (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon May-22-06 09:18 PM Response to Original message |
18. I know they used to say Rummy was appealing |
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otohara (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon May-22-06 10:41 PM Response to Original message |
21. People Magazine |
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rman (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-23-06 04:47 AM Response to Original message |
22. He's neither cool nor incompetent |
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lwcon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-23-06 07:13 AM Response to Reply #22 |
24. His handling of the Iraq War isn't incompetent??? |
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rman (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-23-06 09:56 AM Response to Reply #24 |
31. He's incompetent only if you believe he has people's best interests |
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lwcon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-23-06 12:02 PM Response to Reply #31 |
32. The PNAC guys want to take over the Middle East... |
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rman (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-23-06 01:37 PM Response to Reply #32 |
33. There's no indication they are going to get out of there |
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lwcon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-23-06 02:01 PM Response to Reply #33 |
34. They're almost certainly going to have to ramp down the troop size... |
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rman (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-23-06 02:08 PM Response to Reply #34 |
35. maybe |
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lwcon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-23-06 02:28 PM Response to Reply #35 |
36. How is the situation not going to keep getting more withering? |
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ShortnFiery (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-23-06 07:15 AM Response to Reply #22 |
25. Rummy never was cool ... Mojo Nixon would croon ... |
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lwcon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-23-06 08:07 AM Response to Reply #25 |
28. To me, the old Rummy was an unusual "character" in a Stepford admin |
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ShortnFiery (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-23-06 08:42 AM Response to Reply #28 |
29. Rummy was NOT ever entertaining to me because I saw thru the mask. |
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lwcon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-23-06 09:30 AM Response to Reply #29 |
30. Seeing through him isn't too hard, is it...? |
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ShortnFiery (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-23-06 07:19 AM Response to Reply #22 |
26. Yes! If winning = Corporate Profits > People, every thing's ROSES. n/t |
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tirechewer (280 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-23-06 05:43 AM Response to Original message |
23. He was never that great.... |
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lwcon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-23-06 07:19 AM Response to Reply #23 |
27. I make no claims that he has any competence whatsoever... |
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tirechewer (280 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-23-06 07:52 PM Response to Reply #27 |
37. That's kind of.... |
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