Great line from another Rumsfeld "misunderstood" statement

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With Rumsfeld back in the news regarding his Al Queda / Iraq statement, and with B*sh saying 22 times in the debate that Iraq or terror war is "hard work", it seems timely to unearth a portion of the Rumsfeld leaked memo from many months ago:

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Today, we lack metrics to know if we are winning or losing the global war on terror. Are we capturing, killing or deterring and dissuading more terrorists every day than the madrassas and the radical clerics are recruiting, training and deploying against us? Does the U.S. need to fashion a broad, integrated plan to stop the next generation of terrorists?

The U.S. is putting relatively little effort into a long-range plan, but we are putting a great deal of effort into trying to stop terrorists. The cost-benefit ratio is against us! Our cost is billions against the terrorists' costs of millions. Do we need a new organization? How do we stop those who are financing the radical madrassa schools? Is our current situation such that "THE HARDER WE WORK, THE BEHINDER WE GET"?

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The caps are added.

The questions are still pertinent and some have been answered now in an unfavorable way.

These lines are debate gold for Kerry or Edwards. In debate or TV ad the Kerry campaign, in response to B*sh's insistence that working hard somehow means we're on the right track, ought to pull up Rumsfeld's comment about getting BEHINDER with every step.

[exJW]

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