John Kerry on Rumsfeld’s Attacks on the “Mischievous” Media

[kerrygoddess]

John Kerry on Rumsfeld’s Attacks on the “Mischievous” Media
October 26th, 2006 @ 11:14 pm

Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld told detractors today that “to pull back as U.S. and Iraqi officials grapple with the uncertainties of laying out Iraq’s course.”

“You ought to just back off, take a look at it, relax, understand that it’s complicated, it’s difficult,” Rumsfeld said, appearing unusually combative as he sparred with reporters at the Pentagon. “Honorable people are working on these things together,” he said, adding emphatically that “no daylight” exists between the U.S. and Iraqi sides.

John Kerry shot back at Rumsfeld’s attack on the media and his critics…

“Today a Secretary of Defense, who should have been fired a long time ago, lost even greater touch with reality.

Secretary Rumsfeld blames the “mischievous” media for trying to find “a little daylight” between Prime Minister Maliki and the Administration. There’s nothing mischievous about acknowledging that the Iraqis defiantly rejected the Administration’s toothless benchmarks. The problem is not the meaning of the word “it.” The problem is the state of denial in which this incompetent Secretary of Defense continues to operate.

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[wisteria]

1. Good statement fro, Kerry.

Rummie can't take the heat and you know how it goes, "if you can't take the heat then get out of the kitchen".