Rummy: "Ninety-nine percent of the American troops...highly professional"

[sabra]

http://www.marinetimes.com/story.php?f=1-292925-1946265.php

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Among the most recent cases is the alleged rape and slaying of a young Iraqi woman and the killing of her family members in Mahmoudiyah.

“Ninety-nine percent of the American troops and the coalition forces are performing in a highly professional and a courageous and skillful way,” he said. “When allegations like this come up like this obviously it hurts the 99.9 percent of the troops as much as anybody.”

[Marr]

1. Wish I could say the same for the civilians running the show.

[11 Bravo]

2. 11 Bravo: 0% of the current SecDefs have a fucking clue.

[redqueen]

3. IT HURTS THE TROOPS AS MUCH AS ANYBODY?

IS HE ON CRACK?

:nuke:

[ticapnews]

4. This is higher than the 90% O'Liely said were professionals.

So I guess we're making progress...

[AndyA]

5. 99 Percent of the GOP is crooked - lying and stealing from Americans.

99 Percent of what comes out of Rummy's mouth is bullshit.

[TomInTib]

6. The accounting department must be really busy.

Yesterday he was talking about how, through improved 'accounting', that they know for a fact that violent incidents are on the wane.

Now they have the good/bad soldier ratio figured down to the thousandths.

I was wondering where all those Arthur Anderson people had gone.

[bdamomma]

7. and if these recruiters are easing up the requirements to serve

there will more like Green who committed this crime, standards to get in are lowered, allowing more skin heads in, we will our own death squads. just makes you shake your head, and as for Rumsfeld he is way past his time to step down, but he can't step down until Cheney and him take their revenge on everyone.

[kenny blankenship]

8. 99.9% are professional, and that leaves a final .1%

who have internalized the method behind "the mission"--thought it through and taken it to heart--and who, accordingly, have made our country's rape and pillage and murder of Iraq their own highly personal and very literal destiny.

Most soldiers just follow orders and carry them out, but this one tenth of one percent show that they have understood the spirit that motivates their orders, and can direct themselves to carry out the objective anywhere, anytime to the utmost measure of devotion.

[Virginia Dare]

9. 99% of what Rummy says is crapola....n/t

[Bake]

10. The military people I know are horrified at the atrocity

I have to believe that these rapists/murderers are the exception rather than the rule as far as American troops are concerned. Otherwise, I'd have to shoot myself in the head.

Bake

[Hubert Flottz]

11. With The dope crazed Rush Lameball on AFN preaching hate to

the troops 24/7, you have to expect things like the case Rumbo is trying to put lipstick on!

[warrens]

12. I doubt it

I doubt even the gung-ho would agree with that. There are LOTS of losers in the armed forces, of all sorts. Gang members, skinheads, druggies, criminals and so on. They make up a lot more than one percent.

[Bill McBlueState]

13. what's an order of magnitude among friends?

Which is it, Rummy? Are 1 in 100 soldiers not "highly professional," "courageous," and "skillful"? Or is it 1 in 1000? Either way, it amounts to quite a few.