Rumsfeld Is A ChickenHawk....WHY!!!!

[rsmith6621]

Anyone who would go to South America and say...."I will not Resign" is a CHICKENHAWK....Does he not have the guts to make that statement here is his own country??????....remember the DIXIE CHICK fiasco????...same game in my opinion...

Why does RUMMY hate the USA so much...

[90-percent]

1. chicken-hawk????

By my limited understanding of the term, Donnie doesn't fully qualify for full "chicken-hawk" status.

He served in some capacity in the Korean War of the early 50's, so, like all that have served their country in the military, he deserves some recognition for that.

That makes him some what less hypocritical than Dick Cheney, who "had other priorities" besides serving his country when it asked him.

(For that matter, I did too. They abolished the draft when I turned 18, so I was not required to serve. At the time, I don't recall being patriotic enough to do so. Thank God. I am so not a military kind of guy. I am horrified at the prospect of killing or being killed, no matter what's at stake!)

-85% jimmy

[The Deacon]

2. Rumsfeld Was A Naval Officer BEFORE The Korean War

Got out before the North crossed the 38th Parallel.

[BrotherBuzz]

4. ?

[BrotherBuzz]

3. Rummy entered the service after the Korean cease-fire

He served in the United States Navy from 1954 to 1957 as a Naval aviator and flight instructor.

[The Deacon]

6. You're Right

Got my dates mixed up with someone else.

[Jeffersons Ghost]

5. Why Our Military Despises Donald Rumsfeld...

Why Our Military Despises Donald Rumsfeld
by Ralph Nader

Published on Saturday, December 31, 2005 by CommonDreams.org
by Ralph Nader
http://www.commondreams.org/views05/1231-05.htm

Civilian control over the military is a long established democratic tradition in our country. It was the military that was believed by our founding fathers to be susceptible to plunging our country into foreign adventure. Presently, however, the boondoggles, crimes and recklessness of draft-dodging George W. Bush, Dick Cheney and former Air Force pilot, Donald Rumsfeld, together with their draft-dodging neo-con associates, have turned this expectation upside down. The civilians are the war-mongers.

Probably the least told story of the Iraq war-quagmire is the extent to which the Pentagon military, especially the U.S. Army brass, disagrees with and despises these civilian superiors. Donald Rumsfeld, one of the most disliked of the Secretaries of Defense, has spent much energy making sure that high level dissent in the military is muzzled and overlayered by his loyalists.

Just last week Rumsfeld demoted three military service chiefs in the Pentagon hierarchy and replaced them with three loyalists who previously worked for his buddy Dick Cheney.

Right from the beginning the U.S. Army brass opposed the invasion of Iraq for both military and strategic reasons. They believed such an attack would absorb massive human and material resources that would divert from the chase after the 9/11 terrorists and the resolution of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. They disagreed with the paucity of soldiers that Bush/Cheney and Rumsfeld were to send there. They were appalled by the lack of post-war planning directives by the Administration...