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 From: gamma@nyc.rr.com 
  
 Motown Man wrote: 
 > 
 > The Liberal democRATs Plan to Lose the War 
 > 
 > By The Beautiful & Brilliant Ann Coulter 
 > September 11, 2003 
 > 
 > (Attn. LIBERALS, Insert your usual hateful, mean-spirited, bigoted personal 
 > attacks HERE if unable to refute a single thing in this article.) 
  
 WH HAVE RUMMSEY SAYING HE'S CLUELESS!!! 
  
 By THOMAS M. DeFRANK and RICHARD SISK DAILY NEWS WASHINGTON BUREAU 
 Thursday, 
 October 23rd, 2003 
  
 WASHINGTON - Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld angered the White House 
 yesterday with a leaked memo questioning whether the U.S. was winning 
 the 
 war on terror. 
  
 "This has put Rummy in a bad spot," one Bush administration source said. 
  
 "Before this he had personality and policy problems," the source said. 
 "Now 
 he has a credibility problem because he's acknowledged that they've all 
 been 
 putting on a happy face about Iraq." 
  
 It was the latest blow for the beleaguered defense secretary. Earlier 
 this 
 month, the White House switched responsibility for rebuilding Iraq from 
 Rumsfeld to national security adviser Condoleezza Rice. 
  
 "The President isn't happy," but he won't fire Rumsfeld, a Bush official 
 said. 
  
 Officials said sacking Rumsfeld would give the appearance of admitting 
 that 
 Iraq is as big a mess as his critics contend. 
  
 White House press secretary Scott McClellan, traveling with Bush in 
 Australia, quickly gave a vote of confidence to Rumsfeld. "That's 
 exactly 
 what a strong and capable secretary of defense like Secretary Rumsfeld 
 should be doing," said McClellan. 
  
 The Oct. 16 Rumsfeld memo to top Pentagon aides, first disclosed by USA 
 Today, warned of a "long, hard slog" in Iraq and Afghanistan, and openly 
 questioned whether the military can win the global terror war. 
  
 He complained about "mixed results" on Al Qaeda and fretted that 
 terrorism 
 was winning recruits faster than the U.S. could kill or capture them. 
  
 Rumsfeld also wondered if the Pentagon was capable of beating the 
 terrorists 
 and pressed aides to consider whether "to fashion a new institution" to 
 take 
 over the terror war from the military. 
  
 Bush officials told the Daily News the memo has further diminished 
 Rumsfeld's standing at the White House by embarrassing Bush when his 
 Iraq 
 policy is under constant attack by Democrats and even some Republicans. 
  
 The News reported on Oct. 10 that Bush is unhappy with Rumsfeld's 
 handling 
 of postwar operations in Iraq and that he will be out of a job if Bush 
 is 
 reelected next November. 
  
 While the source of the leak was a prime topic in Washington political 
 corridors yesterday, there was a broad consensus that the leaker was no 
 friend of the embattled defense secretary. 
  
 "Rumsfeld has stepped on many toes at the Pentagon," a senior 
 congressional 
 source said, "and this was the revenge of the toes." 
  
 Rumsfeld and his top aides defended the memo as the typical internal 
 work 
 product of a hard-charging executive posing tough questions and pressing 
 his 
 staff to think aggressively and make tough choices. 
  
 Rumsfeld said he used the memo to urge his aides to "lift our eyes up 
 and 
 look out over the horizon. I do it periodically." 
  
 But the pessimistic tone of the memo contrasted with the drumbeat of 
 positive statements from the White House and Pentagon on steady progress 
 in 
 Iraq that allegedly has been overlooked by the body-count reporting of 
 the 
 major media. 
  
 Sen. Joseph Biden (D-Del.), the top Democrat on the Foreign Relations 
 Committee, said the memo "is a little different than the sort of 
 self-assurance that was communicated to us in Congress." 
  
  
  
 -- 
  
  
 "We should not march into Baghdad. To occupy Iraq would 
 instantly shatter our coalition, turning the whole Arab 
 world against us and make a broken tyrant into a latter- 
 day Arab hero. Assigning young soldiers to a fruitless 
 hunt for a securely entrenched dictator and condemning 
 them to fight in what would be an unwinable urban guerilla 
 war, it could only plunge that part of the world into ever 
 greater instability." 
 -George H. W. Bush in his 1998 book  "A World Transformed" 
  
 "There should be limits to freedom."--George W. Bush 
  
 "I don't think our troops ought to be used for what's called nation 
 building."--George W. Bush, 10/11/2000 
  
  
 http://minime.de/bush/ 
 http://www.911pi.com/ 
 http://www.warprofiteers.com/ 
 http://www.bringthemhomenow.org/ 
 http://www.mindprod.com/bush911.html 
  
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