OT 'Bye Don...don't go away mad

Finally, good-bye Rummy. Phew! :-)

Cathy

Yes, it was time. I hope he has some quality years to enjoy his home and family. Thankyou Donald Rumsfeld for your service to America.

GWB needed another scapegoat. This should give him several months of blaming everything on Donald Rum-dummy before the masses notice that nothing is changing.

Ah yes, the standard excuse given by anyone asked to resign. :)

Yeah, thanks for murdering all those american soldiers.

Certainly is a good start, now that you mention it.

Now, in keeping with the traditions of this news group, lets start speculating on what George W. has planned for that hacienda in Paraguay that he bought not long ago. I checked the extradition treaty we have with Paraguay, Art. IV does provide for political asylum status. ;-)

are all the various and sundry that agreed with him (Clintons, Kerry, Kennedy et.al.) going to seek asylum with Bush? I seem to remember the 6 month "expedition" to Kosovo that is still going on?

ron

we still have troops in kosovo? If so, lets bring them home.

Nah, Clinton made the commitment and can't leave them to fend for theirselves. We got NATO there now though. Ron

I thought you liked having lotsa troops overseas, because then you knew you were safe at home...?

Let's bring ALL the troops home, from Iraq, Korea, Germany, Afghanistan, and a hundred other places around the world. With Bush's empty threats against the Axis of Evil, we may need them on our shores. Slightly off-topic but quite enlightening.... I have a doctor who's a vascular surgeon at my HMO, and recently I was assigned another doctor in the department. I assumed my doc went into private practice, but when I went to the clinic the other day, I found that my doctor had been activated in the reserves and had gone to Iraq, to perform surgeries on casualties, and that he reported back to his department that the pool of doctors was so low that they were using pediatricians (basically physicians and NOT surgeons) to do amputations. Would you like to have a limb removed by a pediatrician? Our supply of military personnel is getting to the critical level, it appears.

It sounds as if the 'service' that Rumsfeld did for our troops, (trying to go on the cheap, supplying little or no body armor and unarmored Humvees, etc etc) is somewhat similar to the 'service' that bulls do for cows. He should have been replaced years ago.

Well Mack I'll wave the flag a bit I did spend over 2 years on Okinawa in the Army working for NSA so I have been there even though it was peace time.

As for doctors, more than a few of them get their education and resulting comittment to the reserves by getting most of their education at taxpayers expense. I realize you think reserve service is dishonorable but it is a proud tradition in this country (say Militia).

Nope, I don't think I'd want a pediatrician to remove my leg but I hear of EMT's, firemen and police officers having to perform emergency amputations with pocket knives on folks trapped in wrecks.

As a point of interest there are around 30 or so killed in auto wrecks daily in California, some 400 murdered just in Oakland each year. Yet we are closing emergency rooms?

Oh yes, I do feel safe. I only keep most of the guns in the gun safe. From time to time there just might be one there to protect us if need be.

Ron

I realize you think reserve service is dishonorable but it is a

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ I can't recall having said that. You see, I was a member of an active reserve unit for seven years, after two years of active duty...in Korea.

But do you think it's a wise choice for the Armed Services of the United States of America to send pediatricians overseas....folks who normally prescribe teaspoons of drugs to colicky babies, and are almost never surgeons....to act as surgeons doing amputations ...not on an emergency basis, but every day?

What's your point?

And what's your point about this? and why pray, don't you keep ALL your guns in the gun safe? and who are you protecting us from with them?

The way you keep skipping from subject to subject like a jumping bean, I suspect you've been nipping at the cooking sherry.

You are an expert on everything political. You should know. If not, you know how to find out because as your posts make clear, you are constantly reading grownup news sources.

It appears President Nookular may have listened to his daddy. Gates is a rational person, something that's badly needed in this administration. Hopefully, he can successfully arm wrestle with the lunatics (Cheney, Wolfowitz, Ghorbanifar).

whats a matter get up on wong side of bed today joey? You should be happy, cheerful.

Traitors should be put to death. But, you're still breathing. Otherwise, it's a lovely day.

Is he actually any better? He looks like just another recycled leftover from Papa Bush's regime.

Read his book, "From The Shadows". He seems reasonably level-headed. And, anyone of value is going to be recycled from SOMEWHERE in previous government service, although I think a top-notch private sector manager could do well in the job. It'll never happen, unfortunately.

Perhaps they thought he was a podiatrist? ;)

mike hunt

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