Rummy Baffled by Propaganda

[Nbadan]

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Completely baffled!


FALLON NAVAL AIR STATION, Nev. -Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld said Monday he is deeply troubled by the success of terrorist groups in "manipulating the media" to influence Westerners.

"That's the thing that keeps me up at night," he said during a question-and-answer session with about 200 naval aviators and other Navy personnel at this flight training base for Navy and Marine pilots.

... "What bothers me the most is how clever the enemy is," he continued, launching an extensive broadside at Islamic extremist groups which he said are trying to undermine Western support for the war on terror.

"They are actively manipulating the media in this country" by, for example, falsely blaming U.S. troops for civilian deaths in Iraq and Afghanistan, he said.

DFW (http://www.dfw.com/mld/dfw/news/breaking_news/15383140.htm)


:lmao

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The guy is senile.

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[RandomGuy]

(sighs heavily)

Why does it not surprise me that a member of this administration can't figure out why we are losing on one of the vital battlefields of the "war" on terror?

Away from criticism, here is a solution:

Improve the lot of the average muslim in concrete ways. If we spent 1/4 the money that we do on our military on projects like roads, sewers, water treatment, and electrification in the developing world, it would be harder to convince moderates that we are ogres.

But that would take a sophistacated worldview, and a better plan than "yeee-hah!".
Honestly there have been some encouraging signs from the current administration in terms of finally getting a basic grasp on geopolitics, but it is too little, too late.

Is it 2009 yet?

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Rumsfeld Lashes Out at Bush's Critics

By ROBERT BURNS
The Associated Press
Tuesday, August 29, 2006; 12:25 PM

SALT LAKE CITY, Utah -- Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld on Tuesday accused critics of the Bush administration's Iraq and counterterrorism policies of trying to appease "a new type of fascism."

In unusually explicit terms, Rumsfeld portrayed the administration's critics as suffering from "moral or intellectual confusion" about what threatens the nation's security and accused them of lacking the courage to fight back.

( As part of the buildup to the Nov elections, and as Iraq continues to go down the toilet, Rove/RNC has the WHIQ out trying STILL to confound the war on terr with their phony war in Iraq. But a majority of the US now views the war in Iraq as a bullshit distraction from the real war on terr )

In remarks to several thousand veterans at the American Legion's national convention, Rumsfeld recited what he called the lessons of history, including the failed efforts to appease the Adolf Hitler regime in the 1930s.

( right, being against the Iraq war is being FOR Hitler!)

"I recount this history because once again we face similar challenges in efforts to confront the rising threat of a new type of fascism," he said.

Rumsfeld spoke to the American Legion as part of a coordinated White House strategy, in advance of the fifth anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, to take the offensive against administration critics at a time of doubt about the future of Iraq and growing calls to withdraw U.S. troops.

( will dickhead emerge from his bunker and blame WTC on Saddam? )

Rumsfeld recalled a string of recent terrorist attacks, from 9/11 to bombings in Bali, London and Madrid, and said it should be obvious to anyone that terrorists must be confronted, not appeased.

( well duh. )

"But some seem not to have learned history's lessons," he said, adding that part of the problem is that the American news media have tended to emphasize the negative rather than the positive.

( "some" need to admit they they have totally fucked up their phony war in Iraq while allowing the Taleban and Afghanistan to slip away )

He said, for example, that more media attention was given to U.S. soldiers' abuse of Iraqi prisoners at Abu Ghraib than to the fact that Sgt. 1st Class Paul Ray Smith received the Medal of Honor.

"Can we truly afford to believe somehow, some way, vicious extremists can be appeased?" he asked.

( who is appeasing the extremists, you asshole? Most people around the entire world were all for the attack on Afghanistan and the war on terror, then you fuckoffs went a started phony war in Iraq )

"Those who know the truth need to speak out against these kinds of myths and lies and distortions being told about our troops and about our country," he added.

( a WHIG member talking about the truth? The truth is a major target of the WHIG's campaign )

Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice was addressing the American Legion convention later Tuesday, and President Bush is scheduled to speak here later in the week. On Monday, Vice President Dick Cheney and Rumsfeld made separate addresses to the national convention of the Veterans of Foreign Wars in Reno, Nev.

Rumsfeld made similar arguments in Reno about doubters of the administration's approach to fighting terrorism, saying too many in this country want to "blame America first" and ignore the enemy.

( a majority in this country blame WHIG/Repugs first, which has nothing to do with America )

© 2006 The Associated Press