Rumsfeld calls 70% of the Nation Cowards

Looks like Rummy is at it again, saying people who disapprove of the administration's policies "lack the courage to fight terror" i.e. saying that they are cowards.

By that logic, since ~70% of the citizens of the United States disapprove of the way that the Bush Administration has handled the Iraq war, we all "lack courage".

From  CNN:

"Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld on Tuesday accused critics of the Bush administration's Iraq and counterterrorism policies of lacking the courage to fight terror.

In unusually explicit terms, Rumsfeld portrayed the administration's critics as suffering from "moral and intellectual confusion" about what threatens the nation's security."

•  tipjar

  Not the most  informative post, I know, but I couldn't let this go.

  by Hiro on Tue Aug 29, 2006 at 11:02:54 AM PDT

•  Hah

  We don't lack courage. We lack the fear necessary to be herded, bleating, into the cattle chute very misleadingly marked "security & freedom."

  by NewDirection on Tue Aug 29, 2006 at 11:04:50 AM PDT

  •  Last ditch efforts are noticed by all. n/t

    by deminomaha on Tue Aug 29, 2006 at 11:46:24 AM PDT

•  National Security

  I'll tell you what threatens our national security...

  RUMMY and his imcomp-poops threaten our national security.

  He's forgetting that when he points a finger at someone else, his other three fingers are pointing right back at him.

  by Alegre on Tue Aug 29, 2006 at 11:05:45 AM PDT

•  The real cowards

  Bush and Cheney, our top two draft dodgers.  

  by newhorizon on Tue Aug 29, 2006 at 11:12:48 AM PDT

•  You left out the best part

  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.

  “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.

  Who's the one that is confused?

  by iliketodrum on Tue Aug 29, 2006 at 11:17:49 AM PDT

  •  No no no - *this* is the best part:

    On blaming the media for emphasizing more negative news than positive:

    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.

    Why yes, I can clearly see which of the two is the more newsworthy...can't you?

    by PatsBard on Tue Aug 29, 2006 at 11:55:23 AM PDT

•  It is the

  self-righterous, profiteering bastards in the military/intelligence/industrial complex who have moral and intellectual confusion about what threatens the nation's security.

  It is the bigots who are confused and afraid of people of color and gays.

  Rumsfeld is projecting his situation where he told us the war in Iraq would probably not last more than 6 months and we would be greated and received warmly as liberators.

  Rumsfeld is senile and so our dollars are being wasted by the billions in the Department of Defense.

  by Lew2006 on Tue Aug 29, 2006 at 11:19:21 AM PDT

•  I no longer regard Rumsfeld as completely sane.

  So I rarely even read his blatherings anymore.

  by dov12348 on Tue Aug 29, 2006 at 11:21:04 AM PDT

  •  Rummy hasn't been sane

    for a coupla decades or so.

    by wozzle on Tue Aug 29, 2006 at 11:22:59 AM PDT

•  I think if asked the correct question:

  "What poses the greatest threat to America"
  A very large percentage would say :
  " The Bush Administration"

  by cabinetman1 on Tue Aug 29, 2006 at 11:32:26 AM PDT

•  It's Rumsfeld who

  is suffering from moral and intellectual confusion as well as delusions of grandeur.

  by Cat Whisperer on Tue Aug 29, 2006 at 11:43:44 AM PDT

•  Rumsfeld is pathetic n/t

  by cwaltz on Tue Aug 29, 2006 at 12:10:36 PM PDT

•  Been diaried today

  http://www.dailykos.com/...

  by mmontanaman on Tue Aug 29, 2006 at 12:11:45 PM PDT

•  I believe Rummy is

  "...in his last throes"

  by KozmoD on Tue Aug 29, 2006 at 12:15:55 PM PDT

•  "My Goodness" n/t

  by JEB on Tue Aug 29, 2006 at 12:22:15 PM PDT

•  Two Enemies For The Price of One

  Rummy is a demented and amoral old fool.

  America doesn't lack 'the courage to fight terror.' It's just that 70% of us have become aware of another, equally important battle we must fight: the one which Republicans are waging against America to replace democracy with fascism.

  So Henny Penny, gosh darn, America's on to you, Rummy. Enjoy your last delusional years, because your place in the history books won't be pretty-- somewhere just to the right of Benedict Arnold, Oswald, or Booth.

  by Bad Cog on Tue Aug 29, 2006 at 12:35:12 PM PDT

•  This guy is such an asshole why pay atention

  Rummie is such a poor excuse for a human being that I marvel at how he continues to exist. How can he stand himself with all the blood he has on his hands.

  by tjfxh on Tue Aug 29, 2006 at 12:41:37 PM PDT