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- Just another 1.67 Friedmans, I promise.
- Best three out of five? Come on, three out of five.
- Is this thing on? Hello?
- Dude, that's what Blackberries are for.
- I'm sure we'll get a retraction and apology any mi...
- I guess that's why they call them "red" states.
- Open thread: CPoC broken promises edition.
- I only beat you because I love you.
- The heartbreak of word limit.
- And THESE people are in charge of our climate chan...
- If you want to bitch slap Mark Steyn, you'll have ...
- I'm sorry ... you just suggested WHAT??
- Gosh, he's so adorable when he's being such a petu...
- I'll see your scientifically-illiterate anti-envir...
- "Irony"? How do you spell that?
- Ever have one of THOSE days?
- Civility in discourse -- who would have guessed?
- Actually, feel free to let the door hit you in the...
- I love it when a plan comes together. And when I'...
- The CC wanker challenge -- step right up.
- The word "pathetic" just doesn't seem to do this j...
- Death by photo op.
- Once they're born, though, that's a different story.
- TBogg does Canada's Mark Steyn.
- We have NEVER been "stay the course."
- Readers: Start your engines ...
- When life imitates Dilbert.
- Well, we ARE open to suggestions.
- Civil discourse? Well, OK, just this once.
- A history of Microsoft in one minute and 26 seconds.
- "Sore Loserman," indeed.
- Apparently, Michelle Malkin was right. Go figure.
- Irony is officially dead.
- My new favourite comedian.
- Blogging Tories Short Takes: Sat, Nov. 25, 2006.
- See, that's the problem with a one-trick pony.
- Just kill me now, Lord.
- He who laughs last ...
- Dear American troops ...
- A little more here than meets the eye.
- When you absolutely, positively have to kill some ...
- I can name that tune in one freakin' note.
- Too much for just one day a year.
- And you just noticed that NOW!?
- "I have some good news, and I have some bad news."
- Apparently, there's just no pleasing some folks.
- Sometimes, a link is all you need.
- "All of our previous fantasies are inoperable."
- The downside of high technology.
- The 2006 CBA Awards: What the f...?
- Google: Endless fun for the whole family!
- "Nostradamus, deadpan mode, please."
- Wednesday night open thread.
- Giving that dead horse one more whack: the Joel Jo...
- "Free speech? I got yer free speech right HERE, b...
- More juvenile Rona Ambrose sexist humour.
- Because sometimes I just feel like being cruel.
- "I meant what I said, and I said what I meant ..."
- So much for that "Let the market decide" thing.
- Why, yes, I can see the resemblance now.
- The next sound I want to hear is a bullet from the...
- Hey ... HERE'S a thought ...
- No, you're not a journalist, you're just a blogger...
- It's all a matter of perspective, you know.
- The lighter side of conspicuous consumption.
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- Well, he oughta know.
- "Angry in the Great White North's" Steve Janke ...
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- Oh, those wacky, wacky lefties.
- "Quick! Get me rewrite!"
- Islam: Religion of (really, really slow) violence.
- Wait ... let me rephrase that.
- PM Stephen Harper: The thesaurus edition.
- Why is this man still allowed outdoors without a l...
- Because actual reeding iz hard werk.
- The upside of Tasers.
- Damned if you do, damned if you don't.
- I'm guessing this is NOT what they had in mind.
- Human rights watch, wanker edition.
- Not a bad investment, if you think about it.
- Right-wing hypocrisy. No, really.
- To infinite wankery! And beyond!
- "... without admitting any wrongdoing."
- Family values blotter ...
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- Compassionate conservatism -- the Taser edition.
- But if I accept what REALLY happened, it's no fun.
- The boy in the bubble -- Adam Daifallah edition.
- Separated at birth -- the TBogg edition.
- Those who cannot remember history ...
- Busy morning open thread.
- Debatably a hanging offense.
- Blogging Tories Short Takes: November 16, 2006.
- Oh, Jesus.
- What part of "metaphor" do you just not get?
- Great moments in Canadian punditry.
- "And Iran? Yeah, that'll be a cakewalk, trust me."
- "No, seriously, is this thing on?"
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3 comments:
Rumsfeld kept trying to tell everyone how "complicated" his stuff was, because to everyone else, it looked like "incompetence."
The both share the "comp" part.
Rumsfeld didn't really achieve much of anything at all.
The Generals didn't really fight him on his ideas about smaller, faster, mobile assault forces. They disagreed on the rather elementary point that policing and providing security for a country of 25 million, with a hostile, well-armed insurgency, would take many, many, more troops.
Some knuckle-dragging KKKate groupie is saying that Rumsfeld learned from Vietnam that a large occupying force creates "complacency" among the installed regime. to whit: the South Vietnamese never produced a viable fighting force.
So, uh, just asking genius, ... where's Iraq's viable fighting force, what with Rumsfeld's failure to provide adequate US troops?
moron.
Smaller, faster, mobile assault forces are actually a good idea, especially in this environment. Heavy artillery/armour in a counter insurgency would result in even more deaths by American fire than we are hearing about now. The problem is that they don't have enough small battle groups to maintain control. These groups have to keep moving around. When they move, the insurgents just keep coming back.
Rumsfeld is a smart guy and a visionary. The problem is he got the order from the President to march in to and take over a bees nest. It was Bush who didn't listen to Powell telling him that this wasn't a great idea.
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