Rumsfeld lies until he's caught, lied about policy of excluding reporters

[bigtree]

Updated: 1 hour, 12 minutes ago

from meeting with families of soldiers subject to backdoor draft . . .

Secretary of Defense responds to criticism over extending Iraq deployments

FAIRBANKS, Alaska - In a lively but polite give-and-take, Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld fielded questions Saturday from wives and other family members of Alaska-based soldiers whose combat tours in Iraq were abruptly extended just as they prepared to return home this month.

Reporters, including five who traveled with Rumsfeld from Washington, D.C., were not permitted to cover his meeting with the family members, which lasted about an hour. But a wife who made a video tape of the event showed it to reporters afterward.

One wife asked Rumsfeld why the 172nd was doing house-to-house searches in Baghdad instead of, combat operations they are trained to perform. Rumsfeld disputed her assertion, saying that 95 percent of the house-clearing operations are being done by Iraqi troops.

In an interview during his flight to Fairbanks, Rumsfeld said he saw no reason for the soldiers or their families to be angry at him.

Asked why reporters would not be permitted to cover the event, Rumsfeld at first replied, “I don’t have any idea. I haven’t addressed the subject.” Later he said he makes it a practice to make all family meetings private.


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[Erika]

1. Rumsfeld is a total incompetent

The leader of chickenhawks who are the GOP in charge.

[bananarepublican]

2. Let's hope he is also incontinent! Rumsfeld the incontinent incompetent!!

Kind of rolls off the tongue, don't it?

[bigtree]

5. he's a pisser alright

[EFerrari]

4. Do you think so? I don't. I think he's crazy like a fox and sitting

on top of a global torture program and he probably doesn't even remember why it was a good idea.

[niyad]

3. "Rumsfeld said he saw no reason for the soldiers or their families to be

angry with him."

we know that the members of this lying maladministration are totally clueless, but it's almost scary to see it proven so convincingly.