Rumsfeld: I’m not Santa Claus

[ECH1969]

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.

“I’d love to be Santa Claus. I’m not,” he said in an interview with reporters during a flight to Fairbanks.

If it turned out that by December, U.S. commanders in Iraq felt they needed an unscheduled infusion of troops, “our first choice obviously would be to have them be someone other than the people we just extended,” Rumsfeld said. “But I’m not going to get into the promises business. That isn’t my style.”

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/14533814/from/RS.3/

[Beelzebud]

1. You're not a good secretary of defence either, jackass...

I'd love to have 5 minutes alone with Rummy.

[marmar]

2. No, you're the Grim Reaper...

You fucking maniac psychopath.

[nam78_two]

3. No arguments here

:eyes:

Forget Santa Claus...he ain't even Scrooge...

[ChairmanAgnostic]

4. Shouldn't this be posted under breaking news?

him not being Santa, and all.

[nam78_two]

5. Its from Saturday or Sunday /nt

[MADem]

13. There are a few threads on it, already

Here's one... http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x1989776

I posted this in another one; thought it fit. He's the Santa that shits down yer chimney, all right:

http://www.calder.net.nyud.net:8090/cartoons/cangell/santa-rumsfeld-600.jpg

[biscotti]

6. cynical bastard is apropos

[Crankie Avalon]

7. If he were Santa, all anyone would ever get would be spoiled food...

...from Halliburton and no body armor.

[WHEN CRABS ROAR]

8. No thats not your style.

lying is.

[bdamomma]

10. arrogance and killing is.

just adding to your list.

[Beelzebud]

9. Someone should tell him Saddam isn't Osama.

[ItNerd4life]

11. Didn't he say we would only be in there for 6 months?

I thought he said that at the very beginning. Isn't that being 'into the promises business'?

[liberalmuse]

12. No he is not, but he is known as 'Satan Claws'...

What an asshole. Those families are not asking for gifts, they just don't want their kids to be sent to war for no goddamned good reason. 'I'm not Santa Claus' - you piece of shit!

[spanone]

14. Yea, Rummy, style is so important. You sick fuck.

[dave123williams]

15. Santa Claus isn't a prevaricating douchebag.

[maddiejoan]

16. He sure looks like Santa tho'.

[ContraBass Black]

17. Thats just begging for a Swamp Rat or Distressed American photoshop.

:D

[damntexdem]

18. So that's why no white beard! No bag of toys!

No concern for the lives and happiness of human beings!

[Swamp Rat]

19. Rumsfeld: I’m an alien lizard who will send your children to die in Iraq

[semillama]

20. I wish he were Santa Claus:

Fictional.