Excerpt from Rummy's speech: (You bunch of commie traitors.)
Donald Rumsfeld addressed the American Legion Convention. He talked about how the US once stopped fascism, then talked about how we need to fight fascism by using any means necessary to arriving at out goal. No freedom is too precious, no prohibition of law too sacred to cast aside in pursuit of this goal. Then he got whiny about it.
We need to consider the following questions, I would submit.
With the growing lethality and the increasing availability of weapons, can we truly afford to believe that somehow, some way, vicious extremists can be appeased?
Can folks really continue to think that free countries can negotiate a separate peace with terrorists?
Can we afford the luxury of pretending that the threats today are simply law enforcement problems, like robbing a bank or stealing a car, rather than threats of a fundamentally different nature, requiring fundamentally different approaches?
And can we really afford to return to the destructive view that America -- not the enemy, but America -- is the source of the world's troubles?
These are central questions for our time, and we must face them, and face them honestly. We hear every day of new plans, new efforts to murder Americans and other free people. Indeed, the plot that was discovered in London that would have killed hundreds, possibly thousands, of innocent men, women and children on aircraft flying from London to the United States should remind us that this enemy is serious, lethal and relentless.
But this is still not well-recognized or fully understood. It seems that in some quarters, there is more of a focus on dividing our country than acting with unity against the gathering threats.
It's a strange time when a database search of America's leading newspapers turns up literally 10 times as many mentions of one of the soldiers who has been punished for misconduct -- 10 times more than the mentions of Sergeant 1st Class Paul Ray Smith, the first recipient of the Medal of Honor in the global war on terror; or when a senior editor at Newsweek disparagingly refers to the brave volunteers in our armed forces -- the Army, the Navy, the Air Force, the Marines, the Coast Guard -- as a mercenary army.
When the former head of CNN accuses the American military of deliberately targeting journalists; and the once CNN Baghdad bureau chief finally admits that, as bureau chief in Baghdad, he concealed reports of Saddam Hussein's crimes when he was in charge there so that CNN could keep on reporting selective news.
And it's a time when Amnesty International refers to the military facility at Guantanamo Bay, which holds terrorists who have vowed to kill Americans, and which is arguably the best run and most scrutinized detention facility in the history of warfare, the gulag of our times.
It's inexcusable.
Those who know the truth need to speak out against these kinds of myths and distortions that are being told about our troops and about our country. America is not what's wrong with the world.
The struggle we are in, the consequences are too severe, the struggle too important to have the luxury of returning to that old mentality of Blame America first.
Maybe it's me, but I think he's channeling Agnew. Just when you think these arseholes can't get any worse, they do. We defend freedom against fascism by, ahm, becoming fascists.
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