Former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld has died at the age of 88. Rumsfeld served as Defense Secretary under Gerald Ford and George Bush and was central to the plans involving the invasion into Iraq and Afghanistan.
He died in Taos, New Mexico, according to his family.
The Princeton-educated Rumsfeld drew global attention for his televised briefings during the Iraq War, as when he spoke about weapons of mass destruction in 2002.
'As we know, there are known knowns; there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns,' he pontificated.
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WNU Editor: He was in the public eye for six decades and served under four presidents. To say that he had a storied and controversial career is an understatement.
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There are things we don't know and there are things we don't know we don't know.. classic :D RIP
ReplyDeleteI always appreciated Rumsfeld's blunt spoken, direct language. One of the more competent SECDEF's we've had. Wish we had him now.
ReplyDeleteRIP,
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Yeah, now we have idiots and maroons
ReplyDelete“You go to war with the army you have, not the army you might want or wish to have at a later time.”
ReplyDelete― Donald Rumsfeld
He was right. Chamberlain was wrong. England's and Frances hesitancy allowed Germany time to digest the armaments of Czechoslovakia to outfit 20 to 40 divisions.
The NAZI conquered France with the Panzer 35t. It was not German designed. It was not German manufactured. It was a gift from Neville to Adolf. Think about it.
WWII Ordnance: The Marauding Marder
The German anti-tank vehicles were another gift from Neville to the NAZIs the Marder filled a gaping hole in German capabilities. It was build on a Czech chassis, a 35(t).
The Marder was not made in Germany.
"In a speech delivered in the Reichstag, Hitler stressed the military importance of occupation, noting that by occupying Czechoslovakia, Germany gained 2,175 field cannons, 469 tanks, 500 anti-aircraft artillery pieces, 43,000 machine guns, 1,090,000 military rifles, 114,000 pistols, about a billion rounds of ammunition and three million anti-aircraft shells. This amount of weaponry would be sufficient to arm about half of the then Wehrmacht.[24] Czechoslovak weaponry later played a major part in the German conquests of Poland (1939) and France (1940)—countries that had pressured Czechoslovakia's surrender to Germany in 1938."
ReplyDeletehttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_occupation_of_Czechoslovakia#Second_World_War
Genius, Neville Chamberlain, doubled the size of the German Army. He was no Rumsfeld.
Sure the Munich agreement gave Britain a little time to rearm. It also gave Germany time to rearm. Who could rearm faster.
Did kicking the can down the road allow Britain to shift the correlation of forces more in their favor.
No.
Not when you double German armament overnight.
RUMSFELD IS RIGHT!
REST IN PISS.
ReplyDeleteA concrete example from WW2 is give showing Rumsfeld is correct and all you have is a counter argument of "Rest in piss".
ReplyDeleteI'm so happy for you. You have learned your lessons well and get gold star for your impeccable liberal counterargument.