Take thy Rummy to thy nursing home....
Rumsfeld: 'I'd love to be Santa Claus. I'm not.'
Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld yesterday praised the work of an Army brigade whose one-year tour in Iraq was extended just as they prepared to return home, and said he saw no reason for the soldiers or their families to be angry at him.
"I don't put it in that context," he said. "These people are all volunteers. They all signed up. They all are there doing what they're doing because they want to do it. They're proud of what they do. They do it very, very well."
Reporters who traveled with Rumsfeld from Washington, D.C., were to be excluded from the session.
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.
The brigade's tour was extended by up to 120 days, bringing them close to a Christmas return date. Rumsfeld said he would make no promises that the full brigade would be back home by the holidays.
"I'd love to be Santa Claus. I'm not," he said in an interview with reporters during a flight to Fairbanks.
http://www.concordmonitor.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060827/REPOSITORY/608270394/1013/48HOURS
And this statement is coming from a person that never served in the military...
2 comments:
Yes Rummy does need to be in a senior nursing home. He is so insensitive to others that Santa Clause statement wasn't necessary as families have to deal with their fathers not being home for Christmas. As Rummy never saw action he stayed on US soil teaching he wouldn't understand what's it like to be an active soldier fighting in war time.
Rummy's words were very insensitive to the soldiers and families. He certainly doesn't know what the soldiers are going through since he never been in the military...
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