Rumsfeld Tells It Straight Up

In fact it was largely Rumsfeld and Powell that won a sceptic over to the Bush camp, me. His recent speech pointed with laser guided precision at the MSM in this country is a perfect example of why I like the guy, he's a serious Billy Goat Gruff. Heres a couple other choice excerts missed by most.

"If one is viewing events through a soda straw, one should know that one is
by definition selectively focusing on facts that may highlight one's perceived
view and not seeing other perspectives. A full picture of Iraq comes best from
an understanding of both the good and the bad, and the context for each."

Love that dry wit and then he lays out the facts.

"The other question I posed is of critical importance: why does Iraq's
success or failure matter to the American people?
Consider this quote: "What
you have seen, Americans, in New York and Washington, D.C., and the losses you
are having in Afghanistan and Iraq, in spite of all the media blackout, are only
the losses of the initial clashes."
The speaker is Ayman al-Zawahiri, a
senior member of the terrorist group al Qaeda and a top leader in the effort to
defeat U.S. and coalition forces around the world. The terrorists' method of
attack, simply put, is slaughter. They behead. They bomb children. They attack
funerals and wedding receptions.
This is the kind of brutality and mayhem
the terrorists are working to bring to our shores. And if we do not succeed in
our efforts to arm and train Iraqis to help defeat these terrorists in Iraq,
this is the kind of mayhem that a terrorist, emboldened by a victory, will bring
to our cities again--let there be no doubt."

"Imagine the world our children would face if we allowed Zawahiri, Zarqawi,
bin Laden and others of their ilk to seize power or operate with impunity out of
Iraq. They would turn Iraq into what Afghanistan was before 9/11--a haven for
terrorist recruitment and training and a launching pad for attacks against U.S.
interests and our fellow citizens. Iraq would serve as the base of a new Islamic
caliphate to extend throughout the Middle East and to threaten legitimate
governments throughout the world . This is their plan. They have said so. We
should listen and learn.
Quitting is not a strategy. Quitting is an
invitation to more attacks and more terrorist violence here at home. This is not
just an hypothesis. The U.S. withdrawal from Somalia emboldened Osama bin Laden
in the 1990s. We know this. He has said so."

And in closing he offered this:

"Our country is waging a battle unlike any other in history. We are waging
it in a media age unlike any that war fighters have ever known. In this new
century, we all need to make adjustments--in government and in the media. And
change is hard.
But to paraphrase Thomas Jefferson, we are all Republicans.
We are all Democrats. We are all Americans. We are all in this together. And
what we do today will not only impact us, but our children and our
grandchildren, and the kind of world they will live in."

He toys with the press and they know it and hate him for it, he's the cat and they are the mice and they don't like getting swatted with his well clawed paws. In my opinion the Whitehouse should just turn Rumsfeld and Cheney lose on the MSM, let the lions roar.

Should original gangbanger Stanley "Tookie" Williams be executed? I say yes.