Rumsfeld Speaks

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This guy will always tell it like it is... the problem is, he is usually not given voice from the media. I remember his press conferences during the early days of the war... he was brilliant in them.

[[ Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld urged the American press yesterday to reassess what he called repeated negative coverage of Iraq as his commanders in Iraq push an extensive information war to counter terrorists' propaganda.

"We've arrived at a strange time in this country, where the worst about America and our military seems to so quickly be taken as truth by the press and reported and spread around the world," Mr. Rumsfeld said. The reporting is "often with little context and little scrutiny, let alone correction or accountability after the fact."

Mr. Rumsfeld said the press is too fixated on the Iraq casualty count, which includes more than 2,000 American troops killed. (Notice how they slipped it in here... they just can't resist! -ed)

"It's appropriate to note not only how many Americans have been killed -- and may God bless them and their families -- but what they died for, or, more accurately, what they lived for," Mr. Rumsfeld said.

When he meets with troops in Iraq, "They ask, 'Why aren't the American people being given an accurate picture of what's happening in Iraq?' " ]]

Hmmm... maybe because the old media refuses to tell the truth to the people... because it runs 180 to their agenda...? Nah... couldn't be that.

Testify, Rummy!

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