Comments on: Rumsfeld Clears the Air http://fanaticalapathy.com/2004/12/09/rumsfeld-clears-the-air/ America's favorite blog Thu, 08 Jan 2009 12:59:06 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.11 by: gardenbearMN http://fanaticalapathy.com/2004/12/09/rumsfeld-clears-the-air/#comment-5780 Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000 http://fanaticalapathy.com/2004/12/09/rumsfeld-clears-the-air/#comment-5780 wow. wow.

]]> by: tim http://fanaticalapathy.com/2004/12/09/rumsfeld-clears-the-air/#comment-5781 Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000 http://fanaticalapathy.com/2004/12/09/rumsfeld-clears-the-air/#comment-5781 The one thing I know is, Specialist Thomas Wilson is going to have a very unmerry Christmas. The one thing I know is, Specialist Thomas Wilson is going to have a very unmerry Christmas.

]]> by: norbizness http://fanaticalapathy.com/2004/12/09/rumsfeld-clears-the-air/#comment-5782 Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000 http://fanaticalapathy.com/2004/12/09/rumsfeld-clears-the-air/#comment-5782 I needed my own Rumsfeldian crib notes back in the day; I would have never failed that midterm philosophy exam on Wittgenstein. But the F.A. Rumsfeld needs more Mamet: he could insert progressively annoying phrases like "The armor", "You were speaking just now... [long pause].", and "The armor of which you were speaking [pause]. Yes [long pause]." I needed my own Rumsfeldian crib notes back in the day; I would have never failed that midterm philosophy exam on Wittgenstein.

But the F.A. Rumsfeld needs more Mamet: he could insert progressively annoying phrases like “The armor”, “You were speaking just now… [long pause].”, and “The armor of which you were speaking [pause]. Yes [long pause].”

]]> by: Landis http://fanaticalapathy.com/2004/12/09/rumsfeld-clears-the-air/#comment-5783 Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000 http://fanaticalapathy.com/2004/12/09/rumsfeld-clears-the-air/#comment-5783 Okay so the stuff below the line of dashes is Adam's satire, correct? Please, oh please, tell me that the stuff in bold at the top and somehow quoted by Reuters and linked to by Yahoo is also some wonderful satire by Adam... Please? Anyone? Okay so the stuff below the line of dashes is Adam’s satire, correct?

Please, oh please, tell me that the stuff in bold at the top and somehow quoted by Reuters and linked to by Yahoo is also some wonderful satire by Adam… Please? Anyone?

]]> by: Marg http://fanaticalapathy.com/2004/12/09/rumsfeld-clears-the-air/#comment-5784 Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000 http://fanaticalapathy.com/2004/12/09/rumsfeld-clears-the-air/#comment-5784 It was W's attributed remarks in the linked article that made me sit up and go "huh?" Sez prez: "And if I were a soldier overseas, wanting to defend my country, I'd want to ask the secretary of defense the same question." Frankly, if I wanted to defend my country, overseas would be the wrong place to be, for one, and for two, I'm pretty sure _my_ first question to the Sec. of Defense would be, "What the eff are we all doin' over HERE?! Sir. And what the hell does it have to do with defense?" It was W’s attributed remarks in the linked article that made me sit up and go “huh?”

Sez prez: “And if I were a soldier overseas, wanting to defend my country, I’d want to ask the secretary of defense the same question.”

Frankly, if I wanted to defend my country, overseas would be the wrong place to be, for one, and for two, I’m pretty sure _my_ first question to the Sec. of Defense would be, “What the eff are we all doin’ over HERE?! Sir. And what the hell does it have to do with defense?”

]]> by: Jerry http://fanaticalapathy.com/2004/12/09/rumsfeld-clears-the-air/#comment-5785 Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000 http://fanaticalapathy.com/2004/12/09/rumsfeld-clears-the-air/#comment-5785 Adam - Yossarian couldn't have explained it better! Brilliant. Landis - Of <i>course</i> it's part of the satire...I mean...if you took it <i>seriously</i>, you would have to read it as, "We're going to lean on this little squeal-pig, tell him what to believe, let him know that the good ol' US of A is 10,000 miles away and even though everyone there has seen the "expediants" the troops there have had to use, like sand-bagging the troop carriers, we are not about to let on it is true, and therefore, what this contemptible whine-boy <i>thinks</i> he knows, just because he is there under fire, isn't what we know, and if he ever wants to see home again, he had better agree our "exchange" will have been <i>damned</i> "constructive!!" Adam - Yossarian couldn’t have explained it better! Brilliant.

Landis - Of course it’s part of the satire…I mean…if you took it seriously, you would have to read it as, “We’re going to lean on this little squeal-pig, tell him what to believe, let him know that the good ol’ US of A is 10,000 miles away and even though everyone there has seen the “expediants” the troops there have had to use, like sand-bagging the troop carriers, we are not about to let on it is true, and therefore, what this contemptible whine-boy thinks he knows, just because he is there under fire, isn’t what we know, and if he ever wants to see home again, he had better agree our “exchange” will have been damned “constructive!!”

]]> by: Jerry http://fanaticalapathy.com/2004/12/09/rumsfeld-clears-the-air/#comment-5786 Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000 http://fanaticalapathy.com/2004/12/09/rumsfeld-clears-the-air/#comment-5786 Remeber, norbizness, "Wittgenstein was a beery swine..." And that wasn't just Monty Python's opinion: <i>"I shall either remain a swine or else I shall improve"</i> Wittgenstein Mamet? Good, but personally I see more absurdist tendencies in the administration, say George Coe (De Düva). Remeber, norbizness, “Wittgenstein was a beery swine…”

And that wasn’t just Monty Python’s opinion:

“I shall either remain a swine or else I shall improve”
Wittgenstein

Mamet? Good, but personally I see more absurdist tendencies in the administration, say George Coe (De Düva).

]]> by: Murray http://fanaticalapathy.com/2004/12/09/rumsfeld-clears-the-air/#comment-5787 Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000 http://fanaticalapathy.com/2004/12/09/rumsfeld-clears-the-air/#comment-5787 As we used to say in college, Is knowledge knowable? And if not how do you know? Can you imagine? a grunt questioning the secretary on something as irritating as troop safety? "Goddammit! Things are going swimmingly and the troops love us, how did this miscreant get in here?" As far as I can tell, the greatest patriots are our soldiers fighting to defend our freedom and bring democracy to the Sadam ravaged land of Iraq. -Unless they question the administration. Oh, and you're a hero if you served in the armed forces unless you run for office as a democrat (or even a republican - Mc Cain) in which case you are a war criminal. As we used to say in college,

Is knowledge knowable? And if not how do you know?

Can you imagine? a grunt questioning the secretary on something as irritating as troop safety? “Goddammit! Things are going swimmingly and the troops love us, how did this miscreant get in here?”

As far as I can tell, the greatest patriots are our soldiers fighting to defend our freedom and bring democracy to the Sadam ravaged land of Iraq. -Unless they question the administration.

Oh, and you’re a hero if you served in the armed forces unless you run for office as a democrat (or even a republican - Mc Cain) in which case you are a war criminal.

]]> by: Bob http://fanaticalapathy.com/2004/12/09/rumsfeld-clears-the-air/#comment-5788 Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000 http://fanaticalapathy.com/2004/12/09/rumsfeld-clears-the-air/#comment-5788 I'm going to be magnanimous and solve this equipment shortage by volunteering to send to Iraq every Humvee in the Bay Area. Which, if the informal survey I've taken at the local malls is any indication, is about twice as many as are currently in Iraq. Don't think they're armored, though, unless Carnuba Wax is more substantial than I've been led to believe. I’m going to be magnanimous and solve this equipment shortage by volunteering to send to Iraq every Humvee in the Bay Area. Which, if the informal survey I’ve taken at the local malls is any indication, is about twice as many as are currently in Iraq.

Don’t think they’re armored, though, unless Carnuba Wax is more substantial than I’ve been led to believe.

]]> by: Rusty http://fanaticalapathy.com/2004/12/09/rumsfeld-clears-the-air/#comment-5789 Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000 http://fanaticalapathy.com/2004/12/09/rumsfeld-clears-the-air/#comment-5789 What's that line from the Princess Bride? "Never argue with a Sicilian." What’s that line from the Princess Bride? “Never argue with a Sicilian.”

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