Congratulations to Sgt. 1st Class Paul Ray Smith

Now that we've acknowledged the fact that the Sgt. received an award, does Donald Rumsfeld feel better about having cost us the lives of 2,641 young American military men and women?

Give me a f'ing break! You are the worse kind of leader -- one who cannot admit failure and instead must place blame on the neysayers! RESIGN RUMSFELD!!!

Rumsfeld Lashes Out at Bush's Critics
Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld Says Bush Critics Trying to Appease 'New Type of Fascism'

By ROBERT BURNS
The Associated Press

SALT LAKE CITY, Utah - Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld on Tuesday accused critics of the Bush administration's Iraq and counterterrorism policies of trying to appease "a new type of fascism."

In unusually explicit terms, Rumsfeld was expected to portray the administration's critics as suffering from "moral and intellectual confusion" about what threatens the nation's security and accused them of lacking the courage to fight back.


In remarks prepared for delivery to the American Legion's national convention, Rumsfeld was to recite what he will describe as the lessons of history, including the failed efforts to appease the regime of Adolf Hitler in Germany in the 1930s.


"I recount this history because once again we face the same kind of challenges in efforts to confront the rising threat of a new type of fascism" Rumsfeld's text said.


Rumsfeld is speaking to an American Legion convention as part of a coordinated White House strategy, in advance of the anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, aimed at administration critics at a time of doubte about the future of Iraq and growing calls to withdraw U.S. troops.


Rumsfeld plans to recall a string of recent terrorist attacks, from the Sept. 11 attacks to bombings in Bali, London and Madrid, and say it should be obvious to anyone that terrorists must be confronted, not appeased.


"But it is apparent that many have still not learned history's lessons," his text said, adding that part of the problem is that the American news media have tended to emphasize the negative rather than the positive.


For example, Rumsfeld is to say that more media attention was given to U.S. soldiers' abuse of Iraqi prisoners at Abu Ghraib than to the fact that Sgt. 1st Class Paul Ray Smith received the Medal of Honor.

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