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Politics : Don't Blame Me, I Voted For Kerry -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: H-Man who wrote (7151)	3/14/2004 2:04:20 PM
From: ChinuSFO	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 81568

Why is it not OK for Kerry to be against some military programs but it is OK when Rumsfeld is? The lies and propaganda of the extreme comes through in this column. Happy reading and I would hope that you will shut your mouth up when you are al ayperson when it comes to military. There is much that meets the eye that you cannot digest. But I would hope that you would have the intelligence and guide yourself to form your own opinions instead of being an ignorant mouthpiece. Happy reading. War boosted Rumsfeld's mission (and so did Kerry's after Vietnam) Military transformed into more agile, quick responding force By Jim Miklaszewski Correspondent NBC News Updated: 6:50 a.m. ET March 12, 2004WASHINGTON - Two years before American troops invaded Iraq, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld declared a personal war against the U.S. military's Cold War mentality and Pentagon bureaucracy. Rumsfeld put forward a vision for a top-to-bottom transformation in the way the military fights and how the Pentagon conducts its business. The war on terrorism, most recently in the conflicts in Afghanistan and Iraq, has bolstered Rumsfeld’s argument that the U.S. military needs to reform while demonstrating how that goal can be accomplished. In Afghanistan, small numbers of U.S. Special Forces joined arms with the private armies of Afghan warlords to swiftly defeat the Taliban and destroy the sanctuaries of the al-Qaida terrorist organization. ...contd. msnbc.msn.com