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To: i-node who wrote (611396)	5/16/2011 2:07:55 PM
From: Alighieri	1 Recommendation Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1575803

He told marines at Camp Lejeune in North Carolina: "If you'd asked me four months ago if we'd be in Libya today, I would have asked you what you were smoking". I gather that you are using this as another opportunity to slam the president? Because if you are then you are taking a departure from the typical right wing message, which has been to get more involved in Libya...which obama has refused to do. I do wish gates had been the secretary of defense when W took us to iraq... “In my opinion, any future defense secretary who advises the president to again send a big American land army into Asia or into the Middle East or Africa should ‘have his head examined,’ as General MacArthur so delicately put it,” Mr. Gates told an assembly of Army cadets here. Al

To: i-node who wrote (611396)	5/16/2011 2:11:15 PM
From: Alighieri	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 1575803

Don't you love it when two former colleagues are no longer obligated to hold back what we already know...she was incompetent (according to Rummy) and he doesn't know what he's talking about...truth is they were both incompetent and neither knew what they were doing. Al ============================================================== Condi Rice: "Rumsfeld Is Wrong & Grumpy" I think it's safe to say that Condi & Rummy ain't friends From Politico, about the moderate-conservative Republican: "After months of silence, former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice finally has her review ready of the charges in former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld’s memoir that she was never critical of George W. Bush’s positions and was ill-equipped for a senior administration role: 'He doesn’t know what he’s talking about.'" The article continues: "Rice had declined interview requests on Rumsfeld’s book, 'Known and Unknown,' since it hit the bookshelves in February, but in a question-and-answer feature with The New York Times Magazine that will be in Sunday’s issue, Rice said Rumsfeld’s take on her time as secretary of state and, before that, as national security adviser, could only have been invented." More: "Rumsfeld also suggested that Rice did not have the skills to manage a major government office. 'She’d been an academic. And, you know, a lot of academics like to have meetings,' he said in one interview. 'And they like to bridge differences and get people all to be happy.' But Rice countered that her academic experience as provost of Stanford University was not so modest and 'not so easy.' She added: 'I don’t know what Don was trying to say, and it really doesn’t matter. Don can be a grumpy guy. We all know that.'"