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Carlitos Brigante

(26,494 posts)
Wed Sep 15, 2021, 04:51 PM Sep 2021

"Well, I don't need to meet with him." Junior's work ethic/intellectual curiosity in nutshell.

Document 7

Office of the Secretary of Defense, Donald Rumsfeld “snowflake” to [redacted], Subject: “Meetings with President,” October 21, 2002, 5:50 p.m., not classified, 1 p., (“Who is General McNeill?”)
Oct 21, 2002
Source
Digital National Security Archive, obtained through a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit

By the fall of 2002, the White House focus centered on the buildup to invading Iraq, to the point that President Bush didn’t even know who his latest commander was in Kabul. This Rumsfeld snowflake, likely to a secretary whose name is redacted on privacy grounds (b6), recounts seeing Bush in the Oval Office on October 21, 2002, asking if he wanted to meet with General Franks (head of Central Command) and General McNeill, and noticing that Bush was quite puzzled. “He said, ‘Who is General McNeill?’ I said he is the general in charge of Afghanistan. He said, ‘Well, I don’t need to meet with him.”

https://nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-book/afghanistan/2021-08-19/afghanistan-2020-20-year-war-20-documents

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"Well, I don't need to meet with him." Junior's work ethic/intellectual curiosity in nutshell. (Original Post) Carlitos Brigante Sep 2021 OP
And the sad thing is...... MyOwnPeace Sep 2021 #1
Just wait until Jesse Carlitos Brigante Sep 2021 #2

Carlitos Brigante

(26,494 posts)
2. Just wait until Jesse
Wed Sep 15, 2021, 05:29 PM
Sep 2021

Lee Peterson gets the republican nomination. After that I expect they'll run a bible wrapped in a rebel flag with a shotgun taped on the side.

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