Rummy: leaving Iraq now is not an option ...it would only embolden Osama

[sabra]

http://www.upi.com/NewsTrack/view.php?StoryID=20051205-020213-3426r

Rumsfeld: Think progress, 'not concession'

BALTIMORE, Dec. 5 (UPI) -- U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld Monday said leaving Iraq now is not an option because it would only embolden Osama bin Laden.

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"This is not just a hypothesis," Rumsfeld said. "The U.S. withdrawal from Somalia emboldened Osama bin Laden in the 1990s. We know this. He said so."

Rumsfeld called for "resolve ... not concession."

"Rather than thinking in terms of an exit strategy, we should be focused on the strategy for success," he said.

[Gidney N Cloyd]

1. The care about Osama again? Damn, where's my scorecard...

[Xipe Totec]

2. I agree. Rummy Should stay in Iraq until it's over

He and Cheney can hold the Green Zone while our troops come home.

[Loonman]

3. Bull puckey

bin Ladin wasn't even a player on the international terror stage when the Somalia thing happened.


So Rummy is just lying, there.

[NanceGreggs]

4. Osama Bin Laden?

Bush said eons ago that he would smoke 'im out, chase 'im out, would capture him dead or alive. Now, we all know that Georgie is a man of his word, so I've always just assumed that he'd gotten Bin Laden years ago!

Well, I guess that's the Liberal Media for you. Apparently, they are so in control of the newspapers, TV and radio news outlets, they've managed to quash this story to the point where even Rummy DOESN'T KNOW that Osama is long gone.

Maybe Georgie should pay off some of his pay-pals in the media; it's the only way this story is ever going to get out.

[shraby]

5. Osama who???

Thought he wasn't important any more...only when they need him to be.

[SammyWinstonJack]

14. Only at election time or when Pinhead and co. need to shut everyone up

about getting the hell out of Iraq before they've managed to steal the Iraqis blind. Osama Bin Forgotten and the War on Terrorism are cover for war and oil profits. Why don't the bushbots question why their favorite pResident hasn't caught Osama yet?

[mmonk]

6. Yeah,

I'm sure the occupation of Iraq is stopping terrorism.

[Swamp Rat]

7. We can start by getting Osama off FUX News

[Norquist Nemesis]

8. Has he been chatting with Osama on his cell phone again?

:sarcasm:

[BattyDem]

9. Osama?

Damn! They must be really desperate if they're dragging him out of storage.

[indie_voter]

10. ....

:eyes:

[indepat]

11. That leaving Iraq would embolden bin Laden would not be relevant had we

not gone there in the first place.

[okieinpain]

12. who's osama?

[bigtree]

13. "strategy for success"

Does anyone here still think there can be 'success' in Iraq without an exit? Can anyone envision a successful Iraq anytime in the near future?

Not me.