US Marine; "Who's Rumsfeld?"

[LynnTheDem]

The sergeant went upstairs to tell his marines, just as he had informed them the day before that the Republican Party had lost control of the House of Representatives and that Congress was in the midst of sweeping change.

"Rumsfeld's out," he said to five marines sprawled with rifles on the cold floor. Lance Corporal James Davis Jr. looked up from his cigarette. "Who's Rumsfeld?" he asked.

http://www.iht.com/articles/2006/11/10/news/marines.php

Poor war criminal rummy; so irrelevant.

[MADem]

1. Thanks for posting--that's a worthwhile article. K/R!!

.....Marine infantry units have traditionally been nonpolitical, to the point of stubbornly embracing a peculiar detachment from policy currents at home. It is a pillar of the corps' martial culture: Those with the most at stake are among the least involved in the decisions that send them where they go.

Rumsfeld may have become one of the war's most polarizing figures at home. But among these young marines slogging through the war in Anbar Province, he appeared to mean almost nothing. If he was another casualty, they have seen worse.

"Rumsfeld is the secretary of defense," McKinnon said, answering Davis's question.

Davis simply cursed.

It did not sound like anger or disgust. It seemed instead to be an exclamation about the irrelevance of the news. The sergeant might as well have told the squad of yesterday's weather.

[rodeodance]

2. te he. rummy---just a comma in History