Rummy declined honor as ‘Person of the Year’

[jbfam4]

http://www.hillnews.com/open_secrets/010704.aspx


Rummy declined honor as ‘Person of the Year’
The Time cover that didn’t appear

It isn’t often that someone turns down an offer to be Time magazine’s “Person of the Year,” especially when that someone is as important as Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld.

But that’s what Rumsfeld did when he learned that Time was planning to honor him in its year-end issue last month.

Rumsfeld told guests at a holiday party that in this year of conflict in Iraq and Afghanistan, the U.S. military deserved the honor more than he did, which is why Army Sgts. Marquette Whiteside and Ronald Buxton and Spc. Billie Grimes turned up on Time’s Dec. 29 cover.

[KissMyAsscroft]

1. One....little.....tear.....

vomit

[Richardo]

2. What a scumbag...even if true, he's telling the troops they were 2d choice

...to his imperial holiness.

Real class, Rumsferatu... you wad.

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[rooboy]

3. By refusing this "honor"...

Rummy may well have saved Time magazine's ass. There's no way he was the most significant newsmaker of 2003.

[Kadosh]

4. Marketing Rumsfeld

I didn't know that Time needed needed permission to make the decision, and it is not always an "honor" as Hitler was also once chosen. Whoever leaked this story is just promoting Rumsfeld.

[grannylib]

6. I think this sounds as manufactured as the Brit Airways story and the

pResident Bush sends his regards one...
Buncha shit.
What has Rummy done besides jam both feet down his throat?

[spooky3]

8. welcome to DU, Kadosh!

[beanball]

5. "The butcher of Baghdad"

Man of the year,or should that be criminal of the year?

[Love Bug]

7. With his ego?

Yeah, this really happened.

[Davis_X_Machina]

10. It is patently obvious....

...that there was an imperial ukase issued by Regent Cheney that if Junta Boy didn't get the cover, no one in the Administration was getting the cover.