Rummy - Iraq: "it's going to take decades..to get the infrastructure back"

[sabra]

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=10000103&sid=a2RYHP98nAl4&refer=us

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Rumsfeld sought to assuage lawmakers' concerns. ``Just as we did during the Cold War -- what President Kennedy called a `long twilight struggle' -- we will persevere in the long war we face today,'' he said.

Iraqis must take responsibility for rebuilding their war- torn country. ``In the last analysis, the Iraqi people are going to have to rebuild that country,'' Rumsfeld said. The U.S. should avoid ``creating a dependency,'' he said.

Rumsfeld said ``it's going to take decades for them to get the infrastructure back where a modern country would have it.''

:wtf:

[PDJane]

1. It's especially gonna

take a long time when you're bombing the hell out of the coutry to pacify it.

[Saphire]

2. Iraqis must take responsibility for rebuilding their war- torn country

excuse me! After we were the ones who tore it apart? Rumfilled is a quack!

[tridim]

3. Golly gee I never meant to say it would take only a few weeks to win

Oh heavens no.

[bryant69]

4. If Rumsfeld has his way we will be at war for the rest of our lives

Bryant
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[orwell]

5. Oh Boy...

...no bid contracts.

WHeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!

[sandnsea]

6. Just....wow

:wow:


I am reminded of a passage in AA's Big Book when the drunk quits drinking and doesn't understand that more work needs to be done to repair the family, comparing him to a tornado viewing the wreckage and saying "ain't it grand the wind stopped blowing". Except Rummy doesn't even get that he's the wind and it ain't stopped blowing. These people are truly insane.