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While catching up on some internet reading today I happened
across a piece on Donald Rumsfeld which was a pretty funny
send up which sums up the level of hypocrisy/stupidity of the
clowns running America...

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http://www.dailykos.com/story/2006/2/17/17200/2236

Rumsfeld: Dead-Enders Defeating U.S. Via Blackberry
by SusanG

Fri Feb 17, 2006 at 03:20:00 PM PDT

Donald Rumsfeld today announced we are woefully
behind our "dead-ender" counterparts in Iraq and Al
Qaeda (you know, the guys living in caves) in terms
of being tech savvy.

All I can muster is ... huh?

I feel like a movie reel has been switched and I'm
watching the second half of a completely different
movie than the one I walked into. Kinda like starting
out in the Last of the Mohicans and ending up in
The Matrix.

Here's Rumsfeld today:

NEW YORK (Reuters) - The United States lags
dangerously behind al Qaeda and other enemies in
getting out information in the digital media age and
must update its old-fashioned methods, Defense
Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said on Friday.
...
The Pentagon chief said today's weapons of war
included e-mail, Blackberries, instant messaging,
digital cameras and Web logs, or blogs.

"Our enemies have skillfully adapted to fighting
wars in today's media age, but ... our country has
not adapted," Rumsfeld said.

So let me see if I have this straight. These same
"dead-enders," "remnants of defeated regimes,"
"small number of terrorists, a small number of militias,
coupled with some demonstrations and some
lawlessness," these are the same losers who now
are suddenly relegated to some category of
Blackberry-wielding, VOIP-using, IM'ing wizzes,
operating in a country with a few hours of
electricity per day? Is that the scenario? Or
am I missing an episode in a trilogy?

You know, every time Rumsfeld speaks, I feel a
little stupider. Here we are, arguably the most
industrialized nation in the world, the home of
Silicon Valley and Bill Gates and NASA, and
our defense secretary is trying to sell us on the
idea that we're getting our asses whupped by
people he'd previously designated as unaffiliated,
dying-gasp, disgruntled losers who are reluctant
to enter the 21st century and partake of the fruits
of democracy and capitalism with us.

If I missed a transitional phase, forgive me. Still,
I have some advice for Mr. Rumsfeld. Check with
your defense department's propaganda sub-contractors,
because something's seriously amiss here. You can
start with The Lincoln Group, which garnered a
sweet $20 million for a two-month contract (that's
$10 million a month for those too busy to do the
math) that was supposed to propagandize the Iraqis
into handing over their hearts and minds to the U.S.
I'll await your email notification of the investigative
result, Mr. Rumsfeld.