Hypocrisy Becomes Them

In the too ironic for words department:

"There are a lot of things that are said by people that are their views," [Donald Rumsfeld] said, "and that's the way we live. We are free people and that's the wonderful thing about our country, and I think for anyone to run around and think that can be managed or controlled is probably wrong."

No comment necessary.

I will note, however, that this is in regards to the comments by Lt. General Boykin regarding his views on the war on terror. Why is this relevant?

This summer, Boykin was promoted to deputy undersecretary of defense, with a new mission for which many say he is uniquely qualified: to aggressively combine intelligence with special operations and hunt down so-called high-value terrorist targets including bin Laden and Saddam.

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"Well, is he [bin Laden] the enemy? Next slide. Or is this man [Saddam] the enemy? The enemy is none of these people I have showed you here. The enemy is a spiritual enemy. He's called the principality of darkness. The enemy is a guy called Satan."

To his credit, Lt. General Boykin has promised to avoid such comments while he serves in his current position. In other words, the guy who made the above comment seems to have a better grasp of the problems that kind of language could cause than the people he works for. I think the situation says far more about the views of the administration than the general's ability to do his job.

(/) Roland X
Support our troops...
NOT the Unelected Fraud who puts them in harm's way!