Ex- Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, in a surprise farewell visit to U.S. troops in Iraq this weekend, said the consequences of the war's failure would be "unacceptable." Meanwhile, President Jalal Talabani, a Kurd and one of the staunchest U.S. supporters in the Iraqi leadership, also said that U.S. training of Iraq's army and police had gone "from failure to failure."Talabani said: "If you read this report, one would think that it is written for a young, small colony that they are imposing these conditions on," Talabani said. "We are a sovereign country." He also pointed to the report's call for the approval of a law that would allow thousands of officials from Saddam Hussein's ousted Baath party to return to their jobs.
Rumsfeld said the consequences of the war's failure would be "unacceptable." He said to more than 1,200 troops at al-Asad "For the past six years, I have had the opportunity and, I would say, the privilege, to serve with the greatest military on the face of the Earth,", an air base in western Anbar province. Rumsfeld did not meet with Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki. He returned to Washington late Sunday.
1] Why was he allowed to go there to stir up the troops when he has no official position?
2] Note his words ‘serve with’. He really does believe he’s a military man, doesn’t he? He sees himself as some sort of general. This is what the generals were complaining about.
3] What else was he there for?
I couldn't work out what he was doing there either. "Greatest military on earth" indeed!! "Great" soldiers do not go around abusing their prisoners, for a start. And how dare he say he'd "served with" them, as you point out.
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