Today’s SHOCKER!!! From The Associated Press!!!!
The blaring headline says it all:
The utterly breathless report that follows puts the AP on a par with AFP's shocking revelation that American troops are physically throwing unfired rifle cartridges at Iraqi homes.
WASHINGTON - The word "Iraq" doesn't appear in former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld's resignation letter. Neither does the word "war." In fact, the deadly and much-criticized conflict that eventually drummed him out of office, comes up only in vague references, such as "a critical time in our history" and "challenging time for our country," in the four-paragraph, 148-word letter he wrote to President Bush a day before the Nov. 7, 2006 election.
According to a stamp on the letter, Bush's office acknowledged receipt the next day, as voters were going to the polls. Bush announced Rumsfeld's departure a day later, after the massive anti-war vote that swept Democrats into control of the House and Senate.
The elusive letter — which the Pentagon denied existed as recently as April — surfaced this week in response to multiple Freedom of Information Act requests by The Associated Press.
But it sheds no light on why Rumsfeld believed he should leave his post after directing the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan for nearly five years.
Instead Rumsfeld, in his last paragraph, says only, "It is time to conclude my service."
Further cutting-edge investigative journalism from the AP also reveals that Rumsfeld did not once use the words 'kumquat', 'ballista' or 'Zamboanga' and that, most shockingly of all, made no reference to Paris Hilton, Britney Spears (or her beaver ) or Spiderman 3.
By jpg, Thursday, 16 August , 2007 @ 3:30 pm
“Massive anti-war vote,” huh? I keep asking leftists which pro-war dems defeated incumbent repubs. I haven’t found any yet. Dems who knocked off incumbent repubs played themselves as conservatives. Another meme that gets repeated over and over by the leftist media. Color me surprised. JPG