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Tucker Carlson: "Iraq not Rumsfeld's fault" « Thread Started

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Tucker Carlson: "Iraq not Rumsfeld's fault" « Thread Started

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Tucker Carlson: "Iraq not Rumsfeld's fault" « Thread Started on Jun 4, 2006, 4:24am »--------------------------------------------------------------------------------Tucker Carlson: "Iraq not Rumsfeld's fault" All 8 messages in topic - view as tree From: Smell Of Bush? DEATH - view profile Date: Sat, Jun 3 2006 9:37 am Email: " Smell Of Bush? DEATH" <s...@bush.net> Groups: alt.california, alt.politics.usa, alt.rush-limbaugh, alt.fan.air-america, alt.politics, alt.fan.rush-limbaugh, alt.society.liberalism Not yet ratedRating: show optionsdiscussion source: http://groups.google.com/group/alt.poli ... 6e4a8Reply | Reply to Author | Forward | Print | Individual Message | Show original | Report Abuse | Find messages by this author Carlson: "Iraq policy" not "Rumsfeld's fault" because he was just "executing policy that was dreamed up by other people" Summary: On MSNBC's Scarborough Country, Tucker Carlson said problems with "Iraq policy" are not Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld's "fault" because Rumsfeld was "executing policy that was dreamed up by other people." The functions of the Secretary of Defense, according to the Department of Defense's Organization and Functions Guidebook:The Secretary of Defense is the principal defense policy advisor to the President and is responsible for the formulation of general defense policy and policy related to all matters of direct and primary concern to the DoD, and for the execution of approved policy. Under the direction of the President, the Secretary exercises authority, direction, and control over the Department of Defense. http://mediamatters.org/rd?http://www.d ... p/pubs/G... SCARBOROUGH: Tucker Carlson, should Donald Rumsfeld be fired? CARLSON: I think a lot of the hostility here is misplaced. You know, people are angry about our Iraq policy; I'm one of them; I'm angry about our Iraq policy. But that's not Rumsfeld's fault, in the end. He didn't dream up the invasion of Iraq. He doesn't have the power to execute it. That's something the president did. That's also something members of Congress endorsed by their vote in the run-up to war. Those are the people you ought to be angry at. I do think General [Barry] McCaffrey is absolutely right: He showed bad judgment, really, from day one, when he made these sort of light-hearted statements about the looting in Baghdad, the disorder that broke out, that we've never really gotten under control since then. He clearly has some judgment problems, but, from a macro point of view, this is not his fault. He was executing policy that was dreamed up by other people. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Blix warns of WMD vicious circle « Thread Started on Jun 4, 2006, 4:29am »--------------------------------------------------------------------------------Blix warns of WMD vicious circle All 5 messages in topic - view as treediscussion source: http://groups.google.com/group/alt.poli ... 1a477eBlix warns of WMD vicious circle David Batty Friday June 2, 2006 http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,, ... 00.htmlThe US must abandon its "war on terror" to prevent the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, according to the former United Nations' chief weapons inspector, Hans Blix,. The US foreign policy of pre-emptive strikes against any perceived weapons of mass destruction (WMD) threat, its development of new types of nuclear weapons and the "Star Wars" missile defence shield risked fuelling a new global arms race, said Dr Blix. Dr Blix's warning came in a report, released yesterday, proposing ways to bring about global nuclear, biological and chemical disarmament. The report by the independent international Weapons of Mass Destruction Commission (WMDC) said the September 11 terrorist attacks and the subsequent war on terror have led to the stagnation and abandonment of international cooperation on WMD monitoring and disarmament. In what will be seen as thinly veiled reference to the 2003 Iraq war, the report said unilateral military action had failed to stem the threat of WMD, with the cost of many lives. Dr Blix, the commission's chairman, led the team of UN inspectors investigating Iraq's arms programmes prior to the US-led invasion. He said the American pre-emptive strike policy breached the UN's founding charter. The two-year investigation by the commission also called on all existing nuclear powers to refrain from developing new types of nuclear weapons. The Pentagon wants to build a new generation of nuclear bunker-busters and "mini-nukes", although US Congress has blocked the plans. The commission proposed holding a world summit on disarmament, non-proliferation and the threat of WMD terrorism, at the United Nations in New York, to reinvigorate international diplomacy to tackle these issues. It also recommended extending and toughening the UN's weapons inspection programmes. Its report said the international community, including major military powers such as the USA, Russia and China, should develop new strategies to ensure international security without the use or possession of WMD. The US should also stop testing nuclear weapons to encourage more countries, particularly India and Pakistan, to sign up and comply with the UN's test-ban treaty, the report added. Dr Blix said: "Bringing the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty into force would significantly impede the development of new nuclear weapons. The weapons that exist today are bad enough. "Negotiating a global treaty to stop the production of fissile material for weapons would close the tap for new such material and help hinder possible arms races - notably in Asia. "In both these areas the US has the decisive leverage. If it takes the lead the world is likely to follow. If it does not take the lead, there could be more nuclear tests and new nuclear arms races." The commission noted that governments and world opinion were paying less attention to global treaties on arms control and disarmament partly because these agreements had failed to prevent terrorism such as the attacks on New York in 2001. In addition, they did not prevent North Korea from developing nuclear bombs. But it said there was reason to believe international cooperation could increase, as the number of armed conflicts between countries was steadily declining. Agreements to tighten the storage, disposal and transportation of nuclear, chemical and biological material could reduce the risk of terrorist groups or rogue states from acquiring WMD capability, noted the report. The commission called on Iran to resume cooperation with the UN nuclear watchdog, the International Atomic Energy Agency, to allow inspection of its nuclear programme. It also said Iran, Egypt and Israel, which already has nuclear weapons, should commit to the Middle East being a nuclear free zone. -- "Science is the record of dead religions." -- Oscar Wilde "There are no absolute certainties in this universe. A man must try to whip order into a yelping pack of probabilities, and uniform success is impossible." -- Jack Vance "Civilization is the interval between Ice Ages." -- Will Durant. "War is God's way of teaching Americans geography" -- Ambrose Bierce "Progress is the increasing control of the environment by life. --Will Durant Joseph R. 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