Rumsfeld: US Media Manipulated By bin Laden and Zarqawi...

Can you believe this, now the US media are being controlled by the Terrorists, maybe you are not paying them enough Rummy, better start handing out the packages, that are paid out to Rush boy and the other sicko Hannity.

Think Progress April 18, 2006 at 10:55 AM
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Yesterday on Rush Limbaugh, embattled Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld said that those who criticize the Iraq war are being manipulated by terrorists, including Zarqawi and bin Laden, through the U.S. media:

There have always been people who have opposed wars...I think we just have to accept it, that people have a right to say what they want to say, and to have an acceptance of that and recognize that the terrorists, Zarqawi and bin Laden and Zawahiri, those people have media committees.

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David Broder On Calls For Rumsfeld's Resignation: "Even In Vietnam... We Saw No Such Open Defiance"...
The Washington Post David Broder April 18, 2006 at 08:23 AM
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Several months ago, when Rep. John Murtha, the Marine Corps veteran and longtime Democratic advocate for military preparedness, spoke out on the Iraq war, I received an interesting phone call from the Pentagon. When Murtha advocated a fundamental reassessment of American strategy in the war, including an early redeployment of U.S. troops to neighboring countries, I noted that he had spent many hours visiting wounded veterans of that war at Walter Reed and Bethesda Naval hospitals. A warmhearted, emotional man, Murtha was responding, I suggested, to what he had experienced in those hospital wards.

The unsolicited caller from the Pentagon identified himself by name and rank, then said, "This is a private call. I am not speaking officially. But I read your column, and I think it is important for you to know that Jack Murtha knows us very well and speaks for many of us."

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