HUH?

[docwebster]

An Americas.org Q & A on Haiti, includes Defense Secretary Rumsfeld's clarification of the U.S. position: "We have no plans to do anything. By that, I don't mean we have no plans. Obviously, we have plans to do everything in the world that we can think of. But we -- there's no intention at the present time, or no reason to believe, that any of the thinking that goes into these things year in and year out would have to be utilized."

Everybody got that? *blink*

Comments

[amberfox.livejournal.com]

*blinks and looks unsure* I think so.... I wouldn't want there to be a quiz, though.

[allah-sulu.livejournal.com]

It means that the military has contingency plans for everything -- there's probably not a country in the world that we don't have plans and studies for somewhere. The idea is that when a problem does come up, it's too late to start from scratch making plans and studies for what to do. So, it would not have been honest to say that we have "no plans" to invade Haiti -- we probably have a few different plans and options in a filing cabinet somewhere in the Pentagon. But we aren't actually planning to use those plans...

Did that help? I understand some militarese.

[pagawne.livejournal.com]

It should be good for the roses. Basicly it sounds like he is saying, "we do have plans, but I am not going to tell you." Perhaps he and the shrub are waiting for a message from God.

[femakita.livejournal.com]

WTF?

[alryssa.livejournal.com]

*blank stare*

Oh, for the love of...

Proud to be a Merkin

[fernblatt.livejournal.com]

ahem

There is some mildly interesting anti-shrub propaganda here: www.bushflash.com

Are any of you-uns members of the bush_sucks? Fun community, that.

[ministerofsilly.livejournal.com]

Rummy is one of those gifted individuals that can talk for 10 minutes straight without saying a god...damned...thing...