Correspondence
Correspondence Defending the DOD William Kristol's "huffing and puffing" (Oct. 23) manipulates secretary of defense Donald Rumsfeid's comments at a recent press conference and misleads your...
...That's certainly one speech I will never forget...
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...Ex-Page Speaks Frankly Charles Krauthammer adeptly articulates the absurdity of the Mark Foiey scandal("Sex Scandals and Double Standards," Oct: 16) by demonstrating the double standards that plague the House of Representatives...
...Kristol quotes at length from the october 11 press conference during which the secretary opened his remarks by noting the sixth anniversary of the terrorist attack on the USS Cole...
...Indeed, a few days earlier, the secretary noted at another press event that "the international community's going to have to do a lot better or else face a world that will be quite different, with multiple nuclear nations and . . . the added risk of these very lethal weapons falling into the hands of nonstate entities...
...The secretary then moved into a discussion of the threat posed by North Korea...
...A full transcript of the secretary's comments in both press conferences—absent Kristol's commentary—is available at www.defenselink.mil/transcripts...
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...Frank speak at our graduation...
...Rumsfeld discusses the need for the cooperation of the international community on stopping North Korea— to answer a question the secretary was never asked...
...Kristol interrupts Secretary Rumsfeld's remarks by interjecting a question, asking, "But on the sixth anniversary of the attack on the USS Cole, what are we doing about these threats and trends...
...If anything, in fact, the secretary's comments on the international community could be read as exactly the opposite of what Kristol implies...
...But instead of the typical graduation speech, we were privileged to listen to his justification of why his male prostitution ring was acceptable to him and to other Democratic members of Congress...
...Dorrance Smith Assistant Secretary of Defense for Public Affairs Washington, D.C...
...has provided the "first-ever english edition of Chekhov's Complete Plays," but in the late 1990s Smith and Kraus published Chekhov's complete dramatic works, translated by Carol Rocamora in three volumes...
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...Though it may strike some as odd that Kristol takes issue with the notion of the "need to cooperate with others," Secretary Rumsfeld said nothing of the sort...
...His discussion of the international community pertained specifically to the president's policy on North Korea, not our reaction to the Cole bombing or other terrorist attacks...
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...As a former congressional page (class of '89), I had to endure the Barney Frank scandal...
...Lara Stead Barrera Warrenton, Va...
...Kristol conducts this misleading parsing of Secretary Rumsfeld's statement so that he can make his point that, in his words, "the lesson Rumsfeld takes from the USS Cole, and all that happened since, is this: "We're dependent on the 'international community' and we need to cooperate with others" (emphasis added...
...23) manipulates secretary of defense Donald Rumsfeid's comments at a recent press conference and misleads your readers...
...My page class also had the wonderful opportunity of listening to Rep...
...Correction Algis Valiunas suggests in "A Russian Master" (Sept 25) that W.W...
...He then proceeds to use the rest of the secretary's remarks—in which Mr...
Vol. 12 • November 2006 • No. 8
