Rumsfeld comments

The new theme of the military establishment, judging by Secretary Rumsfeld's briefing yesterday, is that "this is their country". Brit Hume (FoxNews) pointed this out in the report on the briefing, playing 5-6 clips of Rumsfeld saying pretty much the same thing over and over again. As a side note ... Rumsfeld did say the same thing using different words, so once again the Republicans prove that they are not quite as good a parroting as the mindless Democrats are.

The one interesting thing that I got out of this was Rumsfeld's comments about us doing it for the Iraqis vs. letting them do it themselves. In a response to one of the questions about troop strength, he responded that we don't WANT the US Military to do all of the work if we can give the Iraqis a shot at doing it ... even if they are not as good as we are ... because they need the experiences, training opportunities, and CONFIDENCE to solve their own problems. One can certainly see where the slow progress (liberal perception, at least, the progress in Iraq has been OUTSTANDING in any historical context) can at least partially be attributed to the fact that we are allowing the Iraqis as big of a role as we possibly can.

The question that I have is ... exactly why did it take until now for the Administration to finally start SAYING these things? I mean ... this is so obvious, particularly to anybody that has a good business (delegation) or even raising children. Instead of President Bush constantly harping on "hard work", "hard work", "hard work" ... PUUUUUKKKKEEEEE! Why was he not instead emphasizing the simple theme of "do for themselves"?

Again, hopefully we will continue to hear this theme throughout Republican circles to help undo the damage that the garbage from the liberals has created.