At 10:08 PM 7/8/2004 -0700 Davd Brin wrote: >And to prove I am not a doctrinaire liberal (unlike >you doctrinaire republicans) I am PROUD of >Afghanistan. In an emergency, Rumsfeld and Cheney got >out of the way of the professionals and let them do >their jobs there.
This is not true. Rumsfeld played a strong role in developing the unprecedented battle plan for Afghanistan, in particular the heavy reliance upon special forces as opposed to regular army troops. JDG _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l