Rumsfeld - Incompetence


	Rumsfeld - Incompetence

earnric

5-21-2009 4:56 PM

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government, dod, rumsfeld

earnric says:

Give the article a read... More and more evidence points to this idiot as the force behind many of the blunders of the last administration.

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