New Stalinberg
26-10-2005, 03:34
Dear Secretary Rumsfeld,
I believe that you are causing unnecessary deaths of our soldiers in Iraq, and should resign from your position as secretary of defense.
When Sergeant Butler, a decorated 44-year-old marine who had previously fought in the first Gulf War declined orders, he probably had a very good reason for doing it.
And he did; his mission was to transport oil that wasn’t even useable across 200 miles in highly visible trucks without any armor crawling along at 40 miles per hour. These men and women were being put in unnecessary danger, and I’m sure they would have done the mission if they just had for adequate armor and equipment.
Mr. Rumsfeld, if you think that the military humvees are the optimal vehicle for this war, why do you ride around in Haliburton limo, which denies its specifications to the general public? Don’t you understand that these brave men and women are dieing for their country? Do you even care about them? I think that if your Haliburton is good enough for you, it should be good enough for everyone else. In your defense, you stated that, “… if you think about it, you can have all the armor in the world on a tank and a tank can be blown up. And you can have an up-armored humvee and it can be blown up.” If this is the case, then why don’t you ride around in an unarmored humvee if you think that armor is so pointless?
You were planning the invasion of Iraq for two years, and when you declare why the soldiers don’t have armor on their humvees, you said “As you know, you go to war with the army you have. They’re not the army you might want or wish to have at a later time.” This would be plausible if Saddam attacked us first. But he didn’t. You were the one who decided to invade his country, so why didn’t you see this coming?
On top of all this, I think that you had a poorly constructed plan for our occupational forces. “You know, you read an awful lot in the paper about different countries disagreeing on various things and there’s a tendency, I think, for the press to play up controversy and differences. But the reality is that since September 11th, the United States of America has put together a coalition of something like 85 or 90 nations, probably the largest coalition in the history of mankind. We have had somewhere – we’ve had somewhere between 25 and 30 countries helping in Afghanistan and Iraq. Those are the largest numbers of nations.” Well Mr. Rumsfeld, as far as I know, our only major ally fighting in Iraq is the United Kingdom. Everyone else sends us the bare minimum. You said that 25 to 30 nations are helping us? As the Secretary of Defense, shouldn’t you know the exact number? And what about the other 65 to 70 nations? What exactly are they doing to help us? I can’t believe that it took you over two years to slap this “grand” coalition together. I’m almost positive that I, a fifteen-year-old in the 9th grade, could do a far superior job than you.
Since you seem to be so incompetent at your job, do the whole country, no, the whole world a favor, and resign from your current position.
That's my letter, if anyone has any ideas to make them better then go for it.
EDIT: I fixed a few errors.
EDIT: Here are my sources
http://www.dod.mil/transcripts/2004/tr20041208-secdef1761.htm.
http://www.villagevoice.com/news0443,robbins,57856,1.html
I believe that you are causing unnecessary deaths of our soldiers in Iraq, and should resign from your position as secretary of defense.
When Sergeant Butler, a decorated 44-year-old marine who had previously fought in the first Gulf War declined orders, he probably had a very good reason for doing it.
And he did; his mission was to transport oil that wasn’t even useable across 200 miles in highly visible trucks without any armor crawling along at 40 miles per hour. These men and women were being put in unnecessary danger, and I’m sure they would have done the mission if they just had for adequate armor and equipment.
Mr. Rumsfeld, if you think that the military humvees are the optimal vehicle for this war, why do you ride around in Haliburton limo, which denies its specifications to the general public? Don’t you understand that these brave men and women are dieing for their country? Do you even care about them? I think that if your Haliburton is good enough for you, it should be good enough for everyone else. In your defense, you stated that, “… if you think about it, you can have all the armor in the world on a tank and a tank can be blown up. And you can have an up-armored humvee and it can be blown up.” If this is the case, then why don’t you ride around in an unarmored humvee if you think that armor is so pointless?
You were planning the invasion of Iraq for two years, and when you declare why the soldiers don’t have armor on their humvees, you said “As you know, you go to war with the army you have. They’re not the army you might want or wish to have at a later time.” This would be plausible if Saddam attacked us first. But he didn’t. You were the one who decided to invade his country, so why didn’t you see this coming?
On top of all this, I think that you had a poorly constructed plan for our occupational forces. “You know, you read an awful lot in the paper about different countries disagreeing on various things and there’s a tendency, I think, for the press to play up controversy and differences. But the reality is that since September 11th, the United States of America has put together a coalition of something like 85 or 90 nations, probably the largest coalition in the history of mankind. We have had somewhere – we’ve had somewhere between 25 and 30 countries helping in Afghanistan and Iraq. Those are the largest numbers of nations.” Well Mr. Rumsfeld, as far as I know, our only major ally fighting in Iraq is the United Kingdom. Everyone else sends us the bare minimum. You said that 25 to 30 nations are helping us? As the Secretary of Defense, shouldn’t you know the exact number? And what about the other 65 to 70 nations? What exactly are they doing to help us? I can’t believe that it took you over two years to slap this “grand” coalition together. I’m almost positive that I, a fifteen-year-old in the 9th grade, could do a far superior job than you.
Since you seem to be so incompetent at your job, do the whole country, no, the whole world a favor, and resign from your current position.
That's my letter, if anyone has any ideas to make them better then go for it.
EDIT: I fixed a few errors.
EDIT: Here are my sources
http://www.dod.mil/transcripts/2004/tr20041208-secdef1761.htm.
http://www.villagevoice.com/news0443,robbins,57856,1.html