Rumsfeld: Afghanistan a Huge Success

**CHUQ** · Agitator Thanks: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts votes: 3

Did I miss somethiung in the news? Apparently, I do not get the same info that he gets.

NEW YORK - In an interview billed as his first since leaving the top Pentagon post, Donald Rumsfeld calls Afghanistan "a big success," but says U.S. efforts in Iraq are hampered by the failure of Iraq's government to establish a foundation for democracy.

"In Afghanistan, 28 million people are free. They have their own president, they have their own parliament. Improved a lot on the streets," Rumsfeld says in the October issue of GQ magazine.

While "that's been a big success," he said, the Baghdad regime "has not been able to ... create an environment hospitable to whatever one wants to call their evolving way of life, a democracy or a representative system, or a freer system. And it's going to take some time and some effort."

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**Tumbleweed** · Admin Thanks: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts votes: 4

Rummy must be off his meds again. Rolling Eyes

The only big success I see is for poppy growers. They had another record crop. Laughing

**CHUQ** · Agitator Thanks: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts votes: 3

Rummy now works for the Hoover Institute, a conserv think tank. Maybe he is preparing the media for a new report that he will offer.