Rumsfeld in Bagdad -- a moment from "White Christmas"

[Auggie27]

Posted: 5/13/04 at 12:11pm

There's nothin' that warms the cockles like seeing an old struttin'****surveying his troops. For some reason, I can't shake the image of Dean Jagger, "...the old man..." the cantankerous old coot who provokes tears of nostalgia among the enlisted fellas crashin' at the Inn in "White Christmas."

I know we'll see lots of photo ops on the evening news. I want to see him hugging a big ol attack dog, or vice versa.

[mominator]

Posted: 5/13/04 at 12:56pm

Ahhh! Photo ops aren't they the best!

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 5/13/04 at 1:00pm

Maureen Dowd: "George Bush, who swept into office on a cloud of moral umbrage, now has his own sex scandal — one with far greater implications than titillating cigar jokes.

"The Bush hawks, so fixated on making the Middle East look more like America, have made America look un-American. Should we really be reduced to defending ourselves by saying at least we don't behead people?"
full article here

Updated On: 5/13/04 at 01:00 PM

[Auggie27]

Posted: 5/13/04 at 3:03pm

Thanks, Namo. I excerpted the same Dowd quotes in the "disturbing pictures" thread.

My favorite Rummy quote from this trip: "I've stopped reading newspapers ... I'm a survivor." Proudly NOT reading has helped his big boss in the White House, so why not? Anyway, we know there are no real problems, no mistakes made -- just ugly stuff concocted by the America-hating and exploitive liberal media. (Curiously, the NY Post -- a right wing mouthpiece -- cannot resist exploiting this tale to make a buck.)

Interesting that Rusmfeld has been carefully kept at a safe distance from any of those people his leadership has freed -- the Iraqis. He must not need any fresh flowers throw his way, not this week. He was surrounded by Americans, except for a handful of Arab journalists, and many outside the prison got the strange idea he visited Iraq soley on a propaganda spreading mission. Well! What cynics those ungrateful Iraqis have turned out to be! I guess like Rummy, they avoid whatever is said to be "survivors..."

Updated On: 5/13/04 at 03:03 PM

[MasterLcZ]

Posted: 5/14/04 at 7:24am

Auggie, I noted that about the Post this week, with the headlines squealing with glee over Lydie Englands "nude sex prison frolics"!!!

[rlbgbc]

Posted: 5/14/04 at 9:43am

In homage to Dean Jagger, Rummy, Irving Berlin, Vera-Ellen, and Mary Wickes, here are the lyrics to that song the troops sang to Dean in WHITE CHRISTMAS. It absolutely makes me vibrate to picture this being sung to Rummy while he's in Bagdad....



We'll follow the old man wherever he wants to go,
As long as he wants to go,
Opposite to the foe.
We'll follow the old man wherever he wants to stay,
Long as he stays we'll win the battle fray.

Because we love him, we love him
Especially when he keeps us on the ball,
And we'll tell the kiddies we answer duty's call,
With grandest son of a soldier of them all.

[redhotinnyc2]

Posted: 5/14/04 at 10:47am

I always cry when they sing that to him - don't they do a reprise of it at the end of the film? its so touching...

[Auggie27]

Posted: 5/14/04 at 11:32am

Thank you, Rlbgbc. You have underscored the image most effectively. Condi Rice in the Mary Wickes role?