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Friday, September 10, 2004 1:01 p.m. EDT
Secretary Rumsfeld's Speech at the National Press Club
MR. DONNELLY: Good afternoon, and welcome to the National Press Club. My name is John Donnelly. I'm a reporter with Congressional Quarterly and I'm chairman of the Press Club Board of Governors.
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On Monday, September 20th, Secretary John Snow, U.S. Department of the Treasury. Tuesday, September 21st, Hector V. Barreto, administrator, Small Business Administration. Friday, September 24th, President Obasanjo of Nigeria will be our guest at a special evening newsmaker event.
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If you have any questions for our speaker, please write them on the cards provided at your table and pass them up to me. I will ask as many as time permits.
I'd now like to introduce our head table guests and ask each to stand briefly when their names are called. Please hold your applause until all head table guests are introduced.
From your right, Bernd Debusmann, editor, political and general news for the Americas, for Reuters; Ivan Scott, Pentagon correspondent, WTOP Radio; Marc Heller, Washington correspondent, Watertown Daily News -- Daily Times -- forgive me; Robert T. Hartmann, former Washington bureau chief, Los Angeles Times, and former counselor to President Gerald Ford; Samantha Young, Washington Correspondent, Stephens Media Group; Eric Rosenberg, national correspondent, Hearst Newspapers; Askiya Mohammed (ph), White House correspondent, National Scene News Bureau; Clayton Boyce, a freelance journalist, former president of the National Press Club and vice chairman of the club's Speakers Committee. And skipping over our speaker: Katherine M. Skiba, Washington correspondent, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, and the Speakers Committee member who arranged today's luncheon. Thank you, Katherine. Tammy Lytle, Washington bureau chief, the Orlando Sentinel, and former president of the National Press Club; Jack Cushman, editor, Washington Bureau, New York Times, and also a former president of the club; Carly Weeks, an intern with the Washington Center for Politics and Journalism, and the Globe and Mail; and finally, Susan Page, Washington bureau chief of USA Today. (Applause.)
On the eve of the third anniversary of the September 11th, 2001, terror attacks against the United States, it is with great pleasure that we welcome Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld to the National Press Club, where he was the guest of honor at a newsmaker luncheon precisely one year ago.
Secretary Rumsfeld has the distinction of serving as both the youngest and oldest Defense secretary in the history of the United States. (Laughter.)
RUMSFELD: That's a distinction? (Laughter.)
DONNELLY: (Laughs.) When Gerald Ford picked Donald Rumsfeld to be the 13th secretary of Defense in 1975, Rumsfeld was 43 years old. And when he became the 21st Defense secretary, under George W. Bush, in January 2001, he was 69.
Now, 1977 was a long time ago, and for that matter, January 2001 now seems like a long time ago as well. Donald Rumsfeld has led the U.S. armed forces into two wars in the aftermath of September 11th. His name forever will be associated with managing the Department of Defense during some of the most perilous times this nation has faced.
Donald Henry Rumsfeld was born in Evanston, Illinois 72 years ago to successful realtor George Rumsfeld and his wife, Jeanette. The young Rumsfeld was an Eagle Scout and energetic, said to have held 20- odd jobs in his youth, from gardening to delivering newspapers. It's also said that his interest in politics and the world around him may be traced the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, when the 9-year-old Rumsfeld watched his father put aside his career to join the Navy.
Rumsfeld attended Princeton University on academic and Naval ROTC scholarships. He captained the wrestling and football teams there in the early 1950s. After Princeton, Rumsfeld, like his father, served in the Navy. He was an aviator and flight instructor in the wake of the Korean War.
After his years in active duty, Rumsfeld worked as an aide on Capitol Hill and later as an investment broker. In 1962, at the age of 30, he won a seat in Congress from a Chicago district, and he retained that seat in three subsequent elections. Early on he was one the capital's up and comers.
In 1969 he resigned his House seat to work in Richard Nixon's White House, first as director of the Office of Economic Opportunity and ultimately at U.S. ambassador to NATO. Next he chaired President Gerald R. Ford's transition team and became his chief of staff; a staff, by the way, that included a gentleman named Dick Cheney.
Then, as I mentioned, President Ford appointed Rumsfeld secretary of Defense, where he served for 14 months ending in 1977. He made a name for himself by building up the military and opposing the SALT II strategic arms reduction treaty.
Secretary Rumsfeld has been called many things: charming, charismatic, iron-jawed, savvy, no-nonsense, and maybe a few others. His colleagues from his first tenure as Defense secretary characterize him as a highly organized and highly political person. Henry Kissinger, then-secretary of State, said in his memoir that Rumsfeld was, quote, "a special Washington phenomenon: the skilled, full-time politician bureaucrat in whom ambition, ability and substance fused seamlessly."
In the presidential election of 1976, when Ford lost to Jimmy Carter, Donald Rumsfeld the public servant became a captain of industry. From 1977 to '85 he worked as CEO, president and chairman of the global pharmaceutical giant G.D. Searle and Company and later the General Instrument Corporation. The stocks of both those firms soared under his stewardship.
But he was never far from the political scene. He flirted with a presidential run in 1988, he chaired the bipartisan Missile Threat Commission in 1998, and more.
With the election of George W. Bush in 2000, Rumsfeld was picked again to run the Pentagon. He launched an effort to create a leaner, more mobile military, able to meet threats that often, he said presciently, cannot be precisely predicted.
He met with a little resistance, it's fair to say, from the Defense establishment, as he still is. By the summer of 2001, the sniping from the resisters was such that some predicted Rumsfeld will be the first Bush II Cabinet secretary to step down.
Then came September 11th. The secretary of Defense became a secretary of War. The transformation began with his decision to help people in the rubble of the Pentagon that bright, clear day. It continued as he led military operations against the Taliban, beginning in late 2001, and then, starting last year, in the ongoing struggle in Iraq.
At the fall of Baghdad last year, Secretary Rumsfeld exulted that Hussein had taken his right place in the pantheon of failed brutal dictators and predicted that the Iraqi people were well on their way to freedom.
But since then, Donald Rumsfeld has heard his share of criticism. The two leading reasons given by the administration for toppling Saddam Hussein -- the gathering threat from his weapons of mass destruction and his connections to terrorism -- have proven to be almost entirely untrue. This past week, U.S. military deaths since the March 2003 invasion of Iraq climbed past 1,000, and injuries reached near 7,000. Several parts of Iraq are run by insurgents, not coalition forces.
Two and a half weeks ago, a high-level panel led by former Defense Secretary James Schlesinger told the press about its investigation of the Abu Ghraib prisoner abuses in Iraq. Schlesinger said that senior Pentagon officials sowed confusion about what kinds of interrogation techniques would be permitted and delayed for months dispatching reinforcements to help U.S. guards at Abu Ghraib. Furthermore, the panel said, Secretary Rumsfeld and his aides had failed in not anticipating and responding swiftly to the post-invasion insurgency in Iraq.
But Schlesinger answered no, resoundingly, when asked whether Secretary Rumsfeld or other high-ranking Pentagon officials should resign. Schlesinger said such a decision would be, quote, "a boon for all of America's enemies."
Here to discuss these and other issues, and to give a progress report on the global war on terror, I am delighted to present to you Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld. (Applause.)
RUMSFELD: Thank you, sir. Thank you very much. Thank you very much.
John, those at the head table, my friend Bob Hartmann from the Ford administration days -- good to see you -- ladies and gentlemen, good afternoon. It's good to be here again.
I always worry about correcting an introduction. (Laughter.) But I shall do so. The biggest worry is that if you correct one part of it, you seem to be endorsing the rest of it. And I want to point out that I am going to correct only one thing, and it does not mean an endorsement of the rest. (Light laughter.)
John indicated that I was captain of the wrestling team in Princeton -- (laughter) -- and captain of the football team. It turns out I was captain of the wrestling team, and I was also captain of a football team, but it was not the varsity team. It was the 150-pound football team. (Laughter.) And I wouldn't want anyone here to go away thinking I was big enough to play with the big boys.
Q: (Off mike.)
RUMSFELD: (Chuckles.)
Tomorrow we will commemorate the third anniversary of the terrorist attacks against our country on September 11th, 2001. But today I want to talk about a different anniversary and take a moment to consider what was happening, where we were, what many folks thought about our world, not on the 11th, but on the 10th of September three years ago.
There are those who might be tempted to think that if we would only pull back, if our country would only withdraw from this global struggle against extremists and let events abroad run their course, let those folks go about their business, that somehow the combat, the conflict, the ugliness on our TV screens and newspapers would go away, and that we could return to that more comforting time that preceded the September 11th attacks.
But if you think about it, that's not the way the world really was before September 11th. Consider the world of September 10th and before. Two Americans and six others stood on trial by the Taliban in Afghanistan for the crime of preaching their religion. The leader of the opposition Northern Alliance, Massoud, lay dead, his murder ordered by Saddam Hussein -- by Osama bin Laden, Taliban's co- conspirator. An Iraqi newspaper put out by Saddam Hussein's son Uday called on European corporations to pressure their governments to break with the United States and Britain, so that the sanctions would be lifted.
Meanwhile, the Iraqis were bragging about having shot down a U.S. drone in late August. Iraqi Deputy Prime Minister Tariq Aziz vowed that Iraq would inflict losses on the U.S. and Britain -- that were flying in the southern and northern no-fly zones. Our planes were being shot at every week. Libya's undeclared nuclear weapons program proceeded apace, with technologies and materials being supplied in part, at least, by a network -- a secret network headed by the rogue, A.Q. Khan, a man who also aided the nuclear programs of North Korea and Iran and possibly others. All of this was before September 11th.
Closer to home, a man named Hani Hanjour and his associates checked into a Marriott Residence Inn in Herndon, Virginia, about 20 miles from here, and they would board the American Airlines Flight No. 77 at Dulles the next morning. And in New Jersey, a young Todd Beamer postponed until the following morning a business trip to California because he and his wife Lisa had just returned from Europe and he wanted to spend an extra day with his children.
September 10th, 2001, was not the last day of world innocence. It was, however, the last day of America's lack of understanding of a worldwide extremist movement determined to terrorize, to defeat, to destroy civilized people everywhere.
Consider the world as it stands three years later. The Taliban regime is gone. Those still not killed or captured are on the run. Despite a campaign of violence and intimidation, over 10 million Afghans have registered to vote, including 4 million women, despite the intimidation. And they've registered to vote in what will be the first free election in that country's history.
Saddam Hussein's regime is finished. His sons are dead. He's in a prison cell, where he awaits the justice of the Iraqi people, which he will soon face. Libya has said now that it is renouncing its illicit weapons programs, and it says it will cooperate with the efforts to stop the spread of weapons of mass destruction and that it's seeking to reenter the community of civilized nations. Time will tell, but so far, so good. A.Q. Khan's arms network has been shut down. The Pakistan government is a staunch and courageous ally against extremism and terrorism. And a few short years after Osama bin Laden ridiculed the American soldier as a paper tiger, saying that after a few blows, they run in defeat, the names of Todd Beamer and Pat Tillman and so many other brave Americans live as symbols of our country's courage and determination.
In the last three years, under the leadership of President Bush and the 85 or 90 countries in the coalition, probably the largest coalition in the history of mankind, we've changed strategies, assumptions, and our view of the world.
While some may still find false comfort in the pre-September 11th thinking, our enemies have been living in the September 11th world for a very long time. Al Qaeda, if you think about it, first attacked the World Trade Center not in 2001, but in 1993. Later, attacks against the Air Force barracks in Saudi Arabia, U.S. embassies in East Africa in 1998, the U.S. sailors aboard the USS Cole, and the attacks continue. Since September 11th, extremists using knapsacks, passenger cars, trains, letter openers have killed hundreds more in places like Spain, Turkey, Kenya, Indonesia, and other countries.
We've witnessed the horror of terrorists taking Russian children hostages on their first day of school, resulting in the death of hundreds of children. I don't suppose there's a mother or father in America or anywhere in the world who dropped a child off for the first day of school who did not wonder could that happen to them. The answer is it could, which is why it is so important that in the global war on terror we recognize that we have to fight this battle where the terrorists are rather than waiting for them to force us to fight, God forbid, in our own schools.
And if these enemies of civilized society gain chemical or biological or nuclear weapons -- which they seek, let there be no doubt about it -- it's not inconceivable that an attack on a city here or elsewhere in the world could cause not the 3,000 dead from September 11th -- innocent men, women and children of all faiths -- but of 30,000 or even 300,000.
For the past three-and-a-half years, the Department of Defense has been undertaking efforts to reform and improve the way that our forces -- your forces -- are organized, equipped and positioned to meet the security needs of the 21st century. We're reshaping and modernizing our global force posture away from Cold War obsolescence.
The world has changed markedly since the conflicts of the last century ended, when the Soviet tanks were poised to roll across the North German plain and when South Korea was an impoverished nation devastated by war. But our military arrangements, while having been reduced somewhat, have not changed dramatically. Our forces must be where they're wanted, they have to be where they're needed, and they have to be where they can be deployed quickly, and they have to be deployed without burdensome restriction, legal, political or otherwise.
We're restructuring and transforming our military.
The Army is now led by a forward-looking chief of staff, General Pete Schoomaker. It's significantly increasing the number of agile, more self-sufficient combat brigades available for rapid deployment from 33 up to 43, and possibly to 48. He's rebalancing specialties between the active component and the reserve components, which is so needed, so that National Guard and reservist soldiers will not be called up so often.
We're developing, testing and beginning to deploy limited defenses against ballistic missiles to deter rogue states from attempting to think that they can blackmail America or our friends and allies. And we're updating our existing alliances and building new relationships based on security realities of this new century, and not the last century. Countries like Uzbekistan, Azerbaijan, Yemen, Pakistan, India -- to cite but a few examples -- are now partners in the fight against extremism in the Middle East and in Central Asia.
These reforms and initiatives are so urgent because of the ruthlessness of the enemies we face. Their tactics vary, but their objectives are consistent. The terrorists and the extremists hope to intimidate and to demoralize the American people and our allies with their threats and with their attacks.
I mentioned the schools in Russia and the hundreds of children. But the chopping off of heads on television, on video, so people can see it; taking pliers and pulling tongues out, and cutting them off; chopping off hands; attacking indiscriminately, or maybe I should say discriminately, the most innocent and the most vulnerable for the purpose of terrorizing -- terrorizing to alter behavior on the rest of the people in this world.
They seek to drive our coalition out of the newly liberated countries of Afghanistan and Iraq and to re-impose dictatorial regimes. They will fail; let there be no doubt. And they're conducting a reign of terror against those who represent hope and freedom -- the mayors, the city councilmen, the women who register to vote in Afghanistan, and the volunteers who sign up to join the Iraqi army or the National Guard or the Iraqi police force.
I'm sure you all read about the bus that was stopped by some Taliban near the Pakistan border, and they went through the women's possessions to see if they had registered to vote, and the ones that had registered to vote were killed.
No one should underestimate the powerful impact of human freedom. Today Iraqis are among those in our globe who are allowed to say what they want and go where they want and write and watch and listen to whatever they want when they want to do it, and to criticize their own government. Governments and people throughout the Middle East are taking notice of that. The assassins and the terrorists we are fighting know that the rise of a free, self-governing Afghanistan and a free, self-governing Iraq will give powerful momentum to reformers throughout the region and it will discredit their extremist ideology.
Free people battled their kind before in struggles against dictators, fascists, communists of the last century. Freedom has always required sacrifice. And, regrettably, it has always cost lives. The attack on Pearl Harbor alone claimed the lives of some 2,400 Americans on one day. Roughly 400,000 more American troops would be killed before they overcame repeated defeats in those early years of World War II and demoralizing setbacks to eventually achieve victory years later.
I mention this because we've now lost over 1,100 Americans in the global war on terror -- in Iraq, in Afghanistan, elsewhere on the globe. The reality is that as advanced as our capabilities are, the truth is that war is ugly and it takes lives.
It's important to keep in mind that the civilized world passed the 1,000th casualty mark at the hands of extremists long ago; I mean, 3,000 on September 11th alone; in a series of attacks that included the bombing of our embassies and military barracks. It was the murder of so many and the destruction of so much in one morning on our soil three years ago that brought home what we're up against in this ongoing struggle.
As long as we continue our mission, as long as we work to change terrorists' way of life before they succeed in changing our way of life, as long as we avoid a return to the false comfort of September 10th, 2001, victory will come, just as it has in conflicts in the past.
For all of the enemy's ruthlessness -- and it is total, there is nothing they will not do, indeed there is nothing they have not done -- we have an enormous advantage. I say "we." I don't mean the people of the United States; I mean the people in the 85 or 90 nations across the globe that are cooperating in this effort, in this war against -- this struggle against extremism. And the advantage is that the great sweep of human history is for freedom. And that is on our side.
I'll be happy to respond to some questions. (Applause.)
DONNELLY: Thank you very much, Mr. Secretary.
We do have a few questions, and I've grouped them first of all into questions about Iraq. The first is, when will the U.S. military attack the insurgents and others in the enclaves such as Fallujah? Won't delaying this house cleaning obstruct the January elections in Iraq?
RUMSFELD: The Iraqi government and certainly the coalition military understand fully that you cannot over a sustained period of time allow portions of that country to be under the control of people who are using it to kill Iraqis, which they are killing a great number of -- the extremists, the former regime elements, the terrorists -- or to kill coalition forces or to try to kill and damage the new Iraqi government. The Iraqi government understands that. The coalition understands that.
The process they're engaged in is one where they are attempting different approaches. And in Najaf they had a choice. They could have gone in and taken over the town; had the military power to do it, let there be no doubt. Indeed, they were very close to having to do that, to believing they had to do that. And they had Iraqi forces ready to take care of the shrines in Najaf so that the coalition forces would not have to do it, but the coalition forces would be right behind them and that they would have successfully retaken the city. It turned out they didn't have to. The fact that it was clear to Sadr and his crowd, the militia, that they did have the ability to do that is what without question led Sadr to encourage his militia to get out of town and turn in their weapons, and as a result Najaf has been taken back peacefully.
There are other places that will be taken by force, and it's really going to be a choice between the people in those towns -- and I don't mean the innocent Iraqi people, the overwhelming majority of which support the government and don't want to see their towns ruined, taken over by terrorists and militias. What will take place in Fallujah is -- correction, we know what will take place in Fallujah, and that is that it will be restored as a -- something under the control of the Iraqi government eventually. What we don't know is whether it will be done peacefully or by force. But one way or another, it will happen.
DONNELLY: How confident are you, Mr. Secretary, that general elections will be held in Iraq in January?
RUMSFELD: Well, I'm one of those people who has been around long enough to not make hard predictions or dates -- set dates or numbers of costs, and those types of things, because every time I watch people do it, turns out they're wrong. So I'll be very careful.
The Iraqi government is determined to have the elections take place on time. The United States government is determined to have those elections take place on time. The elections are being administered by the United Nations. There's no question but between now and the end of the year, the terrorists are determined to try to prevent the elections from taking place, and from taking place on time. And they will, without a doubt in my mind, increase the level of violence between now and then, and they'll attempt to attack coalition countries to see if they can get other coalition countries to pull out.
Some countries have elections taking place and there's a big tug of war over whether or not they should stay or whether they should have been there. And the terrorists know that. They're not stupid; they're smart. And they've got brains, and they think, and they watch, and they saw what Spain did. And they thought, my goodness, if we can affect that, maybe we can do something. So they're going to be going after coalition countries; they're going to be looking for weak spots; they're going to be going after people who are running for office. There are going to be Iraqi people who are engaged in that process, and they're going to do their best to try to stop it.
Do I think it will go forward? Yes, I do. I think it will go forward because if you look at any measure -- by any measurement, the Iraqi people want elections. They want to vote. They're determined to vote.
Now, will it be perfect election? Probably not. Will there be places that are -- where the violence is being targeted that will probably prevent people from voting? No, it won't be perfect. But I've never seen an election anywhere that's perfect. There's always a little -- (interrupted by laughter) -- I didn't mean just the outcome. (Laughter.) I meant the process. So I think it will be -- I think it will happen.
DONNELLY: The Financial Times today editorializes that it is, quote, "time to consider Iraq withdrawal," close quote, noting the protracted war is not winnable and it's creating more terrorists than enemies of the West. What is your response, this questioner asks.
RUMSFELD: Who put that question in? He ought to get a life. If he's got time to read that kind of stuff -- (laughter) -- he ought to get a life. (Scattered applause.)
They've been saying things like that for months, and there have always been critics. There have always been people who say it's not worth it. And indeed, if you watch in any conflict in our history, there have always been people who said, "Why? Why should we do that? Another loss of life. Another person wounded. Another limb off." And -- you can't go to the hospitals at Bethesda or Walter Reed and see those folks and not have your heart break for them and the fact that their lives are going to be lived differently; or tomorrow, when we go to Arlington and recall all those who died on September 11th and lives not lived.
But it is worth it. It is worth it. And those who suggest to the contrary are not only wrong, but they will be proved wrong.
The -- Germany and Italy were fascist states -- and Japan -- during World War II. And throughout the entire Cold War those countries stood with us against the Soviet Union. How does that happen? How did they go from being fascist states to being democracies and to helping to prevent the Soviet Union from expanding across Europe?
South Korea -- same people in the north, same people in the south. South of the DMZ: robust economy, vibrant democracy. Up north: darkness, starvation, concentration camps. They had to lower the height for getting in the military in North Korea to four feet, 10 inches for adults, because of starvation.
Now think of those people. Think if we'd said, "Oh! It's not worth it."
The extremists are determined to destroy states. They are determined to destroy free systems. They are determined to take their violence and spread it across this globe, and we can't let them do it. And The Financial Times is wrong. (Applause.)
DONNELLY: This questioner writes, "Aren't you ashamed of your policy forbidding the flag-draped coffins of our dead soldiers to be shown returning home, when their families have clearly said that they do want their loved ones to be honored and recognized in this way?"
RUMSFELD: No. And I would just simply repeat that this is a procedure that was adopted by the Department of Defense many years ago, back in the last administration. I do not believe that the person asking the question is correct in saying that the -- clearly the families want it one way. The families, I believe, support the position of the Department of Defense when, back in the last administration, the policy was instituted. And I think that it's probably correct.
The families have every opportunity to handle the burial of their loved ones in any way they want, public or private, and they do that. And it seems to me it's not the government's right or position to make that decision for them.
DONNELLY: How will we know that the mission in Iraq is accomplished and our forces can leave? Can that ever happen if our troops remain under attack?
RUMSFELD: The answer is yes, it can happen and it will happen. We -- the United States of America does not put forces into a country to leave them there; we put them in there to help that country get on its feet and then leave.
What we're doing is important. We are training Iraqis in the police, in the army, in the national guard, in the border patrol, so that they can assume the responsibility for their own security. We have no desire to stay there and provide security in that country or in any other country.
And we have gone from zero to 95,000 Iraqis that are fully trained, fully equipped, providing their own security. They'll be up to about 145,000 Iraqis by the end of this year, fully trained, fully equipped. There are some another 50,000 of them that are not fully trained or fully equipped yet but that have been recruited and are capable of doing some things, relatively modest things, but not fully providing security.
The amount of time it will take, it seems to me, is a reasonable amount of time. We have wonderful people working on the training. NATO has now agreed to assist in the training. And I think that what we'll find is that already the Iraqi forces outnumber the U.S. and coalition forces. And if you look at the trained and equipped, we've got about 135,000, 136,00 people there, and the Iraqis are now up to 95,000 fully trained and fully equipped, they're going to walk past us in the next month or two in terms of total numbers, and then pass the entire coalition before the end of the year by a substantial amount.
So I'm optimistic. I think that we have -- we don't want to be there. What we want to do is to help that country get on its feet, and to contribute to their development of their own security capabilities so that they can have a country, as the president said, that's a single country that's at peace with its neighbors, that is not engaged in weapons programs that threaten other people, that's not engaged in terrorism, and that is respectful of the various religious and ethnic diversity that exists in that country. And that's what will happen.
DONNELLY: When do you anticipate Saddam Hussein will go on trial?
RUMSFELD: It's up to the Iraqis. And they're working on it right now. There are people over there that are talking about in the coming weeks. I know there are people accumulating the kinds of information. Other countries want to participate, like Kuwait and Iran and other countries that have been the recipient of Saddam Hussein's viciousness over time. When it will actually happen is up to the Iraqi people, but there's no doubt but that they want to get it done.
DONNELLY: Has the cost of the Iraq war, not just in terms of dollars and lives, but also the extended deployments and resulting impact on civilian careers of guardsmen and reservists, and the hardships on military families, exceeded what the administration had expected and told the nation to expect?
RUMSFELD: Every person serving in the Guard and Reserve and the active force is a volunteer. There's no one who was conscripted. There's no one who was forced to do anything. Every single one of those wonderful young men and women put their hands up and volunteered to serve our country. And we are so fortunate as a country that there is a steady stream of talented, professional, dedicated, courageous young people who are willing to do that.
The stress on the force, if you will, the numbers of people that have been called up in the Guard and Reserve, has been obviously greater during this period of Afghanistan and Iraq since September 11th, 2001, than it had been in previous periods. And we are doing everything humanly possible to reduce the stress on the force by rebalancing the active and the reserve components, by seeing that we've got the right skill sets on active duty so that we don't have to call reservists up excessively.
The statement about the -- what the administration told the American people, it needs to be answered, it seems to me, because it seemed to have a little barb in it. (Laughter.) I can't climb into the questioner's mind, but I sense that.
You know, when September 11th came and 3,000 Americans were killed, we went to war. There were people who thought that terrorism was a law enforcement problem, and what you do is you sit around with your finger in your ear and you wait till you get hit, and then like when somebody steals a car you run out and find the person, throw them in the jug and punish them for it. Well, this is not about that. This is about something entirely different, terrorism is. And it isn't a matter of throwing someone in the jug for stealing a car and punishing them; the task here is so fundamentally not law enforcement. It is trying to get the information so that we can go and find and stop the terrorist networks from killing another 3,000 people. That's what this is about. And I understand it's hard for some people to get their heads turned around on that.
So what does the -- any administration tell the American people? Well, the prior administration said we'd be out of Bosnia by Christmas. We're still there. I have not said when we'll be out of Iraq -- (chuckles) -- because I don't know, and I know I don't know. What we have said is there's been criticism of the cost, there's been criticism of the length of time, and it's not knowable precisely.
This task we have is to do everything humanly possible to try to protect the American people. And this government has done a lot to make this world safer and the coalition has done a lot to make this world safer.
And what we tell the American people is what we know. And what we know is we're putting pressure on them through this 90-nation coalition all across the globe. It's harder for them to travel between countries. It's harder for them to communicate with each other. It's harder for them to raise money. It's harder for them to transfer money. It's harder for them to buy weapons. It's harder for them to do everything!
Saddam Hussein (sic), if he's alive, is spending a whale of a lot of time trying to not get caught. And we've not seen him on a video since 2001. Now he's got to be busy. Why is he busy? It's because of the pressure that's being put on him.
And it seems to me that that is what one ought to expect. One ought to expect that their government will do everything humanly possible -- we can't make people safe, because the terrorists can attack at any time, any place, using any technique. It's not possible to defend in every place in the world at every moment of the day or night against every conceivable technique. It can't be done.
The only way to do this is what's being done. And that's to put together a large coalition, to put pressure on them all across the world, to bring every element of national power to bear, and to continue that until we have reasonable confidence.
And it's -- this is much more like the Cold War, in terms of the amount of time it's going to take, than it is about World War II. The president said it the other day. You're not going to see a signing ceremony on the USS Missouri at the end of this war. This is more like the Cold War. This is something that's going to take time. It's going to take perseverance.
People are going to have to be steadfast. They're going to have to reject the kind of counsel that The Financial Times gave this morning. I didn't read this, so I assume you're reasonably right in your quotation, whoever asked the question. We're going to have to say to people, "Don't be faint-hearted. Don't think you can make a separate peace. Don't think you can make a private deal, as a person or a country." You can't. We're in it together. (Applause.)
DONNELLY: Mr. Secretary, you said earlier that Saddam Hussein hasn't done a video for a while. You meant Osama bin Laden, right?
RUMSFELD: I did. I meant that we haven't seen Osama bin Laden. Thank you.
And I made one other mistake, I'm told. This says that the flag- draped policy was established not in the last administration but in the one before that, which would have been Bush 41. And for that I hasten to correct myself. I want to thank whoever sent the note up. (Laughter.)
DONNELLY: We have a couple questions about the Abu Ghraib prison situation. You've come in for some criticism by people who say that by virtue of a memo you wrote, and the Schlesinger report also documented this, that you may have contributed to a climate, it is said, that allowed some of these abuses to happen. And a couple questioners would like you to address that.
RUMSFELD: The memo I wrote involved Guantanamo Bay and had absolutely nothing to do with Iraq at all. It was a memorandum that I wrote in response to a request from the combatant commander right after September 11th, people -- correction, after Afghanistan, when some people were picked up in Afghanistan, brought to Guantanamo Bay, and they were being interrogated. And he wrote a memorandum requesting that he be authorized to do certain things. And I authorized some of the things, did not authorize some of the other things.
And this was -- I forget the month, but for the sake of argument, I think it was maybe December, but it doesn't matter when it was. Within a matter of weeks, I was told that some of the people in Guantanamo were concerned about the possibility of using some of those techniques, and so I immediately rescinded it and asked a -- called together a group of general counsels and judge advocate generals and asked them to review the entire thing and make sure that whatever we're doing is the correct thing.
In the intervening period of a few weeks, the procedures that I had authorized and had to approve were approved for the use on one or two people. One of them was one of the people deemed to be one of the other September 11th hijack conspirators. And the procedures were not torture. And so the suggestion to the contrary, it seems to me, would be inaccurate.
At the end of that period, after the review by the lawyers, we looked at it and I issued a new set of instructions, which have been in existence, I believe, ever since. And that's the sum total of it.
The -- I think there's two things to keep in mind. One is that the people who were captured in Afghanistan had been in al Qaeda training camps. Al Qaeda had just killed 3,000 Americans. Understandably, the task was not to put them in jail and have trials of them and then send them to jail because they were bad; it was to find out what in the world did they know. Who were they going to hit next? Where was bin Laden? Where were the other senior al Qaeda people? And that's why the president made the judgment that the -- those detainees would be kept in Guantanamo Bay and the Department of Defense would be responsible, along with an interagency group, of conducting interrogations for them. There's a blurring of memory into all of this, and if you think about it, the pictures that one saw of Abu Ghraib were terrible. And they represented abuses of people in our custody. And that's wrong. And that should not have happened. And there isn't anyone connected with the Department of Defense who doesn't understand that, doesn't know it.
What have we done about it? I guess, if you think about it, how a country responds to a problem like that tells a little bit about the country. We've had 11 investigations. Eight reports are completed. Three more are due. Over 13,000 pages of reports have been received thus far. Over 950 interviews have been conducted. Forty-three congressional briefings and hearings have been conducted.
There have been 45 people referred for court martial. Some have pled guilty and have already been sentenced, I believe. Forty-two have been referred for what the military calls an Article 15 non- judicial punishment. Twelve general officer letters of reprimand have been issued. Twenty-three soldiers have been administratively separated.
The Army has taken -- Army is the executive agent for detainees. They have taken a whole series of administrative steps. They've established a provost marshal general as Army executive agent for detainees. They are planning for general officer-level military police command in the Army future force. They've developed detainee operation integration plan -- prioritized plan addressing policy, doctrine, organization, training, materiel, leadership. They've synchronized Army with joint policy and doctrine, and they've established a detainee operations oversight council.
So the people who've done something wrong are being prosecuted. The investigations are still under way and more may be happen, because a number of these matters have been referred to the Army inspector general and the Defense Department inspector general. And corrective steps have been taken.
Has it been harmful to our country? Yes. Is it something that has to be corrected? Yes. Is it something that shouldn't have happened in the first place? Yes. Does it rank up there with chopping someone's head off on television?
AUDIENCE MEMBERS: No.
RUMSFELD: It doesn't. Was it done as a matter of policy? No.
I think that -- I think that the Department of Defense has addressed it in a serious way that reflects the responsibility the department has to treat people properly who are in the custody of the Department of Defense. And in this case that did not happen. It was wrong. We should have treated those properly and they were not treated properly.
DONNELLY: The probes you refer to are, if I'm not mistaken, all Defense Department probes. And they're numerous and serious, but a lot of people have asked and -- asked the question: Do we need to have an independent commission like the September 11th commission to look at this, somebody who is more independent?
RUMSFELD: Well, I guess 11 isn't enough for that person. We want to have more.
It seems to me that the Schlesinger panel -- Jim Schlesinger was a Cabinet officer for presidents of both political parties. Harold Brown was a secretary of Defense for a Democratic president. Tillie Fowler was a former congresswoman from Florida. Chuck Horner, General Horner was a combatant commander. Those four people are independent. They were given complete access to every single thing going on in the department. They have said that publicly. They have had every opportunity to review and to discuss and to analyze. And I would call that an independent, and I think anyone who suggests that those four people are not independent doesn't know them.
Come on, John. You've got another one.
DONNELLY: Oh, I've got a -- (laughter) -- I have so many that the task is whittling them down in the next five minutes.
Do you think that the war on terror cannot be won, as the president said? Forget for a moment that he is your boss. (Laughter.)
RUMSFELD: You got to be kidding. (Laughter.)
Look, what he was talking about was what I mentioned earlier, that, you know, it isn't a kind of a war that ends with a signing ceremony on the Missouri. This is something that -- it's like -- it's like -- there are some things that you have to keep working on continuously.
We've got a bunch of people sending money to schools that put these young people in there and teach them how to go out and kill innocent men, women and children, and lie to them and tell them that they're going to go to heaven if they do that, that that's a good thing for them to do. Now will there maybe always be people trying to pollute young minds and make them believe that? Maybe there will be, in which case we're going to have to keep working the problem.
We can't -- this is not a problem that can be handled militarily. Does the military play a role? Certainly. But does the Department of Treasury, with watching the finances? Yes. Does the Department of Homeland Security in terms of defense right here? Yes. This is a problem that the world is going to have to struggle with, because there are a small percentage of people of that religion that are trying to hijack that religion and train more and more people so that they can reestablish their extreme views as the dominant view in this world, not just in their religion, but in this world.
And -- so will the war be over? Sure it will be over, in the sense that we will have done such a good job over a sustained period of time that there won't be a signing ceremony. But then can you turn around and relax and think that there aren't going to be people in the world who are going to want to do some perfectly terrible things, like going into a school in Russia and killing hundreds of young kids? No.
There are always going to be people, I'm afraid, who are going to engage in various types of violence, and we're going to have to live in a world like that. And we're going to have to live in a world like that at a time when the lethality of weapons is increasing, and when the availability of those weapons is increasing, and where people will be able to buy things off the shelf that they never could have in a million years developed, manufactured or produced. But they can buy them off the shelf, and they can use that same technology against the people that do develop and think of and manufacture and produce those technologies.
DONNELLY: Here's another boss-related question. Vice President Cheney said this week that voters should make the, quote, "right" decision on election day or risk being, quote, "hit again" by terrorists. Do you agree?
RUMSFELD: I think that the vice president, shortly after he said that, someone asked him if he meant what might have been taken from that, and he said, no, he did not mean that. So why would someone ask me that question? (Scattered applause.)
DONNELLY: Recently South Korea admitted once having a clandestine uranium enrichment program as well as a previous plutonium development program in the '80s. Were you surprised by these revelations? And what's their impact on the security situation on the peninsula? Do you think South Korea maintains an intention to develop nuclear capabilities?
RUMSFELD: I was surprised. It does not make any difference at all in terms of the security situation on the peninsula. And I would certainly doubt that the current government has any clandestine nuclear capability in South Korea. We know that the North Koreans have announced that they do.
DONNELLY: Is there any connection between the Chechen terrorists in Beslan and al Qaeda? And is Putin taking the right stance with regard to the Chechen situation?
RUMSFELD: If we could take, first of all, the school incident, my answer is, I don't know. I've talked to Minister of Defense Ivanov, and they are investigating the people who they have access to who conducted that ghastly terrorist attack.
We'll know what their linkages were. Some of the people they've identified already, I'm told, have been identified as Chechens. So we'll stop on the subject of the school.
The second subject: Is there a relationship between Chechen terrorists and al Qaeda? And the answer is absolutely. I mean, they've been trained in the same training camps in Afghanistan. The interaction between them and the IMU and the Ansar al-Islam and various other groups -- they have various linkages. Some have common funding sources. Some have common training facilities. Some cooperate on activities together.
And -- but -- so there's no question but that there's a linkage between the Chechen terrorists and al Qaeda. But I can't say that about this event, because the investigation's just in its early stages.
DONNELLY: Before I ask you the last question, Mr. Secretary, I'd like to present you with a certificate of appreciation from the Press Club and -- you already have one of these, but a second National Press Club mug for the beverage of your choice.
RUMSFELD: Thank you, John. (Applause.) Thank you very much.
DONNELLY: One more for you.
RUMSFELD: One more?!
DONNELLY: One more. I said, "Before I ask the last question."
After November -- (laughter) -- after November, will you fade away, or will we have Don Rumsfeld to kick around for another four years? (Laughter.)
RUMSFELD: I'm old enough to have heard that fellow say that. (Laughter.) And I don't intend to say it. Thank you very much. (Applause.)
DONNELLY: I'd like to ask everyone to remain in their seats while the secretary leaves. Thank you. Please remain in your seats.
And I'd like to thank you all for coming today. I'd also like to thank National Press Club staff members Melinda Cooke, Pat Nelson, Jo Anne Booz, Melanie Abdow and Howard Rothman for organizing today's lunch. Also, thanks to the NPC library for their research. Thank you all very much. Have a good day.


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What a cute, cute outfit! :)
Love the red accents.
Hah, if plaid counts as stripes too then I have a LOT more stripes in my closet than I thought! Great pattern mixing! I love the belt too! Super cute! :)ReplyDelete
YES! Stripes and plaid!ReplyDelete
I like the mix of stripes and plaid!ReplyDelete
Cute combo! I wore my stripes today too. I'm gonna link up later :)ReplyDelete
I Love the mixing of prints !ReplyDelete
Wow, now I feel like I'm taking the easy out with simple basic outfits featuring one stripe!ReplyDelete
Oh, how fun pattern mixing! Love the red shoes too. Expected color combinations are the perfect pairing to such bold statement pieces.ReplyDelete
I was hoping for a plaid week soon. ;)ReplyDelete
I love the pattern-mixing, with the red pops to mix it up a bit. Of course... my favorite colors!
My sister calls it my "newspaper" look... black, white, and red all over... hyuk, hyuk.
I was eyeing my plaid Anthro skirt this morning and wondered. Maybe I'll wear it tomorrow, but I feel like pants tomorrow. Maybe Saturday. Maybe a Pretty in Plaid challenge week? I'd be happy to be a third co-host and get a Linky blog hop. I have no shame.
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Oh buggers, just noticed that someone before me said the same thing about a plaid week. Ooh, the pressure! Two person peer pressure :D
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Ooh I LOVE! I was wondering about plaid myself..I do have some plaid items maybe I can incorporate for the last day! maybe! But anyway I love the pattern mixing and the pops of red you did! And the sleeve length of that shirt is perfect, so cute :)ReplyDelete
I love those pants so much! So cute and fun and stylish and I want a pair! Blogger envy, over here.ReplyDelete
Haha! Go plaid-stripes!ReplyDelete
This is my favorite of all the outfits this week. I had the most amazing plaid pants when I was a junior in high school and yours remind me of them and are making me all nostalgic!ReplyDelete
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Daily Caller: Documentary filmmaker Fleming Fuller has produced a full-blown re-enactment of the events the night Border Patrol agent Brian Terry was killed. Terry was murdered in 2010 with Operation Fast and Furious weapons that the Obama administration allowed to fall into the hands of Mexican drug cartels.
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Updates - FA Trophy final: Cambridge United v Gosport Borough
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4.50pm: FULL TIME UNITED 4 GOSPORT 0.
4.45pm: A nice touch from Money as Coulson is replaced by Bonner, who has had an injury-hit first season with the U's. We're almost into stoppage time now.
4.42pm: Champion collects a yellow card for being late on Woodward. The delivery into the box is punched clear by Norris and Woodward is unlucky not to score with the follow up as he clips the bar.
4.37pm: Some Gosport fans have decided to leave early with their chances of glory well and truly gone. In contrast, the U's supporters are willing their team on and want more goals as they get ready to celebrate some silverware.
4.34pm: The attendance at Wembley is 18,120. And those supporting the U's are cheering again as Pearce upends Pugh in the box and Berry sticks away the penalty, easily sending Ashmore the wrong way. UNITED 4 GOSPORT 0.
4.30pm: Gosport are trying their best to pull a goal back, Bennett lets fly from the edge of the box and sees it whistle just past the post with Norris beaten. United then make their second change as Arnold, who got vital goals in the early rounds, takes the place of Hughes.
4.27pm: Carmichael goes into the book for a late challenge on Donaldson, while Gosport replace Gosney with Wooden. And Money responds to calls from the U's fans with a quick wave.
4.25pm: Donaldson is sensing a hat-trick and he has dig from outside the box which gets blocked. At the other end, the Gosport fans have turned the volume up a bit to gee up their men for one last push. It would be an incredible comeback, however, if they were to make it all square now.
4.23pm: Norris is called into action as Gosport go on the counter, Miller ducking out of the way which enables Gosney to shoot, but the United keeper is more than equal to it.
4.20pm: The U's sense blood now and Hughes lofts a pass into the box which Berry attempts to acrobatically convert, but his effort is blocked. Meanwhile, Gillies is replaced by Pugh.
4.16pm: The changes don't work! Berry sees a shot hit the post after good work by Gillies, Hughes and Bird both try to put in rebounds and Donaldson then shows them how to do it by rifling in from 12 yards. UNITED 3 GOSPORT 0.
4.14pm: Money is out in his technical area urging his troops to stay on the front foot, while his opposite number Alex Pike responds to the second goal by making a couple of changes, Sills and Brown going off to be replaced by Williams and Woodward.
4.10pm: That goal should settle any lingering nerves among the U's fans, and they are in fine voice as the Great Escape gets an airing. Gosport remain a threat going forward, but Money's men are having plenty of joy now.
4.07pm: And that might have needed to go in for the Skrill South strugglers as the U's break straight down the other end and Donaldson shows real composure to control the ball in the box and work enough space to send the ball past the despairing Ashmore with his left boot. UNITED 2 GOSPORT 0.
4.06pm: Gosport win a free kick in front of their fans and Carmichael's effort is on target, but it stings the palms of Norris and no more.
4.03pm: The second half is under way.
3.49pm: As the fans head towards the kiosks to get their half-time refreshments, the Gosport fans will be reflecting on what might have been as their team's fast start could have brought them the game's opening goal. Instead it is the U's followers who will be enjoying their tea and hot dogs more thanks to Bird's strike. United ended the half on top and they will be aiming to take a grip of things in the second period.
3.47pm: HALF TIME UNITED 1 GOSPORT 0.
3.41pm: The cries of 'amber army' are ringing around the stadium and the drummer has found his drumsticks as the U's fans crank up the volume, buoyed by that opening goal. Time seemed to stand still as the ball came down from Birds lob, the effort being perfectly weighted to drop under the bar.
3.38pm: The United pressure has been building and, after Donaldson's free kick blasts into the wall, the ball is eventually lifted over the top by Berry and Bird does brilliantly to lob the ball over the onrushing Ashmore. UNITED 1 GOSPORT 0.
3.35pm: Berry sprays a nice pass across the pitch and Hughes collects before having an air shot from the edge of the box, and then Hughes is wiped out by an opponent as he attempts to get to the byline. Hughes takes the free kick himself, but he cannot find a team-mate.
3.29pm: Gosport continue to show plenty of attacking verve, and the U's have to hastily clear their lines as Carmichael's cross-shot is spilled by Norris at full stretch.
3.28pm: Taylor goes galloping down the left wing and is clattered for his troubles. Gillies swings in the free kick but Ashmore is able to gather. The match is just starting to settle down after a frantic opening.
3.25pm: United come forward again as Donaldson goes on his first mazy dribble of the game, but he is unable to work that bit of space to get the ball into the box from the left flank.
3.22pm: Gillies does manage to get away from his man and work an opening, but Ashmore is quickly off his line to smother and send the ball behind for a corner. The U's definitely look dangerous every time they go forward, but Gosport are showing no signs of Wembley nerves.
3.20pm: Hughes goes on a powerful run down the right, but the Gosport defence clear their lines. Then the dangerous Bennett, who is Gosport's all-time record scorer, fires in a drive which Norris dives to his right to keep out.
3.15pm: The United head coach may have a few early worries as their opponents have begun with real energy and purpose, and Money will want Gilllies, who has started alongside Bird in attack, to get in behind the Gosport defence.
3.11pm: It's been a positive start from Gosport, but the U's are now enjoying some good possession, although Norris is having to to keep on his toes to deal with crosses.
3.09pm: Tait gets into the box with a nice forward run but it comes to nothing, before Bennett lashes over the bar after finding some space in the U's box.
3.05pm: Action at both ends as Bennett tests Norris with a looping header, before Bird gets through and is denied by goalkeeper Ashmore.
3.02pm: Gillies swings in an early free kick for the U's, but Gosport clear.
3.00pm: We've kicked off.
2.57pm: The national anthem has been sung with gusto, but which team will be singing come the full-time whistle?
2.52pm: Some huge yellow balloons are in the United end while a beach ball is doing the rounds in the Gosport end. But the serious business is about to start as the players walk out onto the pitch and are introduced to the dignatries.
2.46pm: The red carpet is being rolled out and a bit of Florence and the Machine is blasting out of the loudspeakers as kick off at Wembley gets ever closer.
2.38pm: Seems like the Honey Monster is supporting Gosport this afternoon, and the Borough fan in the furry yellow costume is sitting with a man sporting a fez, as you do.
2.36pm: There were boos from the U's fans as Sills' name was read out over the loudspeaker, the Gosport man having scored the winner for Torquay against United in the 2009 Conference Premier play-off final.
2.34pm: So the main news from the United team sheet is a starting place for Gillies. It will be interesting to see if he starts wide left with Donaldson partnering Bird up front, or whether it means a move away from a 4-4-2 formation for the U's. There is also no Elliott, Sam-Yorke or Adam Cunnington in the 16-man squad.
2.31pm: GOSPORT TEAM: Nathan Ashmore, Lee Molyneaux, Andy Forbes, Jamie Brown, Brett Poate, Sam Pearce, Josh Carmichael, Danny Smith, Tim Sills, Justin Bennett, Michael Gosney. Substitutes: Rory Williams, Dan Wooden, Ryan Scott, Adam Wilde, Dan Woodward.
2.29pm: UNITED TEAM: Will Norris, Richard Tait, Josh Coulson, Ian Miller, Greg Taylor, Liam Hughes, Tom Champion, Luke Berry, Ryan Donaldson, Josh Gillies, Ryan Bird. Substitutes: Kevin Roberts, Tom Bonner, Andy Pugh, Mitch Austin, Nathan Arnold.
2.24pm: The atmosphere is starting to build now, with both sets of players fully into their pre-match warm-ups. United head coach Richard Money is on the touchline, soaking up some rays and watching his men go through their routines. 2.00pm: The big screen says there is one hour to kick off as United goalkeeper Will Norris emerges from the tunnel to begin his warm-up, saluting the U's fans as he does so.
1.57pm: Can make out a few rosettes in the United end, but haven't been able to spot any of the oversized novelty jockey caps - not sure what the official name for them is - just yet.
1.54pm: You wouldn't have thought their had been an Aviva Premiership match between Saracens and Harlequins on the Wembley pitch almost 24 hours ago, with the turf looking immaculate. The Gosport players will no doubt relish playing on it, but the U's will be hoping to make use of the big space to open up their opponents.
1.51pm: The sun's gone in but the Gosport fans that are slowly making their way into the ground are having fun, with plenty of vuvuzela action. Hopefully that noise will get drowned out as the U's supporters begin to find their seats - and their voices.
1.38pm: Looks like there have been plenty of selfies taken, with the likes of Tom Elliott and Delano Sam-Yorke busy on their phones in the Wembley sunshine.
1.36pm: Both sets of players have been out on the pitch, getting a feel for the national stadium. The U's have come in tracksuits, whereas Gosport have gone down the suit route.
1.34pm: We're all set up at Wembley and getting ready for the big day as Cambridge United aim to defeat Gosport and lift the FA Trophy.


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First, the pickle recipe. This is a super easy, no fail, first try attempt at canning. If you want to start, this is a fabulous place to start. Everybody loves pickles!
Pickles — 7 Quart batch
You will need: approximately 1/4 bushel of pickling cucumbers. TIP: if they are big, you will get more than 7 quarts, if they are small, you may get less than 7 quarts (We like having big pickles for slicing and small ones for munching in the same jar). Also, 3 heads of dry or fresh dill per bottle, and at least 2 garlic cloves for each quart bottle. For the brine, you will need 6 cups white vinegar, 1/2 cup pickling salt, 1/4 cup sugar and 8 1/4 cups water. And 7 wide mouth quart bottles, with new lids and clean rings. Make sure bottles are clean and sanitized before beginning.
1. Keep chilled until ready to start. TIP: if buying pickling cucumbers, plan on canning them the same day they are picked to ensure crispness. If you are canning them from your garden you can bottle the cucumbers in the brine, keeping them in the fridge until you have enough to process them together in the same water bath.
2. Scrub and rinse cucumbers thoroughly. Peel garlic. TIP: soak individual garlic cloves in water for a few hours before beginning to easily remove papery skin from garlic
3. Add 3 heads of dill and at least 2 garlic cloves to each bottle (more garlic can be used, if you like pickled garlic, it's also yummy to eat).
4. Place as many cucumbers as possible into each bottle leaving 1″ head space. TIP: using wide mouth bottles will make this much easier.
5. Mix vinegar, pickling salt, sugar and water and bring to a boil, just until salt and sugar are dissolved.
6. Using a funnel, pour brine into each bottle, filling until there is 1″ headspace.
7. Remove any air bubbles from jars by gently moving cucumbers around with a butter knife.
8. Boil lids to soften the seal and wipe rims of bottles. Place lids on top of bottles, and secure tightly with a ring. TIP: using a magnet to get lids out of boiling water facilitates the task
9. Process all 7 Quarts in a boiling water bath canner for 20 minutes. TIP: make sure the temperature of the water in the canner is not too hot or too cold. The bottles and the water bath should be about the same temperature to avoid the bottle cracking.
10. Remove from water and allow to cool untouched for 12 hours.
These Pickles get better with time, so allow to marinate at least a couple weeks.
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Salsa — 25 pints (approximately)
Warning: if you bottle this salsa, you will never be able to buy salsa at the store again. Your family will insist you do it every year, so plan on a life time commitment! But, its worth it! Just remember you only have to bottle salsa one day a year, then you get to enjoy it for 364 days of the year.
You will need: 20 lbs (about 1/2 bushel) red ripe Roma tomatoes (can also use slicing tomatoes, but there is more liquid and takes longer to cook down), 3 white onions, 4 green bell peppers, 6 anaheim peppers, 8 jalapeno peppers, 2 red bell peppers, 1/2 cup salt, 1 tsp lemon pepper 1/2 tsp. black pepper, 2 bunches cilantro, 1 cup vinegar, 4 /12 oz. cans tomato paste, 6 cloves or garlic. And approximately 25 pint jars, washed and sanitized with new lids and clean rings.
1. Begin by washing, coring and blanching (boil for 2-3 mins) the tomatoes.
2. Remove from boiling water and allow to cool enough to touch.
3. Slip skins from tomatoes (if tomatoes are ripe, skins should come off easily. When tomatoes are slightly green, peeling becomes very cumbersome) and place in a blender. TIP: use food handling gloves to protect your skin from the acidity of the tomatoes.
4. Puree tomatoes in batches and pour into a large stock pot. (Note: we have found that 20 lbs. of tomatoes make around 10 quarts of pureed tomatoes). Turn on stove top to medium-low heat.
5. Chop all onions, peppers, cilantro and garlic and add to stock pot with tomatoes. TIP: using a good food processor will help a lot! Add salt, black/lemon pepper, vinegar and tomato paste.
6. Stir and simmer on medium low heat for approximately 2 hours until flavors blend and a thick consistency is reached.
7. Once salsa is ready, boil lids to soften seal, and begin filling pints with hot salsa leaving 1″ headspace.
8. Wipe rims of bottle and tightly secure a ring.
9. Process 7-8 pints of hot salsa in boiling water bath for 25 minutes. TIP: Make sure the temperature of the bottle and the water in the canner are similar in temperature. The salsa should be very hot, so bring water bath to a near boil before submerging bottles in water. Also, because you can only process 7-8 pints at a time, leave the salsa in the stock pot on low to maintain the temperature before processing. TIP 2: use a clean new pair of gardening gloves with a rubber exterior to easily handle hot glass bottles.
10. After processing, remove from boiling water and allow to cool untouched for 12 hours.
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I hope you enjoy it! Although it might sound complicated, it is very rewarding to do it yourself! And it tastes so much better!
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The Clippers, looking to win their second straight division title, are 19-7 since Dec. 14 and 11-4 since All-Star point guard Chris Paul separated his right shoulder. They lead second-place Phoenix by 3 1/2 games in the Pacific Division following the Suns' victory over Charlotte. DeAndre Jordan had 14 rebounds and 10 points during a foul-plagued 35 minutes.
Enes Kanter led Utah with 23 points and 14 boards, while teammates Derrick Favors and Jeremy Evans sat out with injuries. Favors has inflammation in his right hip, and Evans has a bruised tailbone and right elbow.
The Jazz lost the second game of a back-to-back set for the 10th time in 13 tries this season, one night after holding an emotional halftime tribute to Hall of Fame coach Jerry Sloan in Salt Lake City, complete with a banner depicting his win total in 23 years with the club and appearances by Karl Malone and John Stockton.
The Clippers turned a three-point deficit into a 73-61 lead with an 18-3 run highlighted by Griffin's reverse alley-oop dunk off a lob from Crawford with 2:43 left in the third quarter. The Jazz got as close as 88-79 on a pair of free throws by Gordon Hayward with 6:10 to play.
Despite outshooting Utah 51.5 percent to 41 percent in the first half, the Clippers had to settle for a 42-all tie at the break after the lead changed hands nine times.
Los Angeles coach Doc Rivers had to summon Ryan Hollins and Crawford off the bench earlier than he expected after Jordan picked up his second foul with 8:11 left in the first quarter and shooting guard J.J. Redick got his second one just 64 seconds later. But the Clippers demonstrated again why they possess one of the deepest teams in the NBA as they shot 51.4 percent from the field and held the Jazz to 35.8 percent.
Alec Burks, the first player off the Jazz bench, missed seven of eight shots and finished with four points. Rudy Gobert, the second player off the bench, fouled out with 8:04 remaining and finished with five points in 18 minutes.
The Clippers won their eighth straight meeting with Utah, making it their longest winning streak against the Jazz since the franchises began competing against each other in 1974-75.
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Saturday, May 5, 2012
May Monster Madness Day 5!! Ft. The Creature of the Black Lagoon
Creature from the Black Lagoon is a 1954 monster horror film directed by Jack Arnold, and starring Richard Carlson, Julia Adams, Richard Denning, Antonio Moreno, and Whit Bissell. The eponymous creature was played by Ben Chapman on land and Ricou Browning in underwater scenes. The film was released in the United States on March 5, 1954.
Creature from the Black Lagoon was filmed and originally released in 3-D requiring polarized 3-D glasses, and subsequently reissued in the 1970s in the inferior anaglyph format (this version was released on home video by MCA Videocassette, Inc. in 1980). It was one of the first Universal films filmed in 3-D (the first was It Came from Outer Space, which was released a year before). It is considered a classic of the 1950s, and generated two sequels, Revenge of the Creature and The Creature Walks Among Us. Revenge of the Creature was also filmed and released in 3-D, in hopes of reviving the format.
They go aboard a tramp steamer, the Rita, which is captained by a crusty old codger named Lucas (Nestor Paiva). The expedition consists of David, Carl and Mark, as well as Reed's girlfriend, Kay Lawrence (Julia Adams), and another scientist, Dr. Edwin Thompson (Whit Bissell). When they arrive at the camp, they discover that his entire research team has been mysteriously killed while he was away. Lucas suggests it was done by a jaguar, but the others are unsure. In fact, the camp was attacked by a piscine amphibious humanoid, a living member of the same species from which the fossil originated. The creature, curious upon seeing the expedition, investigates the camp site, but when its sudden appearance frightens the members, they attack it, and in response, the enraged creature kills them.
The excavation of the area that Carl found the hand turns up nothing. Mark is ready to give up the search, but David suggests that perhaps thousands of years ago the part of the embankment containing the rest of the skeleton fell into the water and was washed downriver. Lucas says that the tributary empties into a lagoon known as the "Black Lagoon", a paradise from which no one has ever returned. The scientists decide to risk it, unaware that the amphibious "Gill-man" that killed Carl's assistants earlier has been watching them. Taking notice of the beautiful Kay, it follows the Rita all the way downriver to the Black Lagoon. Once the expedition arrives, David and Mark go diving to collect fossils from the lagoon floor. After they return, Kay goes swimming and is stalked underwater by the creature, who then gets briefly caught in one of the ship's draglines. Although it escapes, it leaves behind a claw in the net, revealing its existence to the scientists.
Subsequent encounters with the Gill-man claim the lives of two of Lucas's crew members, before the Gill-man is captured and locked in a cage on board the Rita. It escapes during the night and attacks Edwin, who was guarding it. Kay hits the beast with a lantern; driving it off before it can kill Edwin. Following this incident, David decides they should return to civilization, but as the Rita tries to leave, they find the entrance blocked by fallen logs, courtesy of the escaped Gill-man.
While the others attempt to remove the logs, Mark is mauled to death trying to capture the creature single-handedly underwater. The creature then abducts Kay and takes her to his cavern lair. David, Lucas, and Carl give chase to save her. Kay is rescued and the creature is riddled with bullets before he retreats to the lagoon where his body sinks in the watery depths, presumably dead.
The film was novelized in 1977, in paperback under the pseudonym of "Carl Dreadstone", as part of a short-lived series of books based on the classic Universal horror films. The book was introduced by Ramsey Campbell, but was written by Walter Harris. The novel offers a completely different Gill-man, who in this version of the story is gigantic, almost as big as the Rita herself, weighing in at 30 tons. It is both coldblooded and warmblooded, is a hermaphrodite, and also possesses a long whip-like tail. The gigantic creature is dubbed "AA", for "Advanced Amphibian", by the expedition team members. After slaying most of the team members, destroying a Sikorsky helicopter, and kidnapping Kay more than once, the creature is killed by the crew of a US Navy torpedo boat.
The novel also differs greatly with respect to the human characters. Only David Reed and Kay Lawrence remain the same. Mark Williams is a German named "Bruno Gebhardt", and dies not as a result from drowning but by the monster falling on him. Lucas is named "Jose Goncalves Fonseca de Souza" and is a mostly sympathetic character until his suggestion of throwing the wounded and unconscious Reed to the monster makes an enraged Gebhardt/Williams throw him to the beast instead. Dr. Thompson and Dr. Maia both die grisly deaths, whereas in the movie they survive; Maia is eaten by the monster, and Thompson is impaled on a long tree branch flung at him by the creature like a spear (in an apparent nod to a deleted scene from Revenge of the Creature wherein the Gill-man killed a guard in this fashion).
The movie has an enduring legacy in both media and the general public. A musical based on the movie opened at Universal Studios Hollywood in late June 2009. It has also been widely referenced, in part due to its groundbreaking character, in other media. In fact, many movies featuring monsters put a Gill-man likeness in the background as homage. More directly, the Gill-man appeared in the Robot Chicken episode "Shoe", voiced by Seth Green. He tells a guy that he prefers the lagoon to be called the "African-American Lagoon."
The Monster also appears in "We are a Humble Factory", now voiced by Breckin Meyer, where Count Chocula, FrankenBerry, and BooBerry are angrily mentioned by him, as well Fruity Yummy Mummy and Fruit Brute. The creature decides to make his own cereal called "Creature with the Black Macaroons" because macaroon sounds like lagoon; however, the cereal wasn't successful and when all the cereals were dumped into his lagoon, he says "I should've gone with legumes", as legume also sounds like lagoon. Its likeness was also used for the film The Monster Squad. However, due to licensing issues with Universal, the creature is referred to as "Gill-Man."
Ben Chapman introduced the creature in costume with Abbott and Costello on live television on an episode of The Colgate Comedy Hour. Even earlier, in The Seven Year Itch, the film is referenced when Tom Ewell and Marilyn Monroe come out of a theatre showing Creature from the Black Lagoon. Monroe expresses some sympathy for the creature, saying that it was not really bad and "just wanted to be loved".
The creature has a brief cameo emerging from Lake Springfield on The Simpsons.
Creature from the Black Lagoon was later made into a pinball game, designed by John Trudeau (AKA "Dr. Flash"), and released in 1992 by Midway (under the Bally brand name). This game has a retro 1950s drive-in theme. It also features such 50s classic songs like Rock Around the Clock, Get a Job, and Summertime Blues. Completing side missions in the pinball game causes the screen to display "Universal Presents... Creature from the Black Lagoon", and then requires the player to chase after the monster just like in the film. The game sold 7,841 units.
A series of children's books, written by Mike Thaler and Jared Lee, paradigm the film. Beginning with The Teacher From the Black Lagoon, it continued with The Principal..., The Gym Teacher... and several others.
The Marvel Comics character Triton of the Inhumans is a green water breathing character resembling the Creature from the Black Lagoon.
The DC Comics character Aquaman donned a suit of armor resembling the Creature in the 2005–07 miniseries Justice.
In The Nightmare Before Christmas, there is a character in Halloween Town who is clearly meant to be a version of the Creature from the Black Lagoon. In one song, it ponders the contents of Jack's present: "Perhaps it's the head that I found in the lake".
The film has been immortalized in paleontology circles. When Jenny Clack of the University of Cambridge discovered a fossil amphibian in what was once a fetid swamp, she named it Eucritta melanolimnetes, which is Greek for "the creature from the black lagoon."
Though technically a merman, the character Rikuo in the Darkstalkers game series and his race bear a striking resemblance to the Gill-Man, and perhaps more so than any character in the game, remain very true to the source character, with Rikuo being from an area in Brazil near the Amazon. Even the character's name is a reference to one of the actors who played the creature.
Frankenstein Drag Queens From Planet 13 a band from North Carolina who were fronted by now Murderdolls lead singer and solo artist Wednesday 13 also did a song about the creature naming it Creature From The Black Lagoon.
The heavy metal band Iced Earth also did a song about the creature called Dragon's Child on the Horror Show album.
Dave Edmunds did a song called "Creature from the Black Lagoon".
Attack of the Killer Tomatoes: The Animated Series parodied the movie in "The Tomato From The Black Lagoon", where the gang looks for a missing tomato link in the San Zucchini Botanical Gardens and are stalked by an amphibious tomato who goes after Tara, who is also part tomato.
Abe Sapien of Hellboy fame was originally inspired by the film and its titular creature.
Funko released in October 2010 a 7-inch button eyed cuddly monster.
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I'm really enjoying your May Monster Madness posts, Jenny! It's a treat catching up on all the old-school monsters here each day! :)ReplyDelete
Love me some Creature. Great job on the Universal monster postsReplyDelete
Part of the movie was filmed at Silver Springs in Florida and I don't live very far away so I've gotten to go there many times. It makes it that much cooler when watching the movie :DReplyDelete
One of the all time best. The 50's was the golden era for these kinds of movies, and I love all those creature films!!ReplyDelete
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This may be a little late of a reply but I just discovered this thread. I've noticed that when I have my axis pedals set up with the UDS and Aux BUT without putting my beater in the Aux, there is no slag at all, in fact the slave pedal is just as smooth as it would be if it were separated. But as soon as I put my beater into the slot in the Aux (I use the normal axis beaters) I start getting this lag from the slave pedal, it feels as if it's clunky and not responsive at all. I've used my UDS on a different pair of pedals and it works fine, plus it's brand new. My Aux on the other hand is old, and the washer that you mentioned in pic #3 is kind of loose, but when I tighten it in (which I do by pushing it in with pliers) it gets a bit tighter but the slag still exists...
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Tour Glen Lennox with developer
The public is invited to developer-led tours of the Glen Lennox property at 10 a.m. June 22, and 10 a.m. June 27.
To attend, meet at the Glen Lennox Apartment leasing center at 5 Hamilton Road (in the back left portion of the first building on the left when you enter Hamilton Road from Raleigh Road). Parking is available in the Glen Lennox shopping center or along Hamilton Road.
The walking tour is an opportunity for participants to hear from the developer about how it plans to develop the site. Tour photographs will be posted online at www.flickr.com/photos/townofchapelhill/ for those unable to attend.
A Town of Chapel Hill public input session of the new development agreement process for Glen Lennox will be held from 6:30 to 9 p.m. June 26 in Meeting Room B of the Chapel Hill Public Library, 100 Library Drive..
Glen Lennox is an existing mixed-use development off Raleigh Road and Fordham Boulevard seeking to redevelop within the established parameters of its Town Council endorsed Neighborhood Conservation District zoning overlay.
To learn more about the Glen Lennox proposed development, see www.townofchapelhill.org/glenlennox
Learn about development agreements
The Town of Chapel Hill's DESIGN 2020 will offer the special topic presentation, "Development Agreements in Chapel Hill," by David Owens, professor of public law and government at the UNC-Chapel Hill School of Government at noon on Wednesday in the Council Chamber of Chapel Hill Town Hall, 405 Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd.
Professor Owens will present information about development agreements in North Carolina, including a general overview of what a development agreement can do and the basic requirements. A development agreement is a unique tool that may be useful for large projects that will be built over a period of up to 20 years. It provides the developer a level of certainty about what it can build and what mitigation measures will be required, if agreement is reached. It also provides the Town with the opportunity to look at the long-term horizon and make sure it fits with the Town's comprehensive planning efforts and local policies.
Following the presentation, town staff will share a brief update on the development agreement process adopted by the Chapel Hill Town Council on March 18 and current information on the Obey Creek (www.townofchapelhill.org/obeycreek) and Glen Lennox (http://www.townofchapelhill.org/glenlennox) development agreement projects. Read more about this process here: http://www.townofchapelhill.org/index.aspx?page=2210
The presentation will be aired via streaming video at www.townofchapelhill.org/video and will be broadcast on Gov-TV 18 later in the week.
Shuttle buses serving Culbreth Road
Because of the closure of Culbreth Road at U.S. 15-501 through Aug. 25 for the installation of a tunnel underneath the road, the D route will not be able to serve Culbreth Road, Smith Level Road or the N.C. 54 Bypass (Kingswood Apartments).
During this time, Chapel Hill Transit will be operating a shuttle bus between Culbreth Road and the bus stop on Smith Level Road to connect customers with the J route. Customers who board the D bus at Smith Level Road or on the bypass will need to use the J route during this closure. As soon as Culbreth Road reopens, CHT will return the D route to its regular schedule. View the shuttle bus schedule at http://tinyurl.com/keg3uve.
For additional information on this project and other projects that may impact transit and traffic this summer in the Chapel Hill area, please visit http://www.townofchapelhill.org/index.aspx?page=2169.
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The course has a number of levels, progressing from simple to complex. Participants learn a broad range of popular styles, get a taste of a foreign culture, and build coordination. This class is open to both genders.
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The fee for each six-week session is $60 for residents of Chapel Hill or Orange County, or $72 for non-residents; $14 drop-in fee.
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The class meets in the Chapel Hill Community Center Meeting Room.
The fee for Session 1 is $48 for residents of Chapel Hill or Orange County, or $58 for non-residents. The fee for Session 2 is $36 for residents of Chapel Hill or Orange County, or $43 for non-residents. The drop-in fee is $8.
The next session is Aug. 4-Sept. 22
Pre-registration is required. Pay instructor entire fee at first class. To register, visit www.townofchapelhill.org/register, register in person at the Chapel Hill Community Center, Hargraves Center, or Homestead Aquatic Center, or mail a completed registration form to Chapel Hill Parks and Recreation, 200 Plant Road, Chapel Hill NC 27514.