Donald Rumsfeld, Nov 14, 2002: It Would Be A Short War

[CaptainTruth]

Never forget the words of GW Bush's Defense Secretary (& PNAC member) Donald Rumsfeld on Nov 14, 2002:

Rumsfeld: It Would Be A Short War

"Five days or five weeks or five months, but it certainly isn't going to last any longer than that," he said

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[ansible]

1. I hope hell is real and he's burning in it right now

Fuck Donald Rumsfeld

[JT45242]

2. Research shows he is useful but needs limits and clear goals

20 years as a teacher and another 9 as an educational researcher.

Homework is used to help students gain mastery and fluency in skills. The typical student needs substantial practice to master a skill so that it can be built on for further learning.

It also helps with fluency (speed) of fundamental skills. What many consider busy work is actually working on automaticity and fluency. (There are many HW assignment that are busy work ...they should be eliminated)

The best research says that up to grade 7, the limit for homework should be 10 minutes per grade level. So, a first grader should get about 10 minutes of work for an average ability student. Mostly that would be reading practice or math practice.

There is some research that says practice reading should not count towards the minute limit and that lower elementary students should read 15 to 30 minutes every day on their own or with help.

The real problem is that children of color or poverty usually enter school knowing tens of thousands fewer words than children from a middle or upper class background. Universal free quality preschool should be what we are fighting for rather than fighting against homework.

Homework is useful tool...but it must be used in moderation targeting what it is intended to do ...reinforce mastery, fluency, and automaticity

[lastlib]

4. huh???

[ZZenith]

10. Wrong thread there, JT.

[lastlib]

3. Did those neocon PNACers ever get anything right? Don't think so.

Fuck 'em all. Especially Rumsfeld!

[gratuitous]

6. Well, it saved Dick Cheney's deferred compensation from Halliburton

It's up to each individual to gauge what the goal of invading and occupying Afghanistan was. The goal sold to the public was some half-baked notion of a Global War on Terror. The actual result of the invasion and occupation was to save Dick Cheney's deferred compensation package from Halliburton, which was in difficult financial straits in the first decade of the millennium.

[Brother Buzz]

5. Is this the same asshole that told this dumb draftee I added "no value, no advantage, really...

to the United States armed services"?

[captain queeg]

7. Don't forget there were trillions of dollars of mineral resources

I guess they were supposed to be so greatful they would just turn it all over to us.

[Grins]

8. Referring to Iraq, not Afghanistan.

[Caliman73]

9. The actual fighting was over quickly.

The Taliban folded pretty quickly and fled to the Pashtun regions or went into Tora Bora with Bin Laden. They were swept out of power pretty quickly, however, if the history of Afghanistan over the centuries is any indication, it isn't the "conquering" that is the hard part. It is holding the country together that has been the bane of many an empire.

The problem is that Bush and his cronies declared war on a tactic, on a concept. The Global War on Terror (GWoT) was stupid. You cannot stop terrorism militarily. It was an excuse to go mucking around in the mineral and oil rich regions of the world to see what we could steal.