The Rumsfield Papers

[AzariLoveIran]

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to paraphrase a smarmy smartass supernarcissist...

you go to war with the SecDef you have...

not the one you would like to have.

Someday a large group of US personnel will assemble on a moonless night and by starlight urinate in unison on his grave.

[AzariLoveIran]

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not quite sir...

they lack the cajones to act out their pathologies in the open.

they are secretive self aggrandizing sociopaths who have never put themselves in the line of fire.

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cinnci...


you nailed it good...

the original euphoria of vastly expanded budgets and manpower, more stars, more missions eventually was overcome by the realities of WTF he was actually accomplishing ...

WHOLESALE SUBVERSION OF THE CONSTITUTION, CHAIN OF COMMAND AND NATIONAL SECURITY INTERESTS'......

Shinseki told the truth and look what Feldmarschall Rumsfeld did to him...

read what Powells aide col wilkerson has to say about lyin' rummy...

[AzariLoveIran]

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because rummy had just arranged for nerve gas precursors to be shipped to iraq for use against iranians

WHICH WERE THEN USED AGAINST KURDS SITTING ON TOO MUCH OIL.

THAT'S WHY RUMMY SAID SADDAM HAD WMD...

he gave them to him.

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Should Donald Rumsfeld Apologize for the Iraq War?
by Jack Thomas

In March 2003, nine days into the war in Iraq, then-Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld was asked about why we weren’t finding those WMDs we were told Saddam had.

His answer?

“We know where they are.”

Of course, there were never any WMDs discovered in Iraq, so he couldn’t have known where they were, which makes me wonder if the title of Rumsfeld’s new autobiography, “Known and Unknown,” is some sort of sick inside joke.

Rumsfeld’s tome of self-love weighs in at 800 pages and let’s all be honest, that’s exactly 800 more pages than 99 percent of us are going to read. But The Washington Post got an advance copy and their review of it described it as “largely unapologetic.”

Which raises the question: Does Rumsfeld owe America an apology for the Iraq War?

Well, as a card-carrying Republican, a Conservative and Friend of Abe, the answer is obviously -- hell yes!

As a Conservative, I deplore waste in government and so far Operation Iraqi Freedom has cost us over 4,400 American lives and 700 billion dollars added directly to the deficit.

And what did we achieve? Well, depending on why you think we fought this war -- absolutely nothing.

If you bought the company line, like Congress did, that we fought the war to find WMDs before Saddam Hussein used them or gave them to terrorists? – Oops. There weren’t any. No nerve gas. No nukes. No atomic powered drills aimed at releasing the earth’s magma.

If you are one of my liberal friends who cynically thought we went to Iraq to ensure the supply of cheap oil? - Big Oops. Oil was 25 bucks a barrel in 2003. - Guess if it’s higher or lower now? C’mon, guess.

If you were one of the tragically ill-informed who thought the war in Iraq was about getting a payback for 9/11 - Super Oops. There’s never been any credible evidence that Iraq had anything to do with 9/11. Even worse, the war in Iraq took manpower, money and resources away from the real hunt for terrorists in Afghanistan.

Hell yes, Rumsfeld owes us all an apology and $700 billion.

I’m not going to hold my breath waiting for either one, but I’m also not going to pretend that just because he played for my team he wasn’t an integral part of the greatest policy disaster of my lifetime. (NOTE: Rumsfeld is often described as the “chief architect” of the war, but I decline to use that phrase because it implies planning and forethought.)

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Interesting video interview ..


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SOME MORE THINGS FELDMARSCHALL RUMSFELD HAS SAID:



"I would not say that the future is necessarily less predictable than the past. I think the past was not predictable when it started."


"We do know of certain knowledge that he [Osama Bin Laden] is either in Afghanistan, or in some other country, or dead."


"We know where they are. They're in the area around Tikrit and Baghdad and east, west, south and north somewhat." –on Iraq's weapons of mass destruction

"Death has a tendency to encourage a depressing view of war."



"I believe what I said yesterday. I don't know what I said, but I know what I think, and, well, I assume it's what I said."


"Needless to say, the President is correct. Whatever it was he said."



"It is unknowable how long that conflict [the war in Iraq] will last. It could last six days, six weeks. I doubt six months." -in Feb. 2003

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"I'm not into this detail stuff. I'm more concepty."


BUT THE MOST REVEALING IS:


"If I know the answer I'll tell you the answer, and if I don't, I'll just respond, cleverly."



IF SO MANY GOOD MEN AND A FEW WOMEN HADN'T BEEN KILLLED OR MAIMED BECAUSE OF THIS TOO CLEVER BY HALF SONOFABITCH I COULD PROBABLY LAUGH

[Azrael]

And Rumsfeld isn't even clever. He's just so arrogant that he thinks he is.

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you aint alone on that astute observation.

but he sure got rich off of aspertame and tamiflu...

even though latest studies show tamiflu barely better than placebos...

and aspertame metabolozes iinto carcinogens...

all those cases of diet soft drinks baking in saudi quonset hut hothouses at 120 degrees did some nasty work on the GI's in Iraq who drank them.

The RIP marker on Rumsfeld's grave will stand for Rest In Perfidy....

just about everything he touched turned to shit.

[AzariLoveIran]

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Robert Strange McNamara's public mea culpa was akmost touching.

But his modified limited hangout came suspiciously close to to that time in life when they now they must prepare to cross over.

Penance is still in order.

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german bnd who ran curveball warned US counterparts he was an unreliable source.

but the perle/feith/wolfowitz "special plans" stovepipe bypassed US intel pros direct to president cheney and media...

powell wasnt in on this particular subversive activity so didnt know...

ask his aide col wilkerson...

special plans...

yep

but whose?

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This all to fool Joe ..


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