Rumsfeld to receive statesman award.
By on May 3rd, 2007 at 7:25 pm
Rumsfeld to receive statesman award.
The Claremont Institute, a conservative California think tank, has announced that Rumsfeld would receive its “Statemanship” award at a Nov. 17 gala. The WSJ writes, “The award may seem ironic since Rumsfeld prided himself on being a blunt-spoken defense secretary with little time for diplomatic niceties. During his six-year tenure, Rumsfeld famously belittled France and Germany as being part of ‘old Europe’ and said the looting of Baghdad illustrated that ‘freedom is messy.’”
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An award made of pure shit.
May 3rd, 2007 at 7:28 pmGeeeez.
May 3rd, 2007 at 7:29 pmWhat drug company and/or defense contractor funds the Claremont Institute?
Ah yes, the saga continues… “Rummy In Fantasyland…”
I’m not shocked by anything anymore. We’re going to pieces as a society and a culture faster and faster at this point. The one I’m waiting for, the BIG ONE? It’s when Bush gives HIMSELF a Medal of Freedom, for all he’s done to advance the cause of Democracy.
“It goes to 11, man… it goes to 11…”
May 3rd, 2007 at 7:29 pmI thought I said, “an award made of pure bullshit.”
May 3rd, 2007 at 7:32 pmIt would be funny, in a pitiful sort of way, watching him try to pin it on himself…
May 3rd, 2007 at 7:34 pmHe’ll be all alone in a padded room the day it happens…………
And a lot of war ciminals were highly decorated by the Third Reich.
May 3rd, 2007 at 7:34 pmA BULLSHIT AWARD FOR THE QUINTESSENTIAL BULLSHIT ARTIST! HOW APROPOS!
May 3rd, 2007 at 7:37 pmF*ck that punk. He should be drawn and quartered by the military.
May 3rd, 2007 at 7:37 pmOur local PBS in our GOP Florida city with 2 military bases is increasingly showing more documentaries involving Claremont “experts” – along with increased documentaries and films about war and WWII.
May 3rd, 2007 at 7:38 pmWell, you gotta go with the award you have, not the award you want.
May 3rd, 2007 at 7:40 pmIs he getting the award for what he knew he knew or for knowing what he did not know or for not knowing what he knew or for not knowing what he did not know? I just do not know.
Will he ask himself questions during his acceptance speech? Well, golly gee, of course he will. And will he know the answers to his own questions? Well, heavens to betsy, I do not know because that is one of those unknown unknowns that I have already told you I knew about.
May 3rd, 2007 at 7:40 pmHeckuva job fu*king up a country on the other side of the world Rummy. A secretary of war that was forced to resign is going to get an award. A failed secretary of war who had charges brought against him in Germany for crimes against humanity is going to get an award.
A NeoCon think tank giving and award to a neocon is like Hollywood types picking a winner to get an Oscar.
Hell, I think I am gonna give myself the Spudge_Boy award.
May 3rd, 2007 at 7:42 pmI thought I said, “an award made of pure bullshit”…
Ummm, would that be 14 or 18 carat bullshit?
May 3rd, 2007 at 7:43 pmAnd in one single stroke an entire organization completely discredits itself.
Well, I’m sure it has done some other things, too…
May 3rd, 2007 at 7:45 pm“It would be funny, in a pitiful sort of way, watching him try to pin it on himself…
He’ll be all alone in a padded room the day it happens…………”
And he would probably hurt himself trying to do so.
I have said since the beginning of the Iraq Invas…, War, I mean Iraq War, that Bush would be the first POTUS to leave office in a straight jacket.
May 3rd, 2007 at 7:45 pmClassic modern conservative “Bizarro World” thinking. It’s amusing to watch conservatives did their own political graves. At this rate, Repubs will be irrelevant for decades.
May 3rd, 2007 at 7:45 pm“At this rate, Repubs will be irrelevant for decades.”
Indeed, Bluedog49, indeed.
In the end, the autopsy will reveal that an entire political movment died of one embarassingly inane self-inflicted wound after another.
“Apparently, whilst trying to hang himself, the victim fell off a building into the path of a moving bus right after he shot himself while cleaning a gun and gargling styrchnine at the same time.”
May 3rd, 2007 at 7:51 pmObviously qualified for a ’statesmanship’ award. Only in never neverland.
May 3rd, 2007 at 8:03 pmIn other news, the Those That Agree With Bush Foundation have issued a declaration that they do, in fact, agree with Bush.
May 3rd, 2007 at 8:07 pmPass out the barf bags please.
May 3rd, 2007 at 8:08 pm#19.
May 3rd, 2007 at 8:13 pmWhereupon, they all adjourned to the Ministry of Silly Walks and heckled the weekly meeting of the Society For Putting Things on Top of One Another.
Claremont the Clown Institute.
May 3rd, 2007 at 8:21 pmwell, it’s about time.
May 3rd, 2007 at 8:31 pmI wonder if the award is in the shape of an Iron Cross, or perhaps an Iron toilet. Perhaps a rifle with a bullet dripping out of the barrel.
May 3rd, 2007 at 8:45 pmAre the clowns at Claremont drinking their own urine, or are they playing with drugs supplied by dubya?
May 3rd, 2007 at 9:09 pmFurther, this sounds like the $500,000,000.00 (that’s five hundred million US dollars) that dubya and his friends want to spend on a so-called presidential library where many hundreds would be very gainfuly employed as revisionists of history.
May 3rd, 2007 at 9:16 pmHope a lot of people show up on November 17 to help commerate this wonderful award.
Is this like my daughter’s teeball league where everyone gets a trophy?
May 3rd, 2007 at 9:22 pmIf reports are true, 2 days before Rummy was canned he sent a memo to Bush saying the war was unwinnable and that we should start making a plan to get our troops out. Wonder what the Claremont Institute would think about that.
May 3rd, 2007 at 10:48 pmStill waiting for Bush to give Rummy the Medal of Freedom.
May 3rd, 2007 at 11:21 pmHopefully it’s really a sting operation like when they invite a bunch of dirtballs with arrest
May 4th, 2007 at 12:56 amwarrants down the banquet hall to collect their “Free Super Bowl Tickets” and then cart them off
to jail.
Criminals love giving little awards to WAR CRIMINALS that is what the REPUKIAN MAFIA does, they like the loyal criminals that support the MAFIA FAMILY, and of course the must bow to the DON GWB, and like kiss his a$$ or some other repukian sick act of some kind or another.
Bush rewarding failure with metals one criminal at a time.
Hating the Repukian Mafia daily
May 4th, 2007 at 1:06 amWhat else is new. Do wrong, you get rewarded. Great lesson to teach the future of America.
May 4th, 2007 at 1:30 amI was born in Pomona, California, and raised in Claremont. My hometown is very liberal Democrat city with colleges. This so-called GOPer Institute there is an outrage and it giving Rummy an award is outrageous.
May 4th, 2007 at 1:32 amForgot one: “You go to war with the army you have.”
Classic, Rummy…always thinking with someone else’s head.
May 4th, 2007 at 3:02 amOil law animation
A MUST WATCH TO UNDERSTAND WHAT BUSH IS UP TO only last 1 minutes and leaves you so informed……………..
http://www.handsoffiraqioil.org/
May 4th, 2007 at 8:10 amYou destroy a state and you get an award for statesmanship. You spread hatered on the US airwaves and you get to name yourself a Nobel peace price nominee, you funk up your job as head of FEMA as bad as you possibly can in an Emergency and you get praise from the president…. And yet, you tell the people you have a dream of everyone living in peace and you get shot. You tell people they should all learn to get along and you get shot. Am I in the bizarro universe?!
May 4th, 2007 at 8:46 am“The Claremont Institute, a conservative California think tank…”
As in… think, “Tank, gun, money, power, violence, control, fear, hatred, divide and rule…”
Or think, “Where’s my tank so I can run and hide and not think or face reality.”
Or think, “Our thinking tanked again.”
Martin Gifford.
May 5th, 2007 at 8:43 pm