Rumsfeld Shopping Memoir On Iraq Failures For ‘Large Cash Advance’
Rumsfeld Shopping Memoir On Iraq Failures For ‘Large Cash Advance’
The ever-shrinking group of Americans who believe invading Iraq was a good idea may soon receive some support, in the form of a memoir by one of its key architects, Donald Rumsfeld.
The former defense secretary has the publishing world “abuzz” over the possibility that he may write a book “justifying the military strategy for the war in Iraq.”
While a deal has not yet been struck, Mr. Rumsfeld has toured New York publishing houses with an outline of his book in an effort to gauge how much information he would have to disclose in the memoir in order to justify a large cash advance. [...]
[T]he Web site Galleycat reported a sighting last month of Mr. Rumsfeld visiting Penguin books, whose Sentinel imprint specializes in conservative subjects, and he is believed to have spoken with five or six other New York-based publishers to test the waters and learn more about the process.
Rumsfeld’s memoir is unlikely to be deeply revelatory or candid about the administration’s failures. When Bush’s former Treasury Secretary Paul O’Neill authored a highly critical account of the White House, Rumsfeld called him to complain. “‘What is this business? Someone tells me you’re going to write a, you know, one of those’ — what do you call them? Sour grapes or — you know, one of those insider things,” Rumsfeld said he told O’Neill.
Moreover, Rumsfeld — who once authored “Rumsfeld’s Rules,” a manual that encouraged presidential aides to quickly address mistakes — has suggested he won’t concede any mistakes in the Iraq war strategy. Rumsfeld said last year, “Of course the implication that there was something wrong with the war plan is amusing.” Indeed, “amusing” appears to be the best description for Rumsfeld’s forthcoming memoir.
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Raising “war profiteering” to a new level.
June 27th, 2007 at 11:03 amThey say, “Write what you know”. And if there’s one thing Rummy knows, it’s how to fail at the war in Iraq.
June 27th, 2007 at 11:06 amone hopes that this piece of garbage will be victim to numerous lawsuits once his treason is made public. he will probably get lucky and die first
June 27th, 2007 at 11:06 amblood profits… simple as that
June 27th, 2007 at 11:10 amI’d buy the book if the title is, “I Lied About Iraq and I’m Deeply Sorry.”
June 27th, 2007 at 11:11 amThis is great news.
I have been puzzled and paralyzed by our failure to control the hearts and minds of the Iraqi people. I do not understand why those who are sill alive aren’t grateful for all that we have done.
Don Rumsfeld always acted like he knew what he was doing. Now he’s putting a book together that will justify him even more.
I’m saving my money, because I want to know what really happened in Iraq, and why. Since all of Rumsfeld’s public statements have been wrong, he must have been holding a lot of the truth back for this book.
June 27th, 2007 at 11:11 amThe reason that he is visiting so many publishers is to find the one that won’t bother to fact check anything that he says.
June 27th, 2007 at 11:11 amCriminals shouldn’t be allowed to benefit monetarily from their crimes.
June 27th, 2007 at 11:12 amHoly shit. He’s going to profit on the backs of 3500+ dead Americans. This is unreal.
June 27th, 2007 at 11:12 amSee if the International Criminal Court will give him an adnvance – on his WAR CRIME TRIAL!!!
June 27th, 2007 at 11:12 amWhere do I send my check for the advanced copy. This will beat Potter for sure.
June 27th, 2007 at 11:12 am“he won’t concede any mistakes in the Iraq war strategy.”
Why would he? It has gone just the way the neo-cons wanted it to go. No mistakes at all in their eyes.
June 27th, 2007 at 11:13 amI would not pay one dime for his book filled with bullcrap and lies.
June 27th, 2007 at 11:14 amRumsfeld is a very deluded psychopath. However, there are many fools that also believe in intelligent design that will probably read this garbage.
June 27th, 2007 at 11:17 amThe only place this piece of crap for a human being should be publishing his memoirs is the walls of a cell in GITMO.
These assholes know, no bounds!
June 27th, 2007 at 11:18 amDoesn’t this tool have enough blood money?
June 27th, 2007 at 11:18 amI trust it will be printed on soft and pliable paper so that I can use it for the appropriate purpose without suffering additional discomfort.
June 27th, 2007 at 11:20 amAnother traitor set to profit from his lies.
If there’s ever a time I wish there was a heaven and hell, it is now, so these pigs would have a place to rot in eternal damnation, sodomized by the almighty prince of darkness (assuming they would NOT enjoy it.)
June 27th, 2007 at 11:22 amMaddie > Rummy’s basement at his home in Taos, New Mexico, is probably stacked with those missing shrink-wrapped bricks of 100 dollar bills that vanished in Iraq, but he is still greedy for more money.
June 27th, 2007 at 11:22 amThey are all set very well.Writing books, speeches seems to be were the big moeny is.
June 27th, 2007 at 11:23 amC. Powell.. General Frank.. and now Rummy cashing big time. Giuliani also cashing big time on 9/11…and now he wants to be the President.
So there is no surprise here about Rummy looking for a nice advance from a publisher.
Rummy Dummy.
June 27th, 2007 at 11:24 amPoor Rummy, he needs more money to upgrade his compound in Arroyo Seco, NM to protect himself from all those nasty people who want to have him arrested on war crime charges.
http://www.foodnotbombs.net/war_criminal_rumsfeld.html
I truly feel sorry for the rest of the people in that beautiful part of the world who has to have him for a neighbor!!
June 27th, 2007 at 11:25 amSince Valerie Plame’s book couldn’t get approval (even though what they disputed her including was already documented and released information – go figure), I wonder how Tenet and Rummy get the pass.
Gee, I wonder. Who could be responsible? Hmmm…could it be SATAN? (using my best Church Lady voice)
June 27th, 2007 at 11:26 amBut will it have pictures to color?
Why else would the Deciderer “read” it?
June 27th, 2007 at 11:26 amRepublic, but, but, but he read CAMUS. (uh huh, yup, right)
June 27th, 2007 at 11:28 amI wonder how Tenet and Rummy get the pass.
Comment by MsJoanne
Because, technically speaking, both Tenet’s and Rummy’s books s/b classified as “Fiction”, or perhaps even “Fantasy”, and if bookstores had them, perhaps even shelved in the “Pure Bullcr*p” and “Outright Lies” sections.
June 27th, 2007 at 11:28 amHAGUE! HAGUE! HAGUE! HAGUE!
June 27th, 2007 at 11:29 amBet you some Fox owned publisher will give him multiple millions in blood money
June 27th, 2007 at 11:30 amOH, RIGHT! I forgot about that whole nasty Truth business. Why on earth would we want truth when we can have such a wonderful life in the fictional world of Bush.
June 27th, 2007 at 11:30 amGotta read this book, surely the man is a controversy. I do not support the Iraq war from the get go… but if I ignore Rumsfeld’s book is like I ignore the why we are still at war in Iraq.
Reading but don’t have to believing in what you reading is harder to do than reading and just believing. Let see what will Rumsfeld tell in his book eh people?
June 27th, 2007 at 11:31 amWhat, this guy isn’t rich enough already???
June 27th, 2007 at 11:32 am#28 Bet you some Fox owned publisher will give him multiple millions in blood money
Comment by whenwego
Then he can tour with Mann Coultergeist and be on Softball with Chris Matthews and sell to all the 28%ers who will read anything that will support their fantasy of how the world really is.
June 27th, 2007 at 11:33 amMurdoch will throw Rummy some Repub welfare.
June 27th, 2007 at 11:33 amHarper Collins anyone?
it’ll be selling for a penny on Amazon.com just like mAnn Coulter’s did.
June 27th, 2007 at 11:33 amRepublic, but, but, but he read CAMUS. (uh huh, yup, right)
Comment by MsJoanne
Actually, MsJoanne, that was a misunderstanding (what else?). Bruschâ„¢ actually thought he was reading a book on “Camels”. I mean, after “My Little Goat” what would be more natural?
Similarly, when he was in Albania, he thought he was in Alabama (and which of us wouldn’t make THAT mistake?), so he started calling the Albanians “my fellow Americans”. The Albanians all thought he meant they were going to be made American citizens, which explains all the cheering.
June 27th, 2007 at 11:33 amOH, RIGHT! I forgot about that whole nasty Truth business.
Comment by MsJoanne
See? Your day is already getting better. The sky is bluer, the sun is brighter, the flowers are flowering, the children is learning.
Welcome to The No Fact Left Untrampled Zoneâ„¢!!!
June 27th, 2007 at 11:37 amRummy looks like he needs a boatload of Ex-Lax.
June 27th, 2007 at 11:38 amI know! He could call it “If I Did It, Here’s How It Happened”. Oopss, that title is already taken..
June 27th, 2007 at 11:38 amI’ve been wondering what that snake has been up to. Better he write books than running the shadow government with Cheney!
http://www.theillustrateddailyscribble.com/daily.scribble.pages.05/01.24.05.html
June 27th, 2007 at 11:41 amSnark attack!!!
June 27th, 2007 at 11:43 amWhy is Don so money-hungry? Is a $50 million worth not enough for him? Is that not enough to retire on?
He does collect a sizeable government pension, I assume.
June 27th, 2007 at 11:46 amWord is that he’s the still the Secretary of Defense. He’s still fullfilling all of the duties of SecDef while Gates is the Secretary pro-temp, disguised to be the “full” Defense Secretary before the cameras.
June 27th, 2007 at 11:49 amDumsfeld is a gazillionaire. Guess he doesn’t have enough.
June 27th, 2007 at 11:50 amDoes he still have desk at the DoD?
Does he still have 6 staffers to boss around?
Are we still paying his sorry ass?
So many questions; so few answers!
June 27th, 2007 at 11:53 am” He does collect a sizeable government pension, I assume.
Comment by CT V_1 — June 27, 2007 @ 11:46 am”
Pension???? He is still at the Pentagon……..
He has his own office and staff still…….
He has not gone anywhere.
June 27th, 2007 at 11:55 amI see one shelf taken up in the G.W. Bush Liebrary. Only question is which section it will be in. Lies or Distortions.
June 27th, 2007 at 11:56 amIt’s going to be a tough sell. A book that is only filled with neocon propaganda isn’t going to interest Amazon customers when Bush and Cheney are still spewing it for free. Now, if Rummy could manage a few juicy sex scandals, publishers would be beating a path to his door.
June 27th, 2007 at 11:58 amThe theocons set out to make all of their cronies rich. They have and continue to do so. Where is the failure in that?
June 27th, 2007 at 11:59 amWord is that he’s the still the Secretary of Defense. He’s still fullfilling all of the duties of SecDef while Gates is the Secretary pro-temp, disguised to be the “full†Defense Secretary before the cameras. Comment by CT V_1 — June 27, 2007 @ 11:49 am
That would explain the continuing failures in Iraq. Incompetence knows no bounds, when a NeoCon implements it.
June 27th, 2007 at 12:02 pmI’d buy the book if the title is, “I Lied About Iraq and I’m Deeply Sorry.â€
Comment by AkaDad — June 27, 2007 @ 11:11 am
How about “I offer to confess my war crimes and will plead guilty to charges. When and where do I surrender to prison officials?”
June 27th, 2007 at 12:03 pmThese nutjobs think if they repeat their lies often enough they will become true. They all do the same thing and so do their supporters. It’s sick. Sad thing is, there are so many idiots in America that actually believe these lies. A recent poll showed that 42% of Americans believe that Iraq had something to do with 9/11, so their strategy works.
Did you read that the FBI is trying to control students’ travel to foreign countries and want them to “check with authorities” before they share ideas with their colleagues? That they want them to report “suspicious” activity of their fellow students? This is becoming more and more Nazi like every day. Now they want students to turn each other in? To control their travel and academic discussion?
June 27th, 2007 at 12:03 pmLast I heard of that happening was in Nazi Germany.
Something has got to be done to stop their neocons!
“Last I heard of that happening was in Nazi Germany.
Something has got to be done to stop their neocons!
Comment by Justice — June 27, 2007 @ 12:03 pm”
Actually, it is more closely modeled toward the USSR erra…..
Even today, most Russians will not look at a person when walking down the street or even speak to someone they don’t know.
June 27th, 2007 at 12:06 pmHe going to write a book about how he is a giant f-up.
June 27th, 2007 at 12:06 pmWouldn’t the Son of Sam law apply to Rumsfeld in New York?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Son_of_Sam_laws
June 27th, 2007 at 12:09 pmThat’s our Rummy – still trying to squeeze a few more million out of the human misery he created!
June 27th, 2007 at 12:10 pmRumsfeld denies making claims Iraq had WMDs
‘Never said that … never did,’ defense secretary now asserts
By ERIC ROSENBERG
P-I WASHINGTON BUREAU
WASHINGTON — Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld tried to rewrite history last week when he denied making prewar claims that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction.
Rumsfeld’s latest effort at backtracking on his prewar statements came Thursday at a contentious public forum in Atlanta when he faced a handful of hecklers and an anti-war questioner in the audience, who charged that he had lied about Saddam having weapons of mass destruction, which was President Bush’s chief rationale for invading the country and starting the war.
The Pentagon chief denied he had lied and said he had relied on official intelligence reports about Saddam’s weapons.
His questioner persisted: “You said you knew where they were.”
Rumsfeld: “I did not. I said I knew where ’suspect’ sites were.”
(Seattle Post, Monday May 8 2007 – Link: http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/269394_rumsfeld08.html)
June 27th, 2007 at 12:12 pmAnother member of that exclusive club where they think they are geniuses in their own minds.
June 27th, 2007 at 12:17 pmHe could try OJ’s publisher, since “How I Did It” is now just a title without a book …
June 27th, 2007 at 12:36 pmThe “large cash advance” thing is nonsense. Rumsfeld has a net worth of hundreds of millions, mostly from his time as a pharma CEO. Any advance would be no more than a drop in the bucket. It’s clearly not about the money.
June 27th, 2007 at 12:45 pmRemainder tables across America groan in anticipation.
June 27th, 2007 at 12:48 pmRummy’s known knowns don’t come cheap.
June 27th, 2007 at 1:13 pmLet’s see….. Dubya will go live in mom’s basement on the ranch in Paraguay (no extradition). Darth will live in his Sand Castle on the gulf in Dubai (no extradition). So wonder where Rummy will go, as New Mexico DOES have extradition.
June 27th, 2007 at 1:20 pmRummy’s Big Book of Lies and Incompetence.
June 27th, 2007 at 1:28 pmUmm.. what happened to my posts?
June 27th, 2007 at 1:29 pmI heard Bush and the Republicans are coming out with an Iraq War Tax so all good Americans can show their patriotism and “put their money where their mouth is” Can anybody give me any detials on this?
June 27th, 2007 at 1:39 pmHoly shit. He’s going to profit on the backs of 3500+ dead Americans. This is unreal.
Comment by Punchy
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This is America.
June 27th, 2007 at 1:41 pmThe “large cash advance†thing is nonsense. Rumsfeld has a net worth of hundreds of millions, mostly from his time as a pharma CEO. Any advance would be no more than a drop in the bucket. It’s clearly not about the money.
Comment by JayR
“large cash advance†is a TP created headline to grab your attention TP lemmings. Let the feeding frenzy begin.
June 27th, 2007 at 1:43 pmThe “large cash advance†thing is nonsense. Rumsfeld has a net worth of hundreds of millions, mostly from his time as a pharma CEO. Any advance would be no more than a drop in the bucket. It’s clearly not about the money.
Comment by JayR
Then Redrummy surely will donate the proceeds from the book to wounded American veterans of the war, for whom it wouldn’t be “a drop in the bucket?”
June 27th, 2007 at 1:49 pmI would purchase his book so long as it was written while serving jail time in excess of twenty years.
June 27th, 2007 at 2:09 pmYou profited on the war while in office
You profited from the American Tax dollar
You have profited against moral, ethic values
You should repay the profits from any sale or any material
that you held against the American Tax dollar and its people.
You are a man with no values or ethical standings
It should be against the law to make a book or any other material for at lease 6 years after leaving office.
You did not have the best interest of America in your value chart, what makes you think you are able to profit on information that was changed, altered, hyped, and lied about to the American Tax payer!
What you want to come clean NOW!? Words can not express what I would really write about!
June 27th, 2007 at 3:05 pmRumsfeld was always a shameless guttersnipe. Only Regnery or Eagle Publishing would that disgusting that they would publish the book.
June 27th, 2007 at 3:12 pmThere’s still a lot of mentally challenged individuals out there who will pay money to read Rummy’s nonsense.
June 27th, 2007 at 3:15 pmBush/Cheney/Rumsfeld succeeded in promoting the misguided and destructive war in Iraq by targeting our core concerns about vulnerability, injustice, distrust, superiority, and helplessness. Looking ahead, the current administration will likely try to sell us a continuing occupation of Iraq—or an attack on Iran—in much the same way. I examine these warmongering appeals and how to counter them in a new 10-minute video entitled “Resisting the Drums of War.” It’s available for viewing on YouTube HERE.
June 27th, 2007 at 4:45 pmWow, that’s gonna be one expensive, revolting doorstop. Coming soon to a remainders table near you!
June 27th, 2007 at 6:06 pmmullah cimoc say
usa control media so sophisticate make all ameriki brain for not remember lies for start him iraq invasion.
this word “neocon” not allow say in usa media. this word now CENSORED. if ameriki say this word usa control media accuse this man of the anti semite for use this word.
but in true him neocon most him the israeli citizen or him wife israeli citizen. who am mr. william kristol. am he neocon? mr. david wurmser, mr. dov zakheim??
mullah cimoc call this war
“rose petal war”. But these rose petals blowing up every day.
Ameriki need for understand him country control by masters in tel aviv. usa not free now just slave and control mind television.
google: mighty wurlitzer +cia for historical of the understand.
June 27th, 2007 at 8:59 pmHey! Does anyone know from what location where Don Rumsfeld is authoring his memoirs that he is shopping? Guess?
Right — US Government offices in Crystal City, VA, just a few steps away from the Pentagon. WHy is that. Why is he still on the DOD payroll? Why does he still have a DOD paid staff? Who approved this? Who knows about this?
Write your Congressman, Senators, and the President. If you were to “leave” your job, would you expect to be given an office, a staff and pay so that you could write your memoirs? Isn’t this an abuse of taxpayers?
June 28th, 2007 at 7:42 am