Introducing ‘Ideology And Terror’ Expert Donald Rumsfeld
Introducing ‘Ideology And Terror’ Expert Donald Rumsfeld
Yesterday, Stanford University’s Hoover Institution announced that Donald Rumsfeld has been appointed as a distinguished visiting fellow. The AP reports:
“Rumsfeld will serve on a task force of scholars and experts who will focus on issues pertaining to ‘ideology and terror,’ the conservative think tank announced Friday in a press release.”
Hoover director John Raisian said Rumsfeld will offer strategic direction on how the U.S. should proceed in a post 9/11 world. “I have asked Don to join the distinguished group of scholars that will pursue new insights on the direction of thinking that the United States might consider going forward.”
You have to hand it to Hoover — post 9/11 “ideology and terror” is what Rumsfeld knows best. Here’s his impressive resume:
– Compared Iraq war critics to Hitler appeasers and Stalinists
– Called Iraq war critics “quitters” who “blame America first” and “cannot stomach a tough fight”
– Claimed insurgent violence increases “in the spring, summer and fall months”
– Warned terrorists were carrying out violence because they wanted a change in leadership here in the U.S.
– Said war critics were manipulated by bin Laden’s “media committees“
Rumsfeld has previously said he plans to open a research foundation of his own to teach about “U.S. engagement in world affairs.”
The Hoover Institution boasts of having a roster full of luminaries of the right, including Dinesh D’Souza, Victor Davis Hanson, and Condoleezza Rice. Founded by President Herbert Hoover in 1919, the Institution is funded in large part by right-wing philanthropist Richard Mellon Scaife.
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Rumsfeld is only an expert on stupidity and corruption.
September 8th, 2007 at 11:19 amOh fer kreissakes, the neocon PNAC ideology fuxpert that unleashes terror on the wrong effing country, without enough troops to secure the ammo dumps that are then raided and used to kill our troops?
September 8th, 2007 at 11:21 amThat expert??
GFY Rummy, you complete has been.
Looking at the pic of Dicky and Rummy together > they look like a secret Brokeback Mountain couple. GOPers tend to marry women just as a cover.
September 8th, 2007 at 11:24 amThe big money is behind Rummy. He will go down in history as a man who failed, but was nonetheless an “honorable” fellow who did his “best.” Remember, folks, wealthy people — not serfs like you and me — write the history books. Just look at Ronald Reagan’s legacy. They named a freakin airport after the idiot. LOL!!
September 8th, 2007 at 11:26 amThere’s enough Big Pharma money behind Rumpsfelt to keep him propped up and pickled for decades.
September 8th, 2007 at 11:30 amCorsair > not all historians can be bought off. Rummy will be listed someday as just a Bush Regime stooge, like Goebbels is listed as a Hitler stooge.
September 8th, 2007 at 11:32 amThese people are nuts.
Arkansas Republican Party Chairman Dennis Milligan:
“At the end of the day, I believe fully the president is doing the right thing, and I think all we need is some attacks on American soil like we had on [Sept. 11, 2001 ], and the naysayers will come around very quickly to appreciate not only the commitment for President Bush, but the sacrifice that has been made by men and women to protect this country,†Milligan said.
I think Mr P is really this guy Milligan
September 8th, 2007 at 11:33 amJay, I hope you’re right. But, at least for the rest of OUR lives, Rummy will be considered an “honorable” yet “flawed” man. Perhaps in 100 years, historians will have a more sober view of Rumsfeld’s war criminal activities. I think history is much more accurate many decades or centuries later, not 20 or 30-years later. Too many powerful corporate interests want to keep the neoCon legacy alive and “respectable.” There is an entire industry today that propagates the Ronald Reagan myth. LOL. (BTW, I think “Ronald Reagan National Airport” won’t last for more than 50 years. The name will be changed to a future false idol to fit another corporate agenda of a future era.)
September 8th, 2007 at 11:41 am….and you can be the Dean of Stupids
September 8th, 2007 at 11:41 amspeaking of Ideology and terrorism anybody read Ossama Bin Laden full speech
http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/ i/ msnbc/ sections/ news/ 070907_bin_laden_transcript.pdf
September 8th, 2007 at 11:41 amOld Rummy has to do something.
September 8th, 2007 at 11:42 amterror expert? yes… in causing it, not prevention of it…
September 8th, 2007 at 11:44 amjackass
Corsair in 40 or 50 years the true history of the criminal Bush Regime will be published. That is IF the world still exists 40 years from now. Bush still has 15 months to kill us all by setting off global World War III.
September 8th, 2007 at 11:46 amUK Withdrawing 500 Troops From Iraq
September 8th, 2007 at 11:48 amWill Rummy wear his combat boots around the Stanford campus too?
September 8th, 2007 at 12:16 pmHEY !!!
why ever did you delete my definition of “philanthropist”
from dictionarydotcom???
!
September 8th, 2007 at 12:16 pmOnly the best can join, lefties. You’re not one of them.
(Condi for Stanford President!)
Comment by Dean CT — September 8, 2007 @ 11:33 am
No lefty would attend a college for traitors, Stanford now being the leader, just another christofascist madrassa. Stanford is world-renowned for teaching treason, and hiring failures. I wouldn’t go there if THEY paid ME!
September 8th, 2007 at 12:18 pm“Only the best can join, lefties. You’re not one of them.”
There is a disagreement between the plural of the first sentence and the singular of the second sentence. I guess you didn’t attend one of the better colleges your own bad self, huh?
September 8th, 2007 at 12:21 pmNice, Bernard, nice.
September 8th, 2007 at 12:23 pmEvery time I see the name of that think tank, the Hoover Institution, I have to wonder how they could possibly take pride in naming themselves after one of the worst and most ineffectual Presidents in history. But I guess that since Donald Rump’sFilled was prominent in the administration of another of this nation’s worst Presidents in history, he fits right in.
September 8th, 2007 at 12:26 pmlike i said, if there is anything that scaife is NOT it’s a philanthropist…
phi·lan·thro·pist –noun
September 8th, 2007 at 12:29 pma person who practices philanthropy.
[…]
phi·lan·thro·py (fÄ-lÄn’thrÉ™-pÄ“) Pronunciation Key
n. pl. phi·lan·thro·pies
1. The effort or inclination to increase the well-being of humankind, as by charitable aid or donations.
2. Love of humankind in general.
3. Something, such as an activity or institution, intended to promote human welfare.
Yes, there they are, Tweedle Dumb and Tweedle Dumber.
September 8th, 2007 at 12:30 pmO.K. TP., who is the hack in there deleting comments? Let me do this one again.
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Rummy will an expert for six days, six weeks, but definitely not more than six months.
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September 8th, 2007 at 12:47 pmHoover Institute has very low standards. Dinesh D’Souza, anyone? Come on.
September 8th, 2007 at 12:48 pmphi·lan·thro·py- 2. Love of humankind in general.
That makes sense, in the Greek ‘philos’ = love; ‘anthros’ = man or mankind.
September 8th, 2007 at 12:58 pm
When it comes to Project for a New American Century ideology and waging preemptive terror for oil resources, he’s the expert.
September 8th, 2007 at 1:07 pmI wonder if he has learned that people won’t greet him as a liberator. They are more inclined to shoot back.
Founded by Herbert Hoover! How appropriate…the president who mismanaged the greatest depression in American history founded a “think [sic] tank” featuring the men who mismanaged the most spectacularly unsuccessful foreign affairs in the nation’s history. Shame on Stanford for promoting these losers.
September 8th, 2007 at 1:27 pmFounded by Herbert Hoover!
Comment by candideinnc — September 8, 2007 @ 1:27 pm
Shit, and here I was thinkin this was a think tank for vacuum cleaners.
September 8th, 2007 at 1:39 pmOf course he’s an expert on terror organizations - he helped support them in the 1980s!
September 8th, 2007 at 1:49 pmStanford costs so much because its a disorganized mess of egos and because of the buffoons it collects to give the student body a “hoover” institute.
September 8th, 2007 at 2:15 pm“Comment by toasterhead — September 8, 2007 @ 1:49 pm
Traitor. Muslim.
Comment by Mr P — September 8, 2007 @ 2:35 pm”
Dirtbag. Ball of snot.
September 8th, 2007 at 2:38 pmRichard Mellon Scaife…
is an enemy of the people! He has funded (through abused 501(c)3 org.s) much of the facist, reich-wing, Christianista, RACIST attacks against The Constitution, The Courts, The Congress and Senate.
Richard Mellon Scaife is a VIRAL INFECTION upon this land and great nation!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
September 8th, 2007 at 3:47 pmMethinks mandatory drug testing should be required of all who work for, or support, the Hoover Institution, especially the new inductees.
September 8th, 2007 at 4:17 pmI agree with #33 …Richard Mellon Scaife is our #1 Funding Enemy. He is responsible for a hell of a lot of money being thrown into the destruction of America in the pursuit of neocon and neochristian power pursuits. The man himself is the epitomy of a hate-filled pig.
But I didn’t realize until now that Stanford was so corporately integrated. First Condi, and now Rummy are on their payroll.
September 8th, 2007 at 4:40 pmEvery time I see the name of that think tank, the Hoover Institution, I have to wonder how they could possibly take pride in naming themselves after one of the worst and most ineffectual Presidents in history. But I guess that since Donald Rump’sFilled was prominent in the administration of another of this nation’s worst Presidents in history, he fits right in.
Comment by Starve-A-Bush_Feed-A-Beaver — September 8, 2007 @ 12:26 pm
Maybe it was secretly named after J Edgar, the Man-love FBI Director.
September 8th, 2007 at 5:16 pmPlease note that the Hoover is independent of Stanford University.
Fred Seamon
September 8th, 2007 at 5:17 pmUS Army retired
Vietnam Vet
Stanford, MA ‘71
Hey! Where’s Jakey to defend “his alma mater”? Guess that continues to prove his made-up life.
September 8th, 2007 at 5:18 pmMaybe it was secretly named after J Edgar, the Man-love FBI Director.
Comment by upside00 — September 8, 2007 @ 5:16 pm
Or… the vacuum cleaner that can suck the chrome from a trailer hitch just like a Repugniscum.
September 8th, 2007 at 5:24 pmRummy’s also getting an award from the Claremont Institute this November:
http://www.claremont.org/ events/ eventid.94/ event_detail.asp
September 8th, 2007 at 11:52 pmDaaaaamn…
…no wonder Iraq’s so screwed up…
…Rummy’s got short-man complex…
September 9th, 2007 at 1:47 amDo they allow board meetings at the Hague? Doesn’t Donnie have a prior engagement?
September 9th, 2007 at 8:57 amBut where is Rummies PRESIDENTIAL MEDAL OF FREEDOM?
September 9th, 2007 at 10:03 am“Please note that the Hoover is independent of Stanford University.
Fred Seamon
US Army retired
Vietnam Vet
Stanford, MA ‘71
Comment by Lt. Colonel Fred Seamon — September 8, 2007 @ 5:17 ”
Hey Fred, “Independent”? Bullshit! - take a look at http://www.hoover.org/ the Stanford logo is right there on the page and it has copyright © 2007 by the Board of Trustees of Leland Stanford Junior University at the bottom!
..and now, why don’t you tell us all about how the domino theory of world geopolitics played out in Vietnam and what we should do about it?
September 9th, 2007 at 11:34 amMellon-Scaife? Is this unemployment compensation for extreme right wing f@@@-ups?
September 9th, 2007 at 4:48 pm