Rumsfeld: ‘I Have Not Even Attempted’ To Follow What’s Going On In Iraq, Too Busy ‘Arranging My Papers’
Rumsfeld: ‘I Have Not Even Attempted’ To Follow What’s Going On In Iraq, Too Busy ‘Arranging My Papers’
In an interview with Fox News last night, former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld — one of the key architects of the Iraq disaster — was asked whether he currently “pays attention to specifics about what’s going on day to day in Iraq.”
Rumsfeld responded by claiming it’s impossible to follow events when you’re “on the outside.” He then added that he doesn’t have time to follow what’s going on in Iraq because he’s too busy with administrative tasks:
I’ve been very busy doing a series of things: setting up an office and hiring staff, arranging my papers to give to the Library of Congress, setting up a new foundation…
Rumsfeld re-emphasized the point, concluding his answer by stating: “So I’ve been busy doing those kinds of things and I have not even attempted stay as current as one would if you were in the government, constantly seeing all the intelligence and information.” Watch it:
The Hoover Institution recently announced that Rumsfeld would join the think tank as an “ideology and terror expert.” Rumsfeld has previously announced he is working on setting up a new foundation for the next generation of Donald Rumsfelds to study and grow. He is also in the process of authoring a book and was reportedly shopping it around in the hopes of receiving a “large cash advance.”
Book publishers had expressed “tepid interest” in a Rumsfeld memoir that talked about his six years under Bush. The New York Post reported Rumsfeld was re-tooling the book, and “he now plans to make it a full-blown autobiography rather than simply a treatment of his six years in the cabinet.” Asked if he was writing a book, Rumsfeld told Fox News:
I might. I’m thinking about it. A lot of people are urging me to do it. I’ve not made a decision. If I did, it would not be a quick-and-dirty thing, and the money from it, I would put into the foundation that I’ve just established — in the process of establishing.
It would probably be a memoir that would run the full span, back through the Depression and World War II and my life as opposed to the last 15 minutes.
Rumsfeld has too many things on his plate to worry about the catastrophe he helped create in Iraq.
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September 15th, 2007 at 11:51 amfootsore
maybe when he’s indicted for war crimes at the hague, he’ll start to take notice…
September 15th, 2007 at 11:57 amAnd, yes, I DO take it personally
Remember when Rumsfeld said the U.S. would be in Iraq for “weeks, not months”? What an ignorant, irresponsible piece of filth.
September 15th, 2007 at 11:57 amHe is too busy getting his things in order to flee to a safe country to avoid being tried for war crimes.
September 15th, 2007 at 12:00 pmAre you kidding, Rummy? Impossible to follow events? Ever heard of this thing called “the Internet”? Lots of Iraq news on that.
I’m afraid this just puts a spotlight on Rumsfeld’s real priorities – as they have been all along. His own agenda, his own interests, and the interests of the moneyed elite. Rumsfeld has never had any interest in making Iraq a safer place, bringing democracy to the Middle East, or any of the other high-minded hypocrisies this administration has been spouting since January, 2001.
How can people become so sick and twisted? We need to make some changes in our own political system, before we try foisting it off on the rest of the world.
September 15th, 2007 at 12:08 pmRummy taking a little time to shread some documents and attempting to polish the ole legacy.
I think we’re still paying him to do that.
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September 15th, 2007 at 12:10 pmum, liar.
September 15th, 2007 at 12:11 pmi cant imagine anyone beyond Judith Regan would be interested in his book.
September 15th, 2007 at 12:12 pmi was startled that no one in the media mentioned Rumsfeld’s assertion that Iraq would take “6 days, 6 weeks…i doubt 6 months” in the post-analysis of Bush’s TEN MORE YEARS speech.
September 15th, 2007 at 12:13 pmRummy better get his papers in order.
September 15th, 2007 at 12:14 pmIn order to prepare a defense at the Hague.
You people are absolutely nuts, and it shows.
There is no catastrophe in Iraq. There is an ongoing fight to defeat terrorists who are disrupting political and social progress in Iraq. President Bush said from the beginning that this fight would take us to many theaters of battle, and would take many decades.
There will be no trial for war crimes, for there were no “war crimes” commited by Rumsfeld.
And why should he intently follow the Iraq situation? He was continuously publicly criticized by Democrats and others on the fringe left in the basest terms for the way he ran the war, just as he is here today.
You would wanted him out of the picture, and he is. Now it sounds like you want him back.
Fact is, he has been more successful in his life than 100% of the posters on kook liberal blogs…so it just sounds like “Rumsfeld Envy” to me.
September 15th, 2007 at 12:17 pmWhoops…added a word there…
Sentence should have read:
“You wanted him out of the picture, and he is. Now it sounds like you want him back.”
September 15th, 2007 at 12:20 pmStatements like “there is no catastrophe in Iraq,” like Rumsfeld’s pre-war myopia and blindness, show why rightwingers can’t win wars. They don’t have what it takes: regular contact with reality. They live in Fantasyland.
September 15th, 2007 at 12:24 pmThere is no catastrophe in Iraq.
US surge has failed – Iraqi poll
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/6983841.stm
This is how I define catastrophe.
The survey for the BBC, ABC News and NHK of more than 2,000 people across Iraq also suggests that nearly 60% see attacks on US-led forces as justified.
Perhaps the sun has to explode for largeped to call it catastrophe.
September 15th, 2007 at 12:27 pmThe really telling and pathological thing about neocons like Rumsfeld, Perle, Wolfowitz, and Bremer–they aren’t even trying to pretend like they give a shit about the hell they brought to Iraq. And Bush wonders why the Iraq failure will be his legacy–he need look no further than the losers he chose to lead the way.
September 15th, 2007 at 12:28 pmWhoops…added a word there…
Comment by O. Bigfoot
Try subtracting, alot of subtraction, next time.
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September 15th, 2007 at 12:29 pmYOU’RE absolutely nuts, bigfoot, and it shows-painfully.
September 15th, 2007 at 12:31 pmOT. Sorry…Nothing on the marches in DC.? CNN is doing a little coverage….
Rummy isn’t old new’s, just moldy and more for the war monger’s to chew on….My bet the phone’s still ring often from rummy, rove, gonzo and the shrub…..Not to mention wolfie….Old republiscum’s never die or leave their hatred and looting of america they just figure out better way’s to rape and plunder..
September 15th, 2007 at 12:32 pmF@ck you Donny. When you are tried at the Hague and hung, I’ll be the one applauding when you head is wrenched off.
September 15th, 2007 at 12:34 pmIf you’re wondering why the invasion of Iraq has failed to win the hearts and minds of Iraqis, consider the fact his invasion has killed as many Iraqi civilians as Saddam did. Awful, but true.
Human Rights Watch reports that Saddam killed 100,000 Kurdish Iraqis; another 500,000 are estimated to have died in Saddam’s needless war with Iran i.e., non-civilian deaths attributable to needless war. Bush’s invasion of Iraq has caused, by conservative estimates, 100,000 civilian deaths.
So Bush, who claimed the invasion was necessary to prevent Saddam from killing his own citizens, has now killed at least as many civilians as Saddam did.
What a tragedy.
http://wais.stanford.edu/ Iraq/ iraq_deathsundersaddamhussein42503.html
September 15th, 2007 at 12:37 pmSome comic book might pick him up, he can be the stupid hero
Rump-a-Dump.
He and Bigpoot can drive around the neighborhoods in their secret frozen delivery-mobile and inspect peoples garbage cans to see if there are any Weapons of Mass Decomposition.
September 15th, 2007 at 12:39 pmRumsfeld is directly responsible having NO PLAN for post Sadaam Iraq. He believed that America’s technological superiority would “shock and awe” the Iraqi’s into submission. HE WAS WRONG.
September 15th, 2007 at 12:39 pmThe Iraqi’s capitalized on America’s mistakes, and developed an effective, cheap, and deadly answer to our $400 billion a year Military…the Roadside Bomb.
They are exporting this tactic to terrorist and insurgent groups worldwide.
Now we have cut a deal, froming alliances with former Bathists and Iraqi Army . The Sunni’s are getting weapons and cash, and are no longer blowing up our troops. This , after four years and thousands of casualties.
No…any success in Iraq will be in Spite of Rumsfeld. Bush should have fired him after Abu Gharaib.
Typical republican diplomat. Screw everything up, then quit, blame it on the democrats, and then figure out how to profit from your screwups by selling books to idiots like bigfoot.
September 15th, 2007 at 12:40 pmI also hope I’m alive long enough to see someone suicide bomb the G.W.Bush LIEbrary. Maybe I’ll get lucky and see a serial killer remove the entire Bush bloodline. Ya gotta have dreams.
September 15th, 2007 at 12:40 pm“I have not even attempted stay as current as one would if you were in the government, constantly seeing all the intelligence and information.â€
even so… out of some semblance of respect, he wouldn’t need to be
as informed as a government official should be, but he could at least
pay “attention to specifics about what’s going on day to day in Iraq.†…
…
at least lie about it and SAY you do…
out of respect… ya know? …
…
pass this along to all the grieving families out there…
September 15th, 2007 at 12:41 pm.
Well, if ever there was an “ideology expert,†it’s Don Rumsfeld. Not sure that’s exactly what they have in mind; but nonetheless, the guy’s an “expert†all right.
September 15th, 2007 at 12:42 pmBigFoot is a plant – don’t be fooled anyone.
September 15th, 2007 at 12:46 pmBigTurd is a plant – don’t be fooled anyone!!
September 15th, 2007 at 12:46 pm
He’s done pretty well for himself, considering the highest he ever got in the military was flight instructor.
September 15th, 2007 at 12:48 pmWell, it sounds like he’s giving it about as much thought now as he did in the beginning.
Why isn’t this guy awaiting trial at The Hague? When will charges for crimes against humanity fly? Why is he still “amongst” the rest of us humans and not locked up someplace tight and secure where mass murderers and thieves and toturers are held awaiting judgement by their peers.
Where are all the assissins when you need one?
IMPEACH
INVESTIGATE
INDICT
IMPRISON! Rummy and the entire Bu$h cabal!
siri
September 15th, 2007 at 12:48 pmThat quickly he is able to dismiss the catastrophic tragedy of Iraq?
September 15th, 2007 at 12:50 pmIf I thought he was callous, cold, arrogant and dismissive before, I am certain now.
I find it mind-boggling that after hundreds of thousand of deaths, the dismemberment of thousand of innocent people, the exodus of a million Iraqis, the thousands of bombed out buildings, and the hundreds of billions of US dollars spent, some people are still defending Bush’s massive failures, blaming Democrats, and saying that it’s all a small price to pay. Maybe after you drink the Kool-Aid it’s not so mind-boggling???
September 15th, 2007 at 12:51 pmTo: O. Bigfoot
Subj: Your comments
You and Mr. Rumsfeld are both in need of either a mental enema or lobotomy. Maybe both.
The two of you are as far away from reality as though you are living in some “ethereal parallel universe”.
September 15th, 2007 at 12:55 pm#16 Sharon
September 15th, 2007 at 12:55 pmDon’t look for the msm to pay much attention to the people’s march in D.C. today. They can’t be bothered — not when there is another O.J. story to cover or a Britney fiasco.
I couldn’t arrange my schedule to be in D.C. today ( I went a couple of years ago) but I am with them in spirit.
When marches like this occur, there may be a hundred thousand people in attendance, but the media will barely mention it and if they do, they will only say a few thousand protest marchers were in D.C. today, end of story.
Hi, Sharon! Hi, Marie! When you’re done checking out TP, don’t forget to come visit the Zoo. We’d love to have you drop by. (But do go through TP’s articles, too. Not trying to steal customers.)
September 15th, 2007 at 12:59 pmis that right Mr Intellectually bankrupt
we dont do “Nation Building” friggin arsehole
September 15th, 2007 at 1:09 pmHe hasn’t been following the goings-on in Iraq. But that doesn’t stop him from charging $100,000 (is it more?) for a speech to a think-tank.
September 15th, 2007 at 1:13 pmOnce again Faiz plays you all like the morons he obviously believes you are.
This headline
‘I Have Not Even Attempted’ To Follow What’s Going On In Iraq, Too Busy ‘Arranging My Papers’
is so erroneous and deceptive it boarders on libelous but you stooges uncritically run with it.
Rummy is gone, I know you are addicted to the hate but MOVE ON toadies.
September 15th, 2007 at 1:13 pmYou, too, Tobey Tall. When you’re through looking through TP, drop on by the Zoo. It’s an international community of posters.
September 15th, 2007 at 1:15 pmRummy’s & Bush’s vindictive streaks are as wide and as long as their yellow streaks
September 15th, 2007 at 1:19 pmThanks, Wayne.
September 15th, 2007 at 1:25 pmI’ve visited there – intend to spend more time at the zoo.
Just looks like a guy that’s not losing any sleep over a war he helped start. Regardless of whether you’re for it or against, it’s pretty sad that a guy helped start the war and has no concern about the guys that he sent to fight it for him.
September 15th, 2007 at 1:27 pm…he could at least
pay “attention to specifics about what’s going on day to day in Iraq.†…
…
Comment by katy — September 15, 2007 @ 12:41 pm
He didn’t say he wasn’t
September 15th, 2007 at 1:27 pmTroll
September 15th, 2007 at 1:31 pmYour your comments are as stupid and irrelevant as Bush’s
He didn’t follow what was going on in Iraq when he was in office. Why should he start now? He’s never cared about what went there. It was always all about him and the neocon vision, and has been ever since he worked for Nixon.
Diana
September 15th, 2007 at 1:32 pmHope Rummy gets his ‘papers’ in order before the hangin’.
September 15th, 2007 at 1:34 pmHe didn’t even “stay current” when he was in office. Rumsfleld bolted (like Perle, Wolfowitz, Bremer, Powell, etc.) when he saw the mess he made in Iraq would not turn out as dreamed. Too bad America was looking for vision and leadership in a time of crisis and we get washed-up Nixon and Reagan-era losers and their old, tired Nixon and Reagan-era trickle-down ideas.
September 15th, 2007 at 1:36 pmThank’s Wayne, can’t get there from here..This old puter hardly make’s it to TP any more and won’t go to the Zoo at all….New puter on the way….Should be shiped out next week some time..Once I get up and running I’ll viset every one…Ya all have a nice day…Maybe I will make it back here tomorrow….Blessings
September 15th, 2007 at 1:37 pmComment by Vail43 — September 15, 2007 @ 1:31 pm
How so Vial? Rummy said “…I have not even attempted stay as current as one would if you were in the government, constantly seeing all the intelligence and information.â€
He did not say that he was not paying any attention.
September 15th, 2007 at 1:38 pmYou, too, Tobey Tall. When you’re through looking through TP, drop on by the Zoo. It’s an international community of posters.
Comment by Wayne A. Schneider
Sure it is; if you enjoy the same 5 posters exchanging small talk over and over. TP. should banish you complainers.
Mr. Schmucker, if it’s so great, why are you here trying to pirate TPers. If it’s so great- STAY THERE !!
September 15th, 2007 at 1:41 pmTroll
September 15th, 2007 at 1:45 pmYour defense of Rummy’s 3 trillion lie and serial malfeasance is shameless and lacks integrity. Your malodorous posts have a Tony Snow mendacious flavor.
Busy ‘Arranging My Papers’
Translation, Busy cashing in all my ‘Daddy War Bucks’ deferred compensation.
September 15th, 2007 at 1:50 pmI suppose Rumsfeld thinks we are still in the “last throes” of the insurgency.
September 15th, 2007 at 1:52 pmVial
September 15th, 2007 at 1:53 pmNowhere did I defend “Rummy’s 3 trillion lie and serial malfeasance”. You either can not read or YOU lack integrity and are projecting.
Troll
September 15th, 2007 at 1:57 pmYou need to take a logic course and/or investigate the implications of your Rummy-friendly statemetns are.
Wow! Rumsfeld reveals himself to be the caring, concerned human being we’ve always known him to be.
Can’t be bothered with “all of that” over there now that I’m no longer Secretary of Defense. You know, all that death and maiming of American troops.
What a dickwipe.
September 15th, 2007 at 2:08 pmVial
September 15th, 2007 at 2:08 pmYou know nothing of “logic”. I pointed out that Faiz was being intellectually dishonest, it doesn’t follow that I am therefore as you say “Rummy-friendly”. Get a clue toady.
” set up foundation to train the next generation of Donalds”…Are you kidding me? The day after it opens, you’d better burn that abomination to the ground and plow salt into the ashes so that nothing grows there…ever.
September 15th, 2007 at 2:14 pmAt least Rumsfeld has not changed his approach. The results of his ignorance, when he was the Secretary of Defense, show that he could not have been keeping up on Iraq then, as well as now. There is one thing worse than an arrogant prick like Donald Rumsfeld, and that is a willfully ignorant, arrogant prick, like Donald Rumsfeld!.
September 15th, 2007 at 2:17 pmI hope he untentionally provides clues to his war crime documents. Maybe he can tell us what’s in Dick Cheney man-size safe. Disclose an email or 5 million?
September 15th, 2007 at 2:17 pmTroll
September 15th, 2007 at 2:18 pmThou doth protesteth too much. If you Rumster Toads had any courage you would admit that your Iraq invasion has been a tragic mistake. If you Rumster Toads had even the most miniscule trace of integrity you would be at least as upset and disturbed over your stupid neocon spillage and wastage of American blood as you were in your most recent post.
What are waiting to bring this criminal to justice? Him and his buddies are responsible for more death, both American and Iraki lives, than anybody else alive today… Only by having an American tribunal holding him accountable for all the blood he shed can this country regain the stature it once had.
September 15th, 2007 at 2:19 pmWhy should he worry his “pretty little mind” over the men and women he sent off to die. He has a book to write for god’s sake.
How people continue to believe that these Republicans actually care about America and Americans in general astounds me.
September 15th, 2007 at 2:20 pmHuman Rights Watch reports that Saddam killed 100,000 Kurdish Iraqis; another 500,000 are estimated to have died in Saddam’s needless war with Iran i.e., non-civilian deaths attributable to needless war. Bush’s invasion of Iraq has caused, by conservative estimates, 100,000 civilian deaths.
So Bush, who claimed the invasion was necessary to prevent Saddam from killing his own citizens, has now killed at least as many civilians as Saddam did.
hang on…what about the khmer rouge? – who the cia and the usa govt. backed until 1994….aren’t they terrorists?….and what about nixon and kissinger starting the whole mess in cambodia…but no,you americans don’t hear about these things…..give you guys a tip – read a book called “dining with terrorists” by phil rees….then you people may guage a certain understanding of why the rest of the world HATES YOU so much
September 15th, 2007 at 2:22 pmDon Rumsfeld is one of those smart guys who thinks he’s a lot smarter than he is. Real MENSA type. He was the youngest SecDef in history (under the Ford interim government) and I think that probably welded the last seal on the iron lung of his mind.
September 15th, 2007 at 2:23 pmNobody could tell him anything: his military insights (smaller units, more flexible, less interservice rivalry) had also been arrived at by every member of the Military Book Club, but to him they were (like everything else) proofs of his genius.
The neocons had this great idea (stolen, as half of our current history seems to be, from a Tom Clancy novel) of stabilizing the middle east by sending our troops in an forcing them to behave. (of course Clancy, less of an idiot, had the occupation of the Holy Land end in a kinda nuclear explosion at the Super Bowl.) but it sounded great to them. No more Soviet Union, right? So nobody’s there to stop us from trying exactly what they did.
But the real weakness was that Cheney, head neocon, had been rummy’s subordinate in the Ford days and regarded him as his mentor and–you guessed it–a genius.
So an idea that might actually have worked, given massive troop presence and some expertise in nation-rebuilding and military occupation (like the British had, for example), instead got given to The Genius.
And those people who told him he was wrong were thrown out, and the weasels who told him exactly what he wanted to hear were given positions of power that they, in turn, abused.
Rummy will go to his grave thinking he’s smarter than everyone else. Even in a cell in the Hague, he’ll be thinking somethimg like ‘great men of course will have enemies.”
I’ve known, unfortunately, too many people like that. Rummy has wrapped himself in his intellectual ego and gone on being stupid.
And thousands upin thousands of innocent people have died for that.
I think we have two things to thank Rummy for: by ignoring all expertise and following his own star, he 1) made the failure in Iraq far more rapid and obvious; and 2) made the military high command hate him with a white-hot passion, which has driven a wedge between the GOP and the military that will have echoes for the rest of the century.
Troll
September 15th, 2007 at 2:24 pmVail43 is very correct in his assessment of your mindset. Why don’t you head back to your nest at RNC and work on Monday’s talking points?
oh and by the way,the khmer roughe slaughtered 2million people…..or thereabouts
September 15th, 2007 at 2:25 pmHasn’t anyone told Rumie that while he’s on sabbatical at The Hague he’ll have plenty of quality time to work on his memoirs, especially that final chapter entitled “My Last Fifteen Minutes”?
September 15th, 2007 at 2:28 pmis that justice?….or a fight for freedom…..america – CUNTS
September 15th, 2007 at 2:28 pm“Rusmfeld re-emphasized the point, concluding his answer by stating: “So I’ve been busy doing those kinds of things and I have not even attempted stay as current as one would if you were in the government, constantly seeing all the intelligence and information.”
“seeing all the intelligence and information”. Exactly how would he be able to do that as a private citizen? I think there is a clue in that sentence.
September 15th, 2007 at 2:30 pmThere is no catastrophe in Iraq. O Big foot in mouth
OMG, you don’t consider it a catastrophe that somewhere close to a million Iraqi’s are dead. You don’t consider it a catastrophe that over 2 million Iraqi’s have fled their country. You don’t consider it a catastrophe that they don’t have clean drinking water, electricity or enough food to eat? And that’s just Iraq.
You don’t consider it a catastrophe that we have lost close to 4,000 (more like 10,000 if Bush counted all those who have died because of Iraq) soldiers and spent close to a trillion dollars we have borrowed in China all in an attempt to steal Iraq’s oil.
Boy, if you don’t consider any of those things a catastrophe, I shudder to think what you would consider to be a catastrophe.
September 15th, 2007 at 2:34 pmBush will say the same in Dec 08
September 15th, 2007 at 2:34 pmHe didn’t say he wasn’t [paying attention, i assume]
Comment by Troll — September 15, 2007 @ 1:27 pm
it’s true, troll … he didn’t come right out and say “NO”,
when asked whether he currently “pays attention to specifics
about what’s going on day to day in Iraq.â€
but he did say as much with his rambling, circling, bloviating,
rumsfeldian non-answer though…
and the families of the dead, dying and wounded need
September 15th, 2007 at 2:42 pmto know about his lack of attention and concern…
…
Yea right. Disingenuous to the end. I hope the tepid interest by publishers wanes to no interest for his fictional account of the war.
September 15th, 2007 at 2:43 pmTobey Tall
September 15th, 2007 at 2:45 pmI suspect that Bush’s psychopatholigies will have substantilly deepened by Dec 08. He seems to get more upset and disturbed over Americans who disagree and criticize him than he does over anything that OBL or any of the insurgents do or say. The prime example is that shortly after the message sent by the electorate in Nov 06 Bush stated that the American People wanted change and that he was going to give it to us; and he did to wit: his stupid surge thing. The Bush/Cheney vindictive streak will tragically manifest itself once again by Dec 08 most likely in some form of screwup in and around the Straits of Hormuz. Thus Bush/Cheney will bless and bestow Americans with $10 per gallon gasoline. That will teach us the lesson of why we should have been loyal bushie toads and worshiped him and his policies. Willl Bush & Cheney ever have to worry about availability and cost of gas? I think not!
Al-Sadr loyalists quit Shia bloc
Withdrawal from ruling alliance could put Nuri al-Maliki’s government in jeopardy.
http://english.aljazeera.net/English
Oh well the next leader of Iraq needs to tell the US to leave
September 15th, 2007 at 2:46 pm“He didn’t say he wasn’t [paying attention, i assume]”
Comment by Troll
He also said “we know where the weapons are; they’re east, west, north, and south of Baghdad.”
Did you believe him then?
Why do you continue give him the benefit of the doubt, now?
ANYTHING Rumsfeld says must be considered untruthful. Anyone who still believes Rummy is honest, is a person so disconnected from reality, I fear for their personal safety. You should seek professional help, before you become a danger to yourself, and to those around you.
September 15th, 2007 at 2:52 pm“I hope the tepid interest by publishers wanes to no interest for his fictional account of the war.”
Rummy will be the newest ass in the wingnut welfare program. And his book will be a loss leader as soon as it’s released.
September 15th, 2007 at 2:54 pmbarfly
September 15th, 2007 at 2:56 pmI enjoyed your post. Well Put!!
Re the march in Washington. The Washington Post has it on its’ web page. CNN has headlined another missing white girl. That’s ever so much more important than tens of thousands of people marching on Washington to protest Iraq. I will be so glad when the MSM has died the death it so richly deserves and the Internet becomes our primary news source.
September 15th, 2007 at 3:00 pmRumsfeld is much too busy rearranging the deck chairs on the SS Titanic to worry about running into any icebergs in this Desert Quagmire. Icebergs in the Iraqi deserts? Naahhh, whod a thunk it?
So Rummy will soon be joining the Hoover Institution for Imperialism and corporate Counterinsurgency out at dear Old Stanford University, in Palo Alto, California. Charmed, I’m sure.
September 15th, 2007 at 3:04 pmANYTHING Rumsfeld says must be considered untruthful.
Comment by barfly — September 15, 2007 @ 2:52 pm
So maybe he really is paying attention and you fools are worked up over nothing.
Barfly I never said I considered rummy “honest” or anything else. Please work on your reading comprehension skills.
September 15th, 2007 at 3:07 pmComment by ANTITROLL — September 15, 2007 @ 2:24 pm
Greaaat
September 15th, 2007 at 3:11 pmI prove one of you is an idiot and another comes along and screams “me too, me too.”
Rumsfeld can shove his papers up his ass. Who does he think he is, anyway? Government pension (generous, I’m quite sure) and unlimited health care. Who cares about his “papers”?
September 15th, 2007 at 3:12 pmRump’sFilled arranging his papers on the men’s restroom floor?
September 15th, 2007 at 3:19 pmThanks Vali43.
September 15th, 2007 at 3:21 pmComment by katy — September 15, 2007 @ 2:42 pm
Katy
Thank you for your honesty in admitting your error. Of course you may extrapolate what you will from his “rambling, circling, bloviating, rumsfeldian non-answer…” but that remains pure conjecture which may or may not be accurate.
In the end what Rummy knows or does not know now is of no value since he no longer has any official power.
September 15th, 2007 at 3:21 pmBarfly I never said I considered rummy “honest†or anything else. Please work on your reading comprehension skills.
Comment by Troll
“He didn’t say he wasn’t [paying attention, i assume]â€
Comment by Troll
Rusmfeld re-emphasized the point, concluding his answer by stating: “So I’ve been busy doing those kinds of things and I have not even attempted stay as current as one would if you were in the government, constantly seeing all the intelligence and information.â€
I enjoyed the “reading comprehension” jibe, coming from you.
Perhaps we can carpool to class?
September 15th, 2007 at 3:25 pmSure, he’s a villainous megalomaniac, but ya gotta give these devils their due: Rummy, Cheney and even Dubya have been nothing if not consistent over the past six years–arrogant, obnoxious, truculent, condescending and wrong, but unfailingly consistent. If these guys weren’t such knuckleheads, they’d've been rather successful. Alas…
September 15th, 2007 at 3:25 pmI prove one of you is an idiot and another comes along and screams “me too, me too.â€
Comment by Troll — September 15, 2007 @ 3:11 pm
you’ve proven only your blind obeisance to treason and incompetence. nothing else, except your irrelevance.
September 15th, 2007 at 3:29 pm“In the end what Rummy knows or does not know now is of no value since he no longer has any official power.”
Comment by Troll
There is value in what he knows and remembers – for war-crimes (using white phosphorus against enemy soldiers) prosecutors at the Hague.
September 15th, 2007 at 3:31 pmComment by barfly — September 15, 2007 @ 3:25 pm
And where did I say he was “honest or anything else”? I quoted a report that said what he said, if anything I am assuming the credibility of the reporter.
You’d better get to that class quick.
September 15th, 2007 at 3:33 pmsmokey joe
September 15th, 2007 at 3:35 pmGreat comment on that idiot sychophant Troll
you’ve proven only your blind obeisance to treason and incompetence. nothing else, except your irrelevance.
Comment by smokey joe — September 15, 2007 @ 3:29 pm
Maybe to an illiterate toady like you.
September 15th, 2007 at 3:37 pm“He didn’t say he wasn’t [paying attention, i assume]â€
Comment by Troll
“I quoted a report that said what he said, if anything I am assuming the credibility of the reporter.”
“that said what he said” — you mean “quoted?”
As in quoted verbatim? On Fox News? Would they have any reason to misquote their favorite former administration talking head? Those were his words, and he said I have not even attempted stay as current as one would if you were in the government, constantly seeing all the intelligence and information.â€
I’ll drive, but you’ll have to give me gas money.
September 15th, 2007 at 3:44 pmTroll
September 15th, 2007 at 3:47 pmYour comments are without a doubt the most stupid of any blogger that I have read in the last 84 hours. Why don’t you take the next flight home to Trollsylvania where there is a good chance that you might fit in.
you’ve proven only your blind obeisance to treason and incompetence. nothing else, except your irrelevance.
Comment by smokey joe — September 15, 2007 @ 3:29 pm
Maybe to an illiterate toady like you.
Comment by Troll
An illiterate wouldn’t know how to spell “obeisance” and “incompetance.”
September 15th, 2007 at 3:48 pmComment by TrollTracker — September 15, 2007 @ 3:35 pm
Wow how many times do you morons have to get slapped down before you learn to stay down.
I think Bush is certainly one of the worse presidents ever to serve our country and his cabinet picks including Rummy have been abhorent yet you label me a sychophant (sic). (I assume you meant a Rummy sycophant.) You dont know jack.
September 15th, 2007 at 3:49 pmComment by barfly — September 15, 2007 @ 3:48 pm
Monkeys can copy and paste.
September 15th, 2007 at 3:50 pmTrollTracker
September 15th, 2007 at 3:50 pmMega Dittos on your comment regarding the Troll thing.
Troll
September 15th, 2007 at 3:51 pmon your last post WOW did I see a glimmer of hope for you?
Comment by TrollTracker — September 15, 2007 @ 3:47 pm
You dont read so well so chances are mine are the only comments you have read in the last 84 hours.
September 15th, 2007 at 3:52 pm“I think Bush is certainly one of the worse presidents ever to serve our country and his cabinet picks including Rummy have been abhorent yet you label me a sychophant (sic). ”
Well, now you say that. We were trying to tell you guys these clowns couldn’t shoot straight before the war. But you bedwetters were too fidgety to let the UN inspectors do their work. Now, you’re one of the newly-minted “libertarians” who suddenly don’t like foreign entanglements.
Right
September 15th, 2007 at 3:54 pmTroll
September 15th, 2007 at 3:55 pmWould you like to make a correction to COMMENT 96?
Replace “serve” with “disserve” ?
Monkeys can copy and paste.
Comment by Troll
Only if they can spell — and illiterates can’t even spell well enough to use a keyboard. Are you an example of conservative thinking? The clanging of intellectual contradiction must make sleeping difficult.
September 15th, 2007 at 3:57 pmTroll
September 15th, 2007 at 3:57 pmPlease list anything that you do respect about Rumsfeld.
I’m surprised that Rumsfeld doesn’t just go to the “go-to” publisher for typical right-wing, neocon trash–Regnery Publishing.
September 15th, 2007 at 4:01 pmThen, again, they might not offer Rummy as much money as he thinks his “memoirs” are worth. (At least, not until he manages to “remember” something relatively fresh that could impugn Hillary. And, yes, the quote marks are intended. Regnery doesn’t require its non-fiction works to be completely fiction-free, especially when a Clinton can be smeared.)
Ah, c’mon trollie, slap us down some more!!
This is more fun than happy hour!!
September 15th, 2007 at 4:01 pmPeople might buy arrogance followed by success. Arrogance followed by incompetent, delusional failure ??? I don’t think so.
September 15th, 2007 at 4:05 pmTroll
September 15th, 2007 at 4:05 pmYou really need to be deprogammed of your disgusting alliegence to the BUSH-CHENEY-RUNSFIELD 3 $trillion$ lie and treason . The first step would be for you to cease mortgaging your mind into the FOX propaganda mill.
barfly
September 15th, 2007 at 4:11 pmAnother great post on the Troll thing.
The Troll thing must be very lonely out there pathetically scurring by itself to rummage through the Rumster’s droppings.
Comment by katy — September 15, 2007 @ 2:42 pm
Katy Thank you for your honesty in admitting your error.
Troll @ 3:21 pm –
i no more admitted any error than you have…
‘course, i did not make an error with my comment,
other than to give a trooll any kind of an inch or a molehill…
lesson learned…
September 15th, 2007 at 4:11 pm.
Comment by TrollTracker — September 15, 2007 @ 4:05 pm
More proof of your toady status. You assume anyone who does not agree with you agrees with them. You seem to see all in black and white like some religious fanatic.
September 15th, 2007 at 4:13 pmFact is, he has been more successful in his life than 100% of the posters on kook liberal blogs…so it just sounds like “Rumsfeld Envy†to me.
Comment by O. Bigfoot — September 15, 2007
I dont know how you are calculating success: by money earned or by titles attained. Surely he doesn’t get daily briefs on Iraq anylonger, and I agree its hard to know what the heck is going on in Iraq. I am not envious of Rumsfeld or Brittney Spears for that matter.
However, I do think the illogical jump from catching Osama to regime change in Iraq was an error that exacerbated the problem of terrorism. Maybe he did really believe that Iraq would a quick war, thats a bit hard to swallow though because many others, including Cheney, knew that it would become unmanageable.
September 15th, 2007 at 4:13 pmComment by ANTITROLL — September 15, 2007 @ 3:57 pm
We may not agree with him nor think he is compotent yet he has made himself a target in service to our nation for good or ill. We cannot judge his motives because we dont really know. SO giving him the benefit of the doubt I suppose I can respect that he tried.
September 15th, 2007 at 4:18 pmHis papers? In order? Hell his best papers went down the toilet each day!!!
“next generation of Donald Rumsfelds”
You hear that trolls? There’s is going to be a Troll University at the Bridge
Start signin’ up moron trolls!!!!
September 15th, 2007 at 4:18 pmBack to Rumsfeld. He’ll become like Henry Kissinger: unable to leave the US because all the countries that have extradition treaties will demand his arrest, should he step foot in another jurisdiction. John Bolton better get his stuff out of the AEI lunchroom refrigerator, cause Rummy’s sh*t sandwiches take up considerable shelfspace, and they make everything else smell like crap.
September 15th, 2007 at 4:21 pm“We may not agree with him nor think he is compotent”
No so. I think he would make very potent compost.
September 15th, 2007 at 4:22 pmTroll
September 15th, 2007 at 4:24 pmYour pathetic autodemonization of anyone who dares not to adopt your Rummy fetish reeks of the bankrupt faschism of Bush-Cheney-Rove-Hitler-Staline-Mussolini etc. When will you learn? Probably never since you don’t have even an ameobic clue.
Comment by Troll — September 15, 2007
Ya know…I, for one, am against labels. Are you a sychophant? Dunno n’ Dunnuh care.
Anyway, I disagree with these foundations set up by people, and not just Rumsfeld as they tend to undermine Democracy. They call themselves bi-partisan and rarely are.
September 15th, 2007 at 4:24 pm“…next generation of Donald Rumsfelds†-Don Rumsfeld.
And this is what I am talking about. We will have a generation of Rumsfelds, a generation o Albrights, a generation of Georges, a generation of Mcnamaras. a generation o Kissingers, a generation of X_________’s
It becomes a battle of foundations. And, Ya Know, I just dont cotton up to all this public policy being discussed behind closed doors.
September 15th, 2007 at 4:29 pmComment by barfly — September 15, 2007 @ 3:54 pm
I was always a libertarian more or less. The Republicans used to represent us. Presently as a whole they do not. That is likely to reverse itself again now that the neocons have mangled things up so badly.
While I supported regime change in Iraq Bush and Rummy blew it. Iraq should have been partitioned at the outset and I still believe it will be in the end. If we believe in democracy then that is the only course of action for that is what the people of Iraq seem to want.
September 15th, 2007 at 4:29 pmThats “competent” thanks.
September 15th, 2007 at 4:30 pmComment by TrollTracker — September 15, 2007 @ 4:24 pm
My Rummy fetish? Hello? Go back and read my posts real slow this time you might understand them better.
September 15th, 2007 at 4:33 pm“If we believe in democracy then that is the only course of action for that is what the people of Iraq seem to want.”
What they want is peace. But the “peace” of control – over the oil, the military, and the economic engines (such as they are) of the nation. And that’s what their neighbors ostensibly claim to also want, and for the same reasons. Iraq represents a huge pinata, and the problem is there are thirty groups, large and small, that all are swinging mightily to connect with the Mother of All Paydays. In the process they keep whacking each other while Historic Precedent yanks the prize out of range. After getting whacked for 4 years, one must ask: what is the point? Democracy in Iraq is a sham, there are no weapons of mass destruction, and oil revenues will never pay us back for what we have lost.
September 15th, 2007 at 4:41 pmit’s true, troll … he didn’t come right out and say “NOâ€,
Comment by katy — September 15, 2007 @ 2:42 pm
You admit I was correct in that posting therefore you were in error, but whatever. I am the one who has learned, toadies don’t change their warts it seems.
September 15th, 2007 at 4:41 pmBTW and OT,
Crooks and Liars dot com is a bullsh!t site for liberals! The monitors there are morons! They equate critisism of Israel with “anti-semitism!” Complete morons!!
They also have NO SENSE OF HUMOR~~~sour pusses everyone of them!!!
JOHN AMATO IS A WUSS!!!
September 15th, 2007 at 4:49 pmIs Rummy still on the payroll? IIRC, he still had an office and staff in the Pentagon after he “resigned.” Does anyone know if he’s still being subsidized like this?
September 15th, 2007 at 4:51 pmComment by barfly — September 15, 2007 @ 4:41 pm
The question then becomes if we withdraw will it get better or worse? I think worse. However the humanitarian crisis created by our departure might force action on the part of the global community which may be more aceptable and benificial to the people of Iraq. But that is a big gamble.
Do we just say good by and good luck to the majority who are not part of the problem but are victims? I dont think that would be a moral thing to do.
September 15th, 2007 at 4:53 pmSo, just to be clear: A guy who is slated to be one of TEH experts in these sorts of matters, is too busy doing administrivia and minutia to even bother to pay attention to the ramifications of his own “expertise.” mmmmm.. imagine that?
Or better, try to calculate his actions between January 20, 2001 and say, oh i don’t know, September 16, 2001. Given his current admitted manner of processing his life: setting up the Office of the Secretary of Defense, hiring an entire command and control structure, arranging new policies and procedures, etc., it is no wonder he didn’t have time to bother to pay any attention whatsoever to the reports the CIA and FBI were generating about various terrorist cells operating in the US, and abroad. Hell, Condi admitted that neither she nor Rummy felt the US Cole was something new and concerning (”that happened under Clinton’s watch and was in the historical past”).
The picture becomes more clear. Poor Stanford, stuck with these two flakes, neither of whom has even the slightest cartilage of intellectual honesty, nor a single braincell between them of academic rigor. The Hoover Institution must be really falling to pieces. I suppose Chevron can name a new ship after Rummy, but with the history oil tankers have, a shipped named Rummy would be fairly untrustworthy.
September 15th, 2007 at 4:55 pmI predict Rummy’s book’s thesis will be how his “leaner, more agile” plan for the military was completely bungled by his underlings. And how little he really believed in the WMD rationale, but being a “good soldier” meant keeping his mouth shut. And it will be filled to the brim with his smarmy “did we know… going in? My goodness, how could we have known…?”
September 15th, 2007 at 4:55 pmBut that is a big gamble.
Do we just say good by and good luck to the majority who are not part of the problem but are victims? I dont think that would be a moral thing to do.
Comment by Troll — September 15, 2007 @ 4:53 pm
It’s a “gamble” I’m willing to take because we (USA) no longer own the timeline and others WILL step up.
The “moral thing” is NO LONGER AN OPTION!! Morality ended with GW Botch and his illegal torture, criminal acts and immoral, Jesusmongering that he specialized in!!!
September 15th, 2007 at 5:01 pm“Do we just say good by and good luck to the majority who are not part of the problem but are victims? I dont think that would be a moral thing to do.”
Comment by Troll
This presupposes that civil war hasn’t already happened, anyway. We are mediating a civil war, but it’s at a lower level than it would be if we weren’t there. This won’t last; the tensions in the North will soon force an accomodation with the Kurds that will be unacceptable to Turkey. A soft partition (like our state system) won’t work; the civic concept of “full faith and credit” won’t be workable between bitter, temporarily separated religious and tribal enemies. That’s the “Historic Precedent” I alluded to in a previous post.
September 15th, 2007 at 5:05 pmAnd it will be filled to the brim with his smarmy “did we know… going in? My goodness, how could we have known…?â€
Comment by barfly — September 15, 2007 @ 4:55 pm
It’s gonna read like a whole Q&A session with himself. He wanted to call it “Interview with the Vampire”, but that was already taken.
September 15th, 2007 at 5:10 pmFooty, what a featherhead you are. There are so many reports of Bush’s behavioral (sp) freefall that it would take a fool to enable him any further. Worst leader in our history, and one of the most pathetic frat rats ever. Cheerleader Chickenhawk. Why then, do you hate this wonderful country so much? Your words give it away. There right here in print. Maybe you just don’t know any better, or you are too young to have a feel for all this. In all of my sixty years, I never have suffered so many foolish people.
September 15th, 2007 at 5:19 pm“He wanted to call it “Interview with the Vampireâ€, but that was already taken.”
Comment by Wayne A. Schneider
The publisher also removed a chapter that dealt with the decision to send badly-armored troops into battle, entitled “If I Did It”;)
September 15th, 2007 at 5:21 pmI’m sure it will be a bestseller in “Old Europe” too.
September 15th, 2007 at 5:24 pmIn all of my sixty years, I never have suffered so many foolish people.
Comment by circusfifthfloor — September 15, 2007 @ 5:19 pm
That is right on point and it started with Ronald (Ray-Gun) Reagan!!! He embraced stupidy and hatred and paved the way for GHW(orthless) Botch and GW(orthless) Botch. This reich-wing stupidity must come to an end!!!
September 15th, 2007 at 5:26 pmComment by barfly — September 15, 2007 @ 5:21 pm
LOL :D That was good!
He had a song that they also had to edit out.
“50 Ways To Leave Your Lover”
Just ship to Iraq, Jack
Don’t taken any plan, Stan
Just go and destroy, Roy
And listen to me
Blown up by a bus, Gus
It don’t seem to disgust us
Just follow Maliki
And set them all free
(copyright 2007)
September 15th, 2007 at 5:28 pmGood one, Wayne! What a refrain!
September 15th, 2007 at 5:33 pmHe then added that he doesn’t have time to follow what’s going on in Iraq because he’s too busy…
Checking which countries around the world DON’T have extradition treaties w/ the US?
Or is he admitting he can’t stand to look the horrific bloody nightmare he helped create over there w/ his incompetency and delusions of grandeur.
September 15th, 2007 at 5:35 pmComment by barfly — September 15, 2007 @ 5:33 pm
Thanks. I made it up after I read your funny comments.
September 15th, 2007 at 5:36 pmOK – the architect of the war doesn’t even have enough human decency to care to follow what it currently happening from his creation.
At least Dr. Frankenstein cared !
September 15th, 2007 at 5:42 pmThat’s Franken-STEEN!
September 15th, 2007 at 6:11 pmEXACTLY why he should be prosecuted…
…and “Saddamized”…
…serial murderers like Rummy, Bush and Cheney have no consciences…
…why should they have a right to “Life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness?”
September 15th, 2007 at 6:18 pmRummy has never had a clue, much like the rest of this administration.
September 15th, 2007 at 6:28 pmwhy should he pay attention now, he never did while he was sec def.
September 15th, 2007 at 6:44 pmRumsfeld is a psychopath and war criminal.
September 15th, 2007 at 10:03 pmThis is so like these whackos of the Bush dis-administration; out of sight out of mind! We’ll let those other people – the soldiers and the thousands of Iraqis killed over the past several years – worry about out little war games.
September 15th, 2007 at 10:38 pmRedbeard
He had the same policy when he was SecDef
September 15th, 2007 at 10:42 pmHowever, it is his view on the motive for the 2003 Iraq invasion that is likely to provoke the most controversy. “I am saddened that it is politically inconvenient to acknowledge what everyone knows: the Iraq war is largely about oil,†he says.Greenspan, 81, is understood to believe that Saddam Hussein posed a threat to the security of oil supplies in the Middle East. http://timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/article2461214.ece
September 15th, 2007 at 11:32 pmO. Bigfoot, him have o little brain.
Rumsfeld, him too focused on big wampum to bother with reality.
September 15th, 2007 at 11:46 pmThe guy doesn’t seem to care about neither the troops nor the iraqi people. He cares about making more money selling his ideology which caused the death of hundreds of thousands of people. I’d not read any of the shit this criminal would write because history cannot be written by a loser.
September 16th, 2007 at 12:35 amHe never cared about the disaster he created when he was DOD sec. Why care now?
Why is it so forbidden to call it like it is? It is a fascist attempt to take over the world. The mass murder of hundreds of thousands of human beings means nothing to this administration and it’s Republican co-conspirators in the congress.
Why is it so forbidden to call this administration the sequel to nazism and Hitler? Does it have to be a holocast of Jews before it equals Hitler’s war crimes and crimes against humanity? Is it because Israel and the USA are now together in these atrocities that makes it ‘okay’?
It is telling that bush’s grandfather did business with the nazis before, after and during the Hitler regime.
While it is horrible that even one American soldier dies for the corporate facists, why aren’t Americans even more appauled that we are the tools to kill hundreds of thousands of innocent people all over the world in the name of ‘American interests’?
September 16th, 2007 at 12:48 amI don’t know why only the fools of neocon supporters who find this guy “attractive and sexy” and take the shit he says seriously! No one in this world supports him except Trolls and some Israelis for some obvious reasons. Do you remember that back on 2003 his German relatives declared that they “are ashamed that he is one of the family” and that they are “saddened by his war mongering”. Margarete Rumsfeld, her 85-year-old mother, was equally dismissive: “We don’t have much to do with him anymore. Nowadays he’s just the American defence secretary to us, but for God’s sake, he’d better not start a war,” she added!!!!
September 16th, 2007 at 1:02 am
Comment by Marquise
September 16th, 2007 at 1:08 amRumsfeld is not attempting to stay current on what is going on in Iraq as a private citizen since he knows it can not be done. More than anyone he knows the news fed to the American people is nothing more than propaganda.
September 16th, 2007 at 3:39 amRumsfeld is simply doing what he does best.
He is LYING.
September 16th, 2007 at 3:50 amWho is surprised? Rummy doesn’t give a rat’s ass because it isn’t his child being blown to bits. Some other poor dumb bastard’s child is dying for his Halliburton stock suge. Suckers! Who knew Rumsfeld was an arrogant prick? I for one am shocked!
September 16th, 2007 at 7:43 amStanford, a great institution of liberal learning, will be lucky to have both Condi and Rumsfield on payroll???
September 16th, 2007 at 10:53 amHmmmm…. there’s a difference there to an honest person.
TP is a joke.
September 16th, 2007 at 11:03 amContinuance of one’s path even after leaving a job is a true measure of competency, interest and passion–Rumsfeld has finally revealed his.
mike from
September 16th, 2007 at 11:30 amhttp://www.iwannamakemoneyonline.com
Wow he ignores his mess…. interesting… I guess he is the only one in this country…
September 16th, 2007 at 12:34 pm“Hmmmm…. there’s a difference there to an honest person.”
Comment by Toliver
No there isn’t. You’re splitting non-existent hairs. A closer reading shows he is referring to Iraq.
You’re the one who’s a joke.
September 16th, 2007 at 12:35 pmIt is amazing that Rumsfield is still newsworthy! have we not had enough of him?
September 16th, 2007 at 12:44 pmhey guys have you seen the Rumsfeld look-alike character in the Transformers movie?
September 16th, 2007 at 1:58 pmRumsfeld is too busy to know what’s going on in Iraq? The average American keeps up with it daily and the man who is most responsible for this mess is too busy. Even outside of the office this guy is full of cattle feces.
September 16th, 2007 at 2:23 pmHe’s not in government anymore, therefore all he can do is read the paper like the rest of us.
Gloids you are.
September 16th, 2007 at 2:44 pm“There is no catastrophe in Iraq.”
HEH.
September 16th, 2007 at 3:55 pmHe’s busy buying more stock in his drug company, that got from the repub congress last year, the exclusive, the no bid, no possible liability for the bird flu epidemic that is the next big scare. Notice that they are holding of the vaccinations until the company has loits of vaccine. You hear nothing about it these days.
Maybe Iraq is making enough for them for a while.
September 16th, 2007 at 6:24 pm# 4., I agree with you. Obviously, he doesn’t need the money, this
September 16th, 2007 at 9:29 pmwar criminal, (besides some Iraqi aritfacts he obtained when
people were looting === remember his “these things happen” reply?)==
HarperCollins (owned by Murdoch pal), will publish his ghost-written
garbage and give him a nice 7 figure advance.
I am so sick of these beings now jumping ship and pretending,
“hey, what ’s the problem, our disaster is so becoming yesterday’s news?”, while how many have suffered and died and are doing so now., it just makes you sick…. you know where you can go,
war criminal, ….as far as I am concerned and you can’t go there soon enough. After all, (when you die) you go to the place God sends you, not necessarily the place you want (to paraphrase your infamous “you go with the Army you have not the Army you want”…
Rumsfeld is a war criminal, a war criminal, a torturer, a liar, and
September 16th, 2007 at 9:35 pmwhen it is his turn to leave this earthly plane, I hope he finds out that,
hey: you don’t get sent to where you would like to go, YOU DEAL with
where you are sent, and it ain’t upstairs. See how you like that commment Rummy = sound familiar to your reply to that soldier re: adequate
defense supplies for troops? or how about this, == “stuff happens”…I won’t wish you any luck down there…you deserve everything you’ll get.
Rummsfeild is a war criminal, that should be thrown behind bars and never heard from again, or at the very least hung for crimes against humanity. as for his lack of intrest in the war he helped start, what an arrogant mother fuccer.
i say put them all in front of a firing squad and watch their blood run free. that goes to rumsfeild, bush, general peehead and the rest of those evil nazi bastards that are using the constitution as a napkin as they drink the blood of little children.
September 16th, 2007 at 10:58 pm“He’s not in government anymore, therefore all he can do is read the paper like the rest of us.
Gloids you are.”
Comment by Toliver
And be given intel by his insider buddies. You’re a rube.
September 16th, 2007 at 11:18 pmThat’s really embarrassing. How can he be an “ideology and terror expert” at a think tank if he isn’t even staying up to date on the news? I’m sure he still follows the war, he just doesn’t want to comment on it because it’s going so badly–just like when he was in office. It’s easier to pretend he doesn’t know so he can talk about his think tank and his book.
September 17th, 2007 at 12:28 pmThere must be some way to make this war IMPORTANT again….for one of the biggest war criminals of this or any other time in history!!!
September 17th, 2007 at 1:57 pmIt’s good to see Rumsfeld again. An enormously talented and competent man who had the impossible task of being the head of the DOD without a worthwhile intelligence agency to back him up.
It would also be helpful to have his side of the story on how the Iraq war became such a difficult struggle. The media can’t even cover OJ or Paris Hilton without getting half the story wrong. I can’t imagine they were even close on Iraq.
I hope people realize that newspapers are mostly pandering junk written by hacks. This piece of knowledge will help you not to go crazy when the world does not jibe with what you are reading.
There are so many seemingly crazed responses on here. I often wonder why you people hate your lives so much. I hope many will move on and find your place in the world and leave this childish ranting and paranoia behind you.
September 17th, 2007 at 11:21 pm