I read a bunch of papers. And in the last few days, you would be suprised at the number of articles defending Rumsfeld. So I started to look them all up, what they said before, and do a quick diary.
By the time I was done, I was quite demoralized.
"I-know-better" generals get on the slippery slope
Apr 21, 2006
by Charles Krauthammer
Charles Krauthammer
Mr. King of Strawmen writes:
There are three possible complaints that the military brass could have against a secretary of defense.
There are a hell of lot more than three mister "I-know-better". There are at least 100, 000 dead Iraqis, a small army of walking wounded American soldiers, on top of the several thousand dead U.S. soldiers. Happy! You gladly sent them all to their grave with your confident pronouncements of us needing to go to war.. Speaking of I know better, let us look at one of your statements:
DR. KRAUTHAMMER: Hans Blix had five months to find weapons. He found nothing. We've had five weeks. Come back to me in five months. If we haven't found any, we will have a credibility problem. I don't have any doubt that we will locate them.
AEI school of love
Well Mr. Kill Arabs, then find out facts, you have a serious problem. Either you lied or you were incompetent. Sadly for our society, you still get paid millions to write bullshit articles to defend warmongerers while the poor in the world rot and die. Defend Rumsfeld all you want you miserable excuse for a human.
"All-star shame"
Apr 21, 2006
by Oliver North
Oliver North
Before this futile endeavor is further complicated, before the mission is further expanded, before another American casualty, Congress should:
· Exact a written guarantee that all U.S. troops will be out of the Balkans by June 1998;
· Require that the administration immediately commence a phased withdrawal of U.S. units;
· Require the administration to present a written mission summary and exit strategy to Congress prior to any further deployment of U.S. forces to the region in accordance with a North Atlantic Command mission.
· Require that the administration comply with these criteria by refusing to fund the Balkans mission beyond June 1998.
The failure to verify this administration's word has cost us dearly. Lives have been lost. Readiness has been degraded. Scarce resources have been squandered.
Retired Officer North being critical of the U.S. Forces deployments.
My how times change. Now you defend an administration that has no exit strategy. No hint of telling Congress what the hell they are up to. No concern for how many troops will die before they are done. Readiness? It is to laugh (except our defense could be threatened.)
Instead, you defend Rumsfeld at all costs while troops die. The military atrophies. Our world standing plummets. But what the hell, you make millions now.
Bring me the head of Donald Rumsfeld
Apr 20, 2006
by Clifford D. May
Clifford D. May
Yet another strawman article. Ignores the whole fact that Rumsfeld screwed up royal by not having enough troops, and focuses on what to do from now on. It's the critics' fault for not having a way to put humpty-dumpty back together! It's not Rumsfeld's fault for breaking it. Let's see who else we defend shall we:
......on July 11, 2003, NRO published May's first attack on Wilson -- many more would follow right up to the present -- depicting the ambassador as a "pro-Saudi, leftist partisan with an axe to grind." The article -- and this is the curious part -- included the following passage: "Mr. Wilson was sent to Niger by the CIA to verify a U.S. intelligence report about the sale of yellowcake -- because Vice President Dick Cheney requested it, because Cheney had doubts about the validity of the intelligence report." This phrasing is fascinating because it purports to know Cheney's subjective motivation, and the motivation ascribed to him -- that he had "doubts" about the Niger story -- conflicts with everything we've otherwise come to understand about why he asked for the Niger story to be investigated. It hints, certainly, at how consciously Cheney would indeed fix the facts when it came to Saddam's nuclear doings. "
I got this far and had to stop. Everyone of these asshole lied us into war. They are all still doing their same jobs as if nothing happened. Rumsfeld is still the War Secretary. Cheney is still Vice President. And pundits in every paper throughout the country both defend that, and want war with Iran.
Here are a few more defend the wargod who looks over our oil resources articles:
Generals defend Rumsfeld
By Rowan Scarborough
Scarborough
Seven days in April - Generals prepare to "revolt" against Rumsfeld
Apr 18, 2006
by Tony Blankley
Tony Blankley
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And the following people should all be at Gitmo: (sorry Sen Schumer, but if Hamas can be accused by guilt with association, then so can you. Anyone that associates with these people is a rot on humanity.)
With a name like Foundation for Defense of Democracies, you know they are up to something...
Board of Directors
* Steve Forbes, CEO Forbes Magazine
* Dr. Jeane J. Kirkpatrick, Fmr. Ambassador to the UN
* Jack Kemp, Fmr. Secretary of Housing and Urban Development
* Clifford D. May, Frm. Republican National Committee Director of Communications - President
Distinguished Advisors
* Judge Louis J. Freeh, Fmr. Director of the FBI
* R. James Woolsey, Fmr. Director of the CIA
* Newt Gingrich, Fmr. Speaker of the House
[edit]Board of Advisors
* Gary Bauer, American Values - President
* Charles Krauthammer, Syndicated Columnist
* Donna Brazile, Campaign Manager Gore 2000
* Bill Kristol, Weekly Standard Editor
* Hon. Richard D. Lamm, Fmr. Colorado Governor
* Rep. Eliot Engel (D-NY), U.S. House of Representatives
* Sen. Frank Lautenberg (D-NJ), U.S. Senate
* Rep. Mark Foley (R-FL), U.S. House of Representatives
* Rep. Jim Marshall (D-GA), U.S. House of Representatives
* Frank Gaffney, Center for Security Policy President
* Sen. Zell Miller, Fmr. US Senator
* Amb. Marc Ginsberg, Fmr. Ambassador Morroco
* Richard Perle, Former Chair of the Defense Policy Board and FDD Advisor
* Rep. J.D. Hayworth (R-AZ), U.S. House of Representatives
* Sen. Charles E. Schumer (D-NY), U.S. Senate
* Charles Jacobs, American Anti-Slavery Group President