Letters to the Editor
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poor little rummy
It couldn't happen to a nicer torture-backing, micromanaging, incompetent, megalomanic, war criminal.
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Good...
...fucking riddance.
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Wah-Wah
The only thing hard to understand is how Rumsfeld and company aren't being tried for war crimes.
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And so another "Lobbyist" is born
Good riddance to bad trash... let's just hope Dick goes scurrying out the door after him so he can be locked out as well.
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I'm sure...
Yeah Rumsfeld, the simple minded American public could never comprehend the complexity of the Iraq war. That is why your career has been a complete and utter failure. I'm sure.
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don't understand?
Ah, Don. You really do think we're all a bunch of morons.
I know, you DID run a Big Pharma company for years. That would be enough to make anyone cynical.
But, I'm here to tell you: we understand that war all too well. And we understand that you--you, personally--fucked it up from soup to nuts (although, tragically, the nuts have not yet arrived--ah, the puns possible in THAT line!).
You made MacNamara look like a genius. How's that for fucking things up?
We understand that you're an arrogant incompetent, fighting the wrong war, at the wrong time, for the wrong reasons, in the entirely wrong way. How much more fucked-up can you get?
So, Don, from all of us, to you, we do understand this war. We understand it all too well, alas. What is really tragic, is that you didn't.
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Yeah, you know....
They didn't teach Graceful Losing at Republican School. Clearly we're all just dumb.
However, they did teach me Joyful Gloating at Democrat school. I'm having a great day.
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Hey Rumsfeld - It's not our job to understand...
...it's YOUR fucking job to understand the situation you thrown our young men and women into. When no progress is made, when the situation becomes worse, when you can't 'spin' it to your advantage any longer, then it's time for you to GO. Speaking of not understanding, I don't understand how your incompetent ass can sleep at night, knowing that the young men and women who are dying for oil, aren't even supplied with the basic protections they need.
You sir, are getting off scott-free. You sir, deserve so much more.
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"The only thing hard to understand is how Rumsfeld and company aren't being tried for war crimes."
Patience, my pet.
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Scary
Notice how he said "first" war of the 21st century?
Gotta wonder what the second, third, etc. wars Busch and Co. have on drawing boards.
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Amazing
This may be the first ex-cabinet that needs secret service protection. Maybe they should leave the country, pick up Saddam and all exile themselves to the French Riviera or one of those other Muslim countries.
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Not complex at all
There's a very simple equation under it all and Rumball just doesn't think you have the algebra smarts to grasp it. I think you do, so here it is.
Let X represent the number of soldiers who will die in the war, while P represents the amount of political power that is generated by the war (as an exponent of a compliant populace). This results in the first-order equation:
P > X
Now factor in the amount of devastation and ill-will generated in the warred-upon as Z, and also add the commensurate profits to be made off that exploitation as $. Our equation is now:
(P + $) > (X + Z)
That's it. You could try to make it a little more accurate by dividing the left side of the equation by the percentage chance that the people who caused these problems will also have to clean the mess up, but algebra doesn't allow division by zero.
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I SEE AND UNDERSTAND OK . RUMSFELDS VISION? MORE OF A NIGHTMARE.
We know that oil is the main reason. The GWOT was a construction put up
for domestic political purposes. AIPAC lines of thinking surely are very
likely involved. Severe underestimation and terrible high repeat cycles
of fact and truth denial. Traditional post-WW2 American ecomomic,political
and militarism playbook stuff.Seen and understood. Didn't understand
or didn't endorse and support? Only thing Americans can be thankful
about is we have some mighty big credit cards floating around to charge
things on. When the money finally runs out DC will be just another Thebes
in dusty decline. No real money power equals no militarism and imperialism.
Whatever Rumsfeld saw or sees is not hard to find in post-WW2 American
foreign affairs history. I think lots of Americans would be happy if that
history was not what it is. American meddling and subversion in other
parts of the world are at root of much what ails American politics today.
Empire costs money. Corporations like to socialize the costs and privatize
the profits. The Bush2WH fully endorsing this. And it is certain the costs
of Iraq invasion,occupation and those seldom discussed "super bases" are
first page exhibits of socialized costs being borne by American taxpayers
so the big four global energy giants can have their profits. How many now
dead? American and Iraqi? It is too bad 2006 election results came either
four or two years too late. I see.I understand. Rumsfeld is as his boss
would put it--a comma--who just came to the period at end of his run. He
faces some high stakes now in some circles for being a war criminal--it is
certain that will be all about what was seen and understood too. His now
old boss, G.W.Bush , was gloating over Saddam's fate just the other day.
How goes it? What goes around comes around?
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Rummy's War
"It is not well known, it is not well understood, it is complex for people to comprehend,"
Speak for yourself dimwit.
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What Rummy didn't get
The lesson from the Soviet invasion of Afganistan; that it would take years and a large commitment of men and material to unify the warlords, fend off the Taliban once they've regrouped and rebuild the country. Much more time and resources than could afford a second war.
That Iraq was contained and militarily too weak to be a threat to anyone.
That his commanders were right when they said he needed more troops for the occupation.
That without a strong and well prepared new leadership, Iraq could descend into a bloodbath as Shia and Sunnis settle centuries long grudges.
That failing to protect the infrastructure would lead to widespread chaos and looting with long lasting repercussions in pacifying the country.
That firing the entire Baath party, the police and military would leave the country without trained goverment and business workers and add half a million armed and trained, but now insulted and unemployed, men to the insurgency.
That failing to seize arms depots would provide insurgents with weapons and explosives for years to come.
That allowing torture of prisoners would alienate the Iraqi people and further inflame the insurgency.
That all of this was predicted and planned years ago.
That when "stuff" happens heads often roll, including his.