The former Defense Secretary was on Charlie Rose the other night. Rose asked him about the Iraq war.
Rose: You had a list of things that could go wrong…
Rumsfeld: I was worried about a lot of things that could go wrong. It’s in my website. It’s called the Parade of Horribles now. I sat down and said, what are the kinds of things that could go wrong and listed a whole series of them. And fortunately some of them haven’t. Unfortunately some of them happened…
Rose: Sectarian conflict was one of them.
Rumsfeld: Sure. Exactly. But war has to be the last resort and I was hopeful to the very end that the president and the United States and the coalition would be successful in getting Saddam Hussein to either acquiesce and agree with the United Nations or leave the country, or that he could be killed at Dora farms in that first attack... He wasn't there.
(One question: How seriously should anyone take a defense secretary who writes memos called the Parade of Horribles when he's contemplating bombing an Arab country, and files this and other such memos under the heading "Snowflakes"?)
Get your war on, August 8 2008
-So Iraq is almost fixed ; We’ll withdraw by the end of 2010 or wherever. We can drop off a final load of food in Afghanistan on our way out of the region. then everyone will come home. The End.
-What happens if there’s another terrorist attack?
-Why would there be another terrorist attack?
Rumsfeld ‘s list is missing the biggest risk
- Having Rumsfeld in charge
Strip #2 on this page: Still the best GYWO ever. :-)
>> How seriously should anyone take a defense secretary who writes memos called the Parade of Horribles when he’s contemplating bombing an Arab country, and files this and other such memos under the heading “Snowflakes”?)
How seriously should anyone take a country that preaches freedom, justice, democracy and accountability, then shits all over the aforementioned and rewards members of its various administrations with cushy retirements and lucrative speaking engagements and book deals?
(No, I don’t hate America for its freedoms. ;-) )
Rumsfeld is a war criminal. In other countries they put their leaders who are war criminals on trial or the ICC goes after them. When it comes to U.S. leaders who lie a nation into an invasion based on a “pack of lies” they just write books and go on talk shows. Some become foreign policy advisers, or upper level CEO’s at defense companies. Rumsfeld and team belong in orange jump suits behind bars
He is a war criminal but long before that he was an idiot.
How many veteran suicides can be traced back to his decisions ?
Long before he was a war criminal, Rumsfeld, then CEO of aspartame-maker Searle, used his political clout to push through FDA approval of aspartame in 1983. Who knows how many people died as a result of that?
‘War should be the last resort’ –Donald Rumsfeld
‘All we are saying is give peace a chance’ –Attila the Hun
first good laugh of the day, thanks shmuel
since no one has been held accountable for the lies and manufactured “evidence” which got us into the Iraq war, the criminals responsible are free to spin the facts and alter perception at will … and they do
we had hopes Obama (and his AG Holder) would issue indictments and some of the war-criminals (Yoo, Neocon Thirty, Cheney, et al) would be on their way to trials and prison and maybe The Hague
Romney as president would put the Neocon Thirty in charge
“War should be a last resort” is simplistic BS for people who don’t understand the nature of the modern capitalist system
War is key to the operation of the system
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“I was very hopeful to the very end that the president and the United States and the coalition would be successful in getting Saddam Hussein to either acquiesce and agree with the United Nations…”
Rubbish. The UN inspection regime found no WMD and their mission was aborted. They were told to leave before the bombs started falling. Saddam had been acquiesing to and agreeing with the UN. Rumsfeld is a liar.
All we are saying is give war a chance.