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Posted on Dec 10, 2006
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Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld with U.S. troops in Iraq during a visit in 2004.

While saying goodbye to the troops in Iraq, outgoing Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld made what one can only hope was his last erroneous link between the war and 9/11: “We feel great urgency to protect the American people from another 9/11 or a 9/11 times two or three ... .”


New York Times:

The outgoing secretary of defense, Donald H. Rumsfeld, paid a surprise visit to Iraq this weekend and said American troops should stay in the country until the insurgents were defeated.

“We feel great urgency to protect the American people from another 9/11 or a 9/11 times two or three,” Mr. Rumsfeld said on Saturday, in remarks that were posted on the Defense Department’s Web site, in the Anbar province west of Baghdad.

“At the same time, we need to have the patience to see this task through to success,” he said. “The consequences of failure are unacceptable.”

[Sunday] was the second day of what American military officials said was Mr. Rumsfeld’s farewell visit to the troops. An American military spokesman said Mr. Rumsfeld was scheduled to travel to other bases outside Baghdad ... before returning to Washington.

Last week, an independent panel that issued recommendations for changing strategy in Iraq, the Iraq Study Group, delivered a report amid mounting domestic anxiety about the war in Iraq, a month after midterm elections that brought the Democrats to power in Congress and prompted President Bush to dismiss Mr. Rumsfeld as defense secretary.

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By Robert, December 11, 2006 at 5:58 pm Link to this comment
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Rumsfeld, Cheney & the gang of murdering liars (Paul Wolfowitz, Richard Perle, Douglas Feith, Eliott Abrams, Adelman, David Wurmser, William Kristol, Ari Fleischer, Scooter Libby, Michael Chertoff, American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) members/lobbyists, Israel’s American Embassies intelligence personnel / Mossad agents, Henry Kissinger & others with our zionist pro-Israel mainstream U.S. News media) played a very active role in pushing & promoting for this chaotic Iraq war…which was all based on pure lies about WMD’s.


This wrong war has cost our America almost 3,000 military deaths, over 22,000 of military injuries, over 300,000 Iraqi deaths so far with no close end in site.

This “Gang Of Liar’s War” is costing the U.S. taxpayers about $8-10 billion dollars per month. So far, over $400 billion dollars spent…all for pure lies & Iraq’s famous “WMD’S”.

Rumsfeld was well informed about the Abu Ghuraib Tortures & Human Rights abuses for over a year before the leaks & photos began to appear.

What happened to him…nothing?

Rumsfeld is a damn liar and he knows much of the false intelligence that corcerns the 9/11 Pentagon attack. Where are all the video tapes from the roof tops of the Pentagon, hotels and gas station in the area? Why were these tapes confiscated? What really hit the pentagon? Who examined all the evidence?

Rumsfeld has no genuine feelings for any tragedy; all he cares about is being out there looking tough and in-charge.

ITS ALL ABOUT THAT FALSE PERCEPTION!

The blood of all those lives that were lost is on his hands & the hands of his gang of liars.

What does he have to worry about? He doesn’t have any family members in this stupid war. He is just getting richer & more arrogant by the day.

Most likely that he will write a book just to make more money from all the chaos & deaths that he actively pushed for.

EVERY EVIL DOG HAS HIS DAY ON THIS EARTH & AFTER!!!

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By Oil Monger, December 11, 2006 at 1:47 pm Link to this comment
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Whatever dude, just as long as gas prices stay low, and the body bags keep coming in, I’m happy.

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By Jim Anderton, December 11, 2006 at 12:42 pm Link to this comment
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This madness isn’t restriced to the U.S. either. Up here in Canada we’re losing people weekly in Afghanistan for no reason I can see other than our membership in NATO, whose European countries with the exception of Britain hide in the safe zones while our young men and women enfure suicide bombing and ambushes. I’m sick of seeing my county’s flag at half mast in front of every post office. Let’s get ‘em all home and let that part of the world stew in its own juice.

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By John C. Bonser, December 11, 2006 at 8:59 am Link to this comment
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Even in disgrace he has no shame!

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By brewerstroupe, December 11, 2006 at 2:40 am Link to this comment
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In your average corporation, let’s say Halliburton; you get fired, they’ve already cleaned out your desk and security is waiting to see you to the elevator.
This guy gets to make the grand justification tour.
Oh my American friends, something is seriously pear-shaped here.

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By Montie Shields USAF RET., December 10, 2006 at 10:18 pm Link to this comment
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Why didn’t thet feel this same urgency before
9/11? A few questions need honest answers.
After the change over from the Clinton Admin-
istration why did Condoleezza Rice make eradi-
cating Poppy Crops in Afghanistan more import-
ant than CONCENTRATING on TERRIORISM, as Sandy
Berger advised. Why did the Bush gang give $1.5
MILLION to the Taliban for Crop Subsidy. How
many Poppy Farmers do you think got a nickel
of that money. Upon being told that people
from the Middle East was taking flying lessons,
but didn’t care about learning to LAND THE
PLANE! Shouldn’t that give them cause for con-
cern? This should have given someone cause for
URGENCY. Why don’t they just say WE BLEW IT.among

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By Jackie T. Gabel, December 10, 2006 at 9:13 pm Link to this comment
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The 911Truth movement is continually being accused of not “moving on” from the 911 issue. It’s clear why 911Truth is the only solution to this nightmare. At this point 911 is the neocons’ raison d’être. They hammer it whenever they’re desperate. They know it was an inside job by a rogue network from which they’ve been taking orders ever since.

The struggle now going on within the oligarch class between the moderate imperialists and the Strange Love faction is showing up in numerous limited hangouts, e.g. “State of Denial,” “Fiasco,” “Triple Cross,” “Report of the Iran Study Group,” et al. It offers the madmen and “incompetence” escape hatch, and a few have taken it, e.g. Perl, Rumsfeld. But, the struggle may very well not resolve before we see another incident.

Look for something along the lines of a suspicious attack on the Eisenhower or Enterprise Carrier Group, possibly by a missile from inside Iran, where US Special Forces have been operating for several years. Look for the neocons to leap to the nations’ “defense,” and immediately call for a wider war. Don’t be surprised if they launch on Iran without notifying Congress, very possibly nuclear.

Taking down these madmen is essential. Support 911Truth!

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By HeadlessHessian, December 10, 2006 at 7:34 pm Link to this comment
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What else can you say but AAAARRRRGGGHHH!!!!!!

Headless

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By John Liozeris, December 10, 2006 at 7:21 pm Link to this comment
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Was Rumsfeld canned to prevent a revolt by the troops in Iraq ?

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By Dan Noel, December 10, 2006 at 5:01 pm Link to this comment
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What a good idea! To avoid another 9/11! But all Rumsfeld has to do is convince his colleagues in the federal government to not repeat it. Or even better, candidly come out with everything he knows about the 9/11 cover-up; a public acknowledgement that 9/11 was mostly a bad-taste farce by the federal governmentt would be by far the best antidote against a repeat.

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By james, December 10, 2006 at 4:33 pm Link to this comment
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Rumsfeld is bad for troop morale. He already got fired.

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By felicity, December 10, 2006 at 3:11 pm Link to this comment
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We could say poor Rummy, lost in his fantasy of being the greatest Secretary of Defense America has ever known - except that his fantasy has created a tragedy the effects of which will be felt for life-times by hundreds of thousands of grieving people.

He will rationalize that the suffering of others, always others, is ultimately serving his epical vision of world democracy (and no more 9/11’s.)

Now all we have to do is fire the other delusionals.

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By SuGee, December 10, 2006 at 3:00 pm Link to this comment
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Wait a minute!  The Iraq War is exactly another 9/11 x2 or 3.  The death, the destruction of our economy, of the middle class; all part of the BIG PLAN.  What a better candidate than George W. Bush.  I’ll bet that he was belittled by his domineering mother for all his lazy and destructive attitudes.  What kind of a mother doesn’t teach her young son to not abuse small animals?  Barbara is that kind.  He’s got her personality and her destructive nature is portrayed by all of her children.

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By Quy Tran, December 10, 2006 at 1:27 pm Link to this comment
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Let’s him vomitting more and more. Nobody trust him because this clown will go down to septic tank to replace fertilizer.

We’re a free country and of course he can breath without being hygienic and lack of toilet paper.

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