Inside Rummy’s Crusade

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Posted on May 18, 2009

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Critics say Rumsfeld shared the very traits—arrogance, stubbornness, obliviousness, ineptitude—that drove the Bush presidency off the rails.

An GQ expose reveals Donald Rumsfeld’s alarming penchant for melding scripture and foreign policy during his time as secretary of defense in the Bush administration. The report also discloses how disliked Rummy was by his peers. “There was exasperation,” one former Bush aide said. “How much more are we going to have to endure? Why are we keeping this guy?” 

GQ:

On the morning of Thursday, April 10, 2003, Donald Rumsfeld’s Pentagon prepared a top-secret briefing for George W. Bush. This document, known as the Worldwide Intelligence Update, was a daily digest of critical military intelligence so classified that it circulated among only a handful of Pentagon leaders and the president; Rumsfeld himself often delivered it, by hand, to the White House. The briefing’s cover sheet generally featured triumphant, color images from the previous days’ war efforts: On this particular morning, it showed the statue of Saddam Hussein being pulled down in Firdos Square, a grateful Iraqi child kissing an American soldier, and jubilant crowds thronging the streets of newly liberated Baghdad. And above these images, and just below the headline secretary of defense, was a quote that may have raised some eyebrows. It came from the Bible, from the book of Psalms: “Behold, the eye of the Lord is on those who fear Him … To deliver their soul from death.”

Read GQ’s full report here

Also check out GQ’s slideshow of Rumsfeld Worldwide Intelligence Update covers here

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By Purple Girl, May 20, 2009 at 3:50 am Link to this comment

W would serve himself and US well to come forward and admit what we all already know- his Presidency was highjacked by Cheney,Rummy and Wolfie, along with their propaganda minister Rove.
In fact Cheney “Basically” confessed to that fact.
Come on W, they played you like a violin working your ignarance, arrogance and religious self righteousness, TESTIFY!

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By Robert, May 19, 2009 at 6:34 pm Link to this comment

By BruSays, May 19 at 8:51 pm

“11. They all wrapped themselves in the Bible and the Flag while they killed, tortured, lied, and scammed.”
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Great post BruSays… take a little time to watch this recent short video of Rumsfeld…he just keeps grinning like he’s never committed any crimes.

 

Rumsfeld Remained

You’re A War Criminal

Video

At the entrance to the White House Correspondents Dinner, Donald Rumsfeld remained by Codepink “You’re A War Criminal”

Posted May 15, 2009

http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22622.htm

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By BruSays, May 19, 2009 at 5:51 pm Link to this comment

What more will it take? Unless you were born last Tuesday, you know that:
1. Bush lied about Niger “yellow cake.”
2. Bush lied about Saddam Hussein’s role in 9/11.
3. Bush lied about domestic spying.
4. Rice lied about her role in torture.
5. Rice lied about the ‘smoking gun.’
6. Gonzales lied about his appointments.
7. Cheney lied about everything.
8. Rumsfeld lied about Pat Tillman’s cause of death.
9. Rumsfeld lied about Jessica Lynch’s role.
10. They ALL lied about manipulating facts in the push for war.
11. They all wrapped themselves in the Bible and the Flag while they killed, tortured, lied, and scammed.

Yet, WE voted in Bush/Cheney, WE re-voted in Bush/Cheney (or, at the very least, WE permitted election fraud), and KNOWING ALL THE ABOVE, WE have allowed these criminals and their cronies to not only skip out scott-free, but to continue to contribute their opinions on the evening news!

And so, in the end, it is WE THE PEOPLE who will be held accountable for it all. Future generations will look back and wonder, “What the f… were they thinking?”

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By Clifford A. Kiracofe, May 19, 2009 at 9:25 am Link to this comment
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My book entitled “Dark Crusade: Christian Zionism and US Foreign Policy” will be coming out in June through my London publisher I.B. Tauris with PalgraveMacmillan distributing worldwide.

Those interested in the background the revelations on Rummy may be interested.

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By hippie4ever, May 19, 2009 at 9:25 am Link to this comment

Let’s not forget who finally won the Crusades, and that the Middle East remains heavily Muslim.

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By Jim Yell, May 19, 2009 at 7:39 am Link to this comment
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Rummy should be in jail awaiting trial. I will not forget his dismissivnes to questions about what and why they were going against the facts to push their phony war.

Rummy deserves no pass. He is the one who declared that only he Bush/Cheney knew what needed to be done and then proved that none of them had a clue to what to do or how to do it.

It is time to demand that Obama stop protecting the violent, lying clique that got us into this mess.

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By jr., May 18, 2009 at 11:16 pm Link to this comment

Rumsey must have suspected his quotes would be acceptable to the chief priest in office at the time.  Perhaps georgie saw himself as a second burning bush?

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By richard east, May 18, 2009 at 8:11 pm Link to this comment

And we wonder why so many view the “global war on terror” as a God damn holy war. Bush has already called this a “crusade.” Now this with Rumsfeld. Could this be a way in which ole Rummie sold the war to Dubya? by taking advantage of and appealing to his being a born again Christian?

(sigh)

Obama’s worries about releasing pictures of us torturing and abusing prisoners,  because it might hurt our image, and now then this happens.

We need to hold these scumbags accountable for all the ever-emerging crazy shit they have done. Truly, history will be the judge of this embarrassing administration.

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By msgmi, May 18, 2009 at 7:25 pm Link to this comment
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According to Dick Cheney, Rumsfeld was the best ever SecDef. Boosom buddies to the end.

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By Mary Ann McNeely, May 18, 2009 at 4:05 pm Link to this comment
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When I was a kid there a cartoon show called “Crusader Rabbit”.  I guess he grew up to be Rumsfeld.

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