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 Posted: Thu Dec 30, 2004 12:07 pm Post subject: The Chief Weirdo at the Pentagon Rumsfeld Must Go |
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The Chief Weirdo at the Pentagon Rumsfeld Must Go
By BRIAN CLOUGHLEY
The new-model, compassionate, caring, tender-hearted, public-related Donald Rumsfeld flew to Iraq Christmas Eve, and went to Mosul. We are assured by the Pentagon that the Mosul visit by their CEO was - but of course - planned well before the carnage in the mess hall and that Rumsfeld went to see wounded soldiers because he is a caring and compassionate sort of guy. Pass the sick bag, Alice.
There is abundant evidence that Rumsfeld, described by Bush as an "doing a very fine job" as his Secretary for War and Incompetence, is an insensitive creep who has all the tender feelings, urbane charm, moral awareness and civilized manners of the recently not-appointed Bernard Kerik. His antics at the Pentagon have been a disaster for the United States. He has proved to be Osama bin Laden's Secret Weapon, such is his never-failing aptitude for clumsy and callous statements that are the hair-tearing despair of his supporters, some of whom are beginning to realize he is CEO of the greatest military shambles that has befallen America since Kennedy and MacNamara began the Vietnam War.
On May 6, 2004 The Economist carried a cover piece titled "Resign, Rumsfeld". This exhortation, coming from a publication that believes the world is a better place for having CEOs who display some of the more unpleasant characteristics of Attila the Hun, was an extraordinary yet appropriate demand for removal of a man who is arrogant, evasive, mendacious and stupid.
Even the New York Times criticized him when the sadistic torture at Abu Ghraib was first uncovered. It pronounced that "The world is waiting now for a sign that President Bush understands the seriousness of what has happened. It needs to be more than his repeated statements that he is sorry the rest of the world does not "understand the true nature and heart of America". Mr Bush should start showing the state of his own heart by demanding the resignation of his secretary of defense." There seems little chance of that happening. Even the latest discoveries of torture at Guantanamo Bay and of torture and murder of countless Iraqis and Afghans in hideous circumstances are not being sheeted home to Rumsfeld and his grubby minions.
Rumsfeld's flaring anxiety and spiteful (and often incoherent) responses when posed discomfiting questions are a matter for deep concern. Sometimes he indulges in insults or what he intends as humor (often of the crudest kind, as about Afghanistan : "WE haven't run out of targets: THEY have"), but his panic attacks may be symptoms of a troubling mental malaise. One wonders if the men in white coats may be preparing a padded room for him. His absurd throw-away line about lack of armor protection for soldiers in Iraq was but one example of his inability to understand the real world, but it isn't that particular incident that may prove to be the top of the ice-slide down which, we must all hope, the hard-hearted thug will thunder to richly-deserved oblivion. In the end the decider for Rumsfeld will probably prove to be his contemptuous (and contemptible) treatment of soldiers' relatives.
Rumsfeld's refusal to personally sign letters of condolence to the next-of-kin of soldiers killed in the useless war in Iraq (and presumably Afghanistan) was presented to us by his gnomes as being necessary to get the letters out quickly. That is a deceitful and insulting explanation, simply because personal signing of even fifty letters doesn't take more than a few minutes. And the instant follow-up claim that Rumsfeld is away from his office so much that the auto-pen is quicker just doesn't wash. Nobody waits with bated breath to receive a letter of condolence. It might relieve some of the ache when it comes, but bereaved relatives don't expect it to arrive right away. The new (caring) policy that will have Rumsfeld personally signing messages makes it obvious that the explanation about speeding-up dispatch of letters was a silly lie. His weirdly asinine comment that "I have directed that in the future I sign each letter" presumably means he has told his staff to put letters on his desk rather than into the auto-pen, but what he should have said was : "I'm sorry. I was insensitive and personally wrong not to sign letters of condolence in the past and I will ensure I sign them in future".
But the arrogant Rumsfeld couldn't utter such decent words ; they wouldn't get past his lips. (Incidentally : does Rumsfeld sign letters to the relatives of those who are non-combat fatalities? Do the nearest and dearest of those who die of diseases contracted in Iraq matter as much as those who are killed by car bombs? And will he sign letters to the relatives of those who die of wounds several months after they are shot or blown up? Is there a cut-off date for expressions of sympathy?)
The plain fact is that Rumsfeld, like all abrasive, cocky and malevolent CEOs, does not believe that human beings are important. People in US military uniform don't matter unless they are his personally selected sycophantic yes-team, and all others are but dust beneath the wheels of his (well-armored) chariot. He, more than any other individual apart from the Commander-in-Chief, is responsible for the shambles in Iraq. And neither he nor George W ('The Buck Stops Anywhere But Here') Bush could care less about the atrocities in Abu Ghraib, Guantanamo Bay, the hell holes in Afghanistan, and other torture chambers on ships and in faraway colonial gulags.
In the Bush/Rumsfeld prison camp at Guantanamo Bay there are hundreds of people, some of whom are children. We have recently learned there are seven kids still there, but the fact that there are any children at all in this terrible place is barely believable. The news was revealed by accident, which is not surprising because you would think that even the most hardhearted, cynical and unmerciful individual would feel just a tad shamefaced about slamming kids inside without any human rights whatever.
Well . . . no. There is not the slightest remorse felt by Rumsfeld, Bush or General Myers, America's senior military figure. Myers justified imprisonment of children by saying his teenage prisoners "are very dangerous. Some have killed, some have stated they are going to kill again. They may be juveniles, but they're not on the Little League team anywhere, they're on a major league team and it's a terrorist team and they're in Guantanamo for a very good reason, for our safety, for your safety." His pronouncement was bizarre.
More- http://www.counterpunch.org/cloughley12282004.html
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The man is obviously guilthy of numerous war and other crimes but keeping children in concentration camps should be enough reason to lock him up forever. 
Related,read and sign please:
http://www.ccr-ny.org/v2/whatsnew/action/actionAlert2.asp
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I signed the letter to the German agency in hopes that Rumsfeld and his croonies will get what they deserve!
Peace,
Torkel 
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As did I. They seem to think that they are the only ones that are not committing war crimes when the exact opposite is true.
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