All posts tagged Donald Rumsfeld
I'm not always wearing my full habit...
Welcome to Boston, Mr. Rumsfeld. You Are Under Arrest.
(via a whole lot of people)
Former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld has been stripped of legal immunity for acts of torture against US citizens authorized while he was in office. The 7th Circuit made the ruling in the case of two American contractors who were tortured by the US military in Iraq after uncovering a smuggling ring within an Iraqi security company. The company was under contract to the Department of Defense. The company was assisting Iraqi insurgent groups in the “mass acquisition” of American weapons. The ruling comes as Rumsfeld begins his book tour with a visit to Boston on Monday, September 26, and as new, uncensored photos of Abu Ghraib spark fresh outrage across Internet. Awareness is growing that Bush-era crimes went far beyond mere waterboarding.
And here’s a sampling of responses:
HANG THE FUCKER
CHENEY AND KISSINGER WHILE WE’RE AT IT
kill him.
idgaf.
hang him.
i was just thinking about rumsfeld today and how far his influence in american conservatism goes back.
this really is almost unbelievable.
Good news
America shouldn’t descend to the death penalty. Not even for Mr. Rumsfeld.
See, even the worst among us are beloved children of God. We are told to pray for our enemies, to love them. We don’t ever have to like anybody, but we must extend basic respect and human dignity to all persons. Even those with whom we disagree, those who do harm to others, those who tarnish our good name.
So pray for Mr. Rumsfeld and Mr. Cheney. Can you imagine anyone who needs prayer more than they do?
What It’s Like to Work for Donald Rumsfeld, from Alexis Madrigal of The Atlantic
This image is a message (probably an email) that Rumsfeld sent to then Under Secretary of Defense for Policy Douglas Feith on April 7, 2003. You can read it in all its 56-word glory. Here’s the text of the memo:
TO: Doug Feith
FROM: Donald Rumsfeld
SUBJECT: Issues w/various countriesWe need more coercive diplomacy with respect to Syria and Libya, and we need it fast. If they mess up Iraq, it will delay bringing our troops home.
We also need to solve the Pakistan problem.
And Korea doesn’t seem to be going so well.
Are you coming up with proposals for me to send around?
Thanks.
Really. That’s it. Now, I’ve experienced the phenomenon of working with such large amounts of money that it ceased to have any real meaning for me. It became an academic exercise, far divorced from finding every last penny in my own beleaguered checking account.
But this? How can one ever become so jaded and cynical that one writes off entire nations, countries filled with people just like you, as “a problem.” The Pakistan problem?!? How can that not be completely, one-hundred-percent offensive? How can any person fail to be disgusted by this.
Then, almost as an afterthought, North Korea doesn’t seem to be going well. How does a nation of nearly 24 million individual men, women, and children get so casually dismissed like this?
It doesn’t matter one iota that I disagree with the politics of Mr. Rumsfeld. It doesn’t matter which presidents he served under. If Mr. Gates or Mr. Aspin or Mr. McNamara said something this… this… inhuman, I’d be shouting just as loud.
Mister Donald Rumsfeld, Undercover Nun is praying for your immortal soul.
(Source: rumsfeld.com)
