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"Keep elevating the threat" Rumsfeld wrote in a memo after a meeting with military analysts last year as the press and public sentiment over the Iraq war grew more critical in the months before his ouster. "Talk about Somalia the Philippines etc. Make sure the American people realize they are surrounded in the world by violent extremists." The memos were known in the Pentagon as "snowflakes" because they descended so prolifically from Rumsfeld's third-floor office. Rumsfeld once the youngest Defense Secretary under Gerald Ford maintained his energy as the oldest secretary under President Bush firing off 20 to 60 such memos a day from his standing desk where he worked without a chair. Some are quite pointed as is to be expected when coming from a man once named one of America's toughest bosses by Fortune magazine. A former senior Pentagon official likes to tell the story of the time Rumsfeld scolded an assistant for some perceived error then dictated a memo explaining what she'd done wrong -- and asked her to type it and deliver it. To herself. and you’ll find that manyenterprising reporters came across them –- and it was always considereda coup. As a Los Angeles Times Pentagon correspondent. I rememberreporting on a snowflake in which Rumsfeld asked acting Army SecretaryLes Brownlee and Army Chief of Staff Gen. Peter J. Schoomaker whetherthe Army could do shorter rotations. "I would be interested to hear from you as to why you think you shouldkeep doing 12-month rotations and if you were to change to 6. 7. 8 or9 months how you would do it and what would be the pros and cons." Some were more controversial then others. In one snowflake memo hequestioned the Muslim work ethic noting that the Middle East’s vastoil reserves often insulated Arabs from manual labor. “Too often Muslims are against physical labor so they bring in Koreansand Pakistanis while their young people remain unemployed," he wrote."An unemployed population is easy to recruit to radicalism.” Anyone who's ever been the target of Rumsfeld's tart attacks on mediareports knows he often took on individual reporters. I still remembergetting a call one morning from a friend who urged me to turn on thetelevision. Many reporters felt the secretary’s ire. In one memo last year Rumsfeldwrote "We need to prepare a response to this piece by Clarence Page,"of The Chicago Tribune. This is what it is all about! It is playing games with other peoples lives when no need exists. Our leaders are culpable. We send them to Washington to work for us and they work for THEM! They spend the money of the poor to benefit the rich and the murder kids who are 18 and 19 of pure lies. I know how that feels as I was a victim of a lie that started Vietnam. 58,219 kids died there for absolutely nothing just as they die today in Iraq! Bush needs to be impeached along with his narcasstic appointees. Any Republican part of that shame needs to be shown the door at election time. We need a country For the People not against them! Too few benefit at the expense of the many. That is not how it was suppose to be. That is not the way it should be. Run them out of office. They are all liars and thieves! If it were any other time America would be calling for the indictment of these foul and immoral people. Bush Cheney Rumsfield Rice are nothing more than war criminals The press should be in an uproar. By their silence they are complicit. How can we point a finger at any other world leaders like Chavez or Castro or any other countries like Iran when the criminal acts and plans of our own leaders make them all look like amateurs and we THE AMERICAN PEOPLE let them get away with their crimes in OR NAMES! I like to believe our American president is accountable for his poor leadership. I don't personally fault Mr. Rumsfeld he was ordered into a diffucult situation and was scrutinized meticulously for his fauts. With respect to the president it is time to change course in Iraq and Afghanistan. I respect the counsel of the American people in unity with the US Congress. Please donot vote for Hillary Clinton,the only candidate who is a remarkable leader is Bill Richardson. Someone wrote somewhere on the web that we have been Bush/Clinton/Bush-and possibly Clinton again. "NO WAY! I heard Bill R comment on television that He was confounded by the presidents address to the United Nations Assembly. He said. "I wish he wouldn't use that tone of speech" referring to Mr. Bush- I heard that and immediately I knew he made a fair and balanced assessment. John McCain is my 2nd choice because he is a passionate articulate leader in the senate and among the American people. Say NO to all other candidates! This just confirms what I believed all along. The war was based on a lie and there is so much evidence; overwhelming evidence that shows that; the press is now complicit by not asking the hard and honest questions and keeping the focus on the truth. They seem to be enjoying the " glamour" of the war. All the big names in the media made their " on location war apparences" and the truth was smothered. I am still very angry about this war. I am a Registered Republican. I spent 13 year in the US ARMY. ( I got out in 2000 ) and I'm glad that I did not because I'm afraid to go to war. I was in full support of going to Afganistan and looking for Bin Laden. But when we started the Iraq talk the stink smell of that idea was very evident to me. I have lost all respect for BUSH,CHENEY( never had respect for him) POWELL. RICE and the entire Rupblican party. I will not be voting for any republicans anytime in the next few decades. This war is imorality of the the higest degree deceit of the lowest form the most extreme for of wickedness known to man; taking a nation hostage and using a tragedy to advance their own personal greedy egotistical agenda by sacrificing the lives of the Nation's young brave and strong. SHAME ! SHAME! SHAME ! I am very angry about this...... Rumsfeld is a great American Patriot and saved the USA from many attacks. The DemoLibs are tinfoil hatted morons that want to shoot the messenger (you) and ignore the threats posed by our enemies. THANK YOU for your service Mr. Rumsfeld. I don't like it that Bush turned out to be a big spender and I hate that Bush should be impeached for refusing to protect our borders and enforce our immigration laws - but you were "The Great Protector" of our nation. My fellow Americans look around your work places. Do you see moral pleasent and lead by example leaders? I certainly do not. I see those who speak the harshest point out others faults to elevate their own makeing it up the laddres of "leadership". Our expectation of leadership has succesfully molded with our image of Holywood icons and "heros". My friends are correct in stating several times here that the majority have become sheep. Levels of education makes no difference. It's power power and more power achieved in any possible way. Watch those who lead and listen carefuly. You will hear retoric huge assumptions some implementation of fear and similar tactics used in advertising and salesmenships. Be your own person think for yourselves amke your own decisions based on FACTS. Go vote. Dirty and rotten to the core. How can these evil men sleep at night? I cannot wait for this travesty to catch up with these absolute dregs of the earth. These who wrap themselves in the flag and keep saluting at these fine republicans who served for their country such as:* Dick Cheney: did not serve. Several deferments the last by marriage.* Dennis Hastert: did not serve.* Tom Delay: did not serve.* Bill Frist: did not serve.* Mitch McConnell: did not serve.* Rick Santorum: did not serve.* Trent Lott: did not serve.* John Ashcroft: did not serve. Seven deferments to teach business.* Jeb Bush: did not serve.* Karl Rove: did not serve.* Saxby Chambliss: did not serve. "Bad knee." The man who attacked Max Cleland's patriotism.* Paul Wolfowitz: did not serve.* Richard Perle: did not serve.* Douglas Feith: did not serve.* Eliot Abrams: did not serve.* Richard Shelby: did not serve.* Jon Kyl: did not serve.* Tim Hutchison: did not serve.* Christopher Cox: did not serve.* Newt Gingrich: did not serve.* Don Rumsfeld: served in Navy (1954-57) as flight instructor.* George W. Bush: failed to complete his six-year National Guard; got assigned to Alabama so he could campaign for family friend running for U. S. Senate; failed to show up for required medical exam disappeared from duty.* B-1 Bob Dornan: Consciously enlisted after fighting was over in Korea.* Phil Gramm: did not serve. Real patriots huh? The very few on here trying against all odds to support the criminally corrupt losers we have are truly brainwashed and must not read or think much. The list of DEMOCRATS who served in the military and still active or in office now is quite impressive when looking at the list of republican DID NOT SERVE presented correctly above. That the MAINSCREAM media failed us so badly as they fawned their sappy pleas for access and tidbits thrown out the backdoor at 1600 PENN.. Then we get the critiques of ORWELLS 1984 which means the truth of his story now appears quite self-evident now. It should surprise nobody here on this post that the ABC network went on-air during the ronnie rayguns era around 1984 to say how wrong ORWELL was in 1984. I think he only missed by a few years and the ABC network is on-air telling you he was wrong. Case Closed.... NEXT Only one good thing has come out of the GWB administration - the fact that there will never be another Bush or Bush relative in the WH. I believe in a fair just loving God - one that could not be so cruel as to ever allow a Bush curse to happen to us again. GWB and his band of madmen have made the mentality of some of the people in our beautiful country as bad as the ones we are fighting. His "compassionate conservative" rhetoric in the 2000 primary was all BS. Rumsfeld is the one who on TV declared that his IRANIAN INFORMANT of the Iranian government who gave him reliable information on IRAQ WMDs in the first place. Our INTELLIGENCE at that time kept telling the white house they cannot trust that source. But Rumsfeld said that he trusted his IRANIAN SOURCE in the news and in news conferences. REMEMBER! No matter what our INTELLIGENCE people told Bush he pushed forward into Iraq anyway trusting Rumsfelds judgement. Fastforward now we are tied up in Iraq and it is IRAN who is making threats in their statements against the U. S and Israel and claiming that they the Iranian government are a NEUCLEAR POWER. It seems that Rumsfeld and Bush got SUCKERED. And now we are tied up in Iraq both financially and militarily while Iran is the country with the real destructive WMD. RON PAUL IS THE NEW WAYYou get the sense that our country is desperate for someone to show us the way. Not the old way. Not the same way but a NEW WAY. Think about this for a minute. What if we pulled all of our troops out of South Korea? They've been there for 50+ years. What if we quit worrying about Iran but instead realized that its having a nuclear weapon will not mean the end of the world? What if we pulled all of our troops out of the Middle-East and brought them all home? What if we realistically addressed the National Debt and paid attention to REALLY DOING SOMETHING about stopping illegal immigration? These are the ideas of Republican Presidential candidate. Dr. Ron Paul. He's a ten term Congressman and a physician who has delivered over 4,000 babies. He's an intellectual who's published four books three of which are devoted entirely to sound economics. He was raised on a dairy farm in Pennsylvania as a pious Lutheran but now he attends a Baptist church. Paul is given to mulling things over morally. Whenever he recollects the helicopter pilots he treated as an Air Force Flight Surgeon (Captain) during the Vietnam War a war which he now says was "totally unnecessary and illegal," he laments. "They were gung-ho. I’ve often thought about how many of those people never came back." Candidates with the high level of personal integrity and proven track record of adherance to The Constitution. Congressman Paul has always demonstrated only come around once in a lifetime if we're lucky.

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"Keep elevating the threat" Rumsfeld wrote in a memo after a meeting with military analysts last year as the press and public sentiment over the Iraq war grew more critical in the months before his ouster. "Talk about Somalia the Philippines etc. Make sure the American people realize they are surrounded in the world by violent extremists." The memos were known in the Pentagon as "snowflakes" because they descended so prolifically from Rumsfeld's third-floor office. Rumsfeld once the youngest Defense Secretary under Gerald Ford maintained his energy as the oldest secretary under President Bush firing off 20 to 60 such memos a day from his standing desk where he worked without a chair. Some are quite pointed as is to be expected when coming from a man once named one of America's toughest bosses by Fortune magazine. A former senior Pentagon official likes to tell the story of the time Rumsfeld scolded an assistant for some perceived error then dictated a memo explaining what she'd done wrong -- and asked her to type it and deliver it. To herself. and you’ll find that manyenterprising reporters came across them –- and it was always considereda coup. As a Los Angeles Times Pentagon correspondent. I rememberreporting on a snowflake in which Rumsfeld asked acting Army SecretaryLes Brownlee and Army Chief of Staff Gen. Peter J. Schoomaker whetherthe Army could do shorter rotations. "I would be interested to hear from you as to why you think you shouldkeep doing 12-month rotations and if you were to change to 6. 7. 8 or9 months how you would do it and what would be the pros and cons." Some were more controversial then others. In one snowflake memo hequestioned the Muslim work ethic noting that the Middle East’s vastoil reserves often insulated Arabs from manual labor. “Too often Muslims are against physical labor so they bring in Koreansand Pakistanis while their young people remain unemployed," he wrote."An unemployed population is easy to recruit to radicalism.” Anyone who's ever been the target of Rumsfeld's tart attacks on mediareports knows he often took on individual reporters. I still remembergetting a call one morning from a friend who urged me to turn on thetelevision. Many reporters felt the secretary’s ire. In one memo last year Rumsfeldwrote "We need to prepare a response to this piece by Clarence Page,"of The Chicago Tribune. This is what it is all about! It is playing games with other peoples lives when no need exists. Our leaders are culpable. We send them to Washington to work for us and they work for THEM! They spend the money of the poor to benefit the rich and the murder kids who are 18 and 19 of pure lies. I know how that feels as I was a victim of a lie that started Vietnam. 58,219 kids died there for absolutely nothing just as they die today in Iraq! Bush needs to be impeached along with his narcasstic appointees. Any Republican part of that shame needs to be shown the door at election time. We need a country For the People not against them! Too few benefit at the expense of the many. That is not how it was suppose to be. That is not the way it should be. Run them out of office. They are all liars and thieves! If it were any other time America would be calling for the indictment of these foul and immoral people. Bush Cheney Rumsfield Rice are nothing more than war criminals The press should be in an uproar. By their silence they are complicit. How can we point a finger at any other world leaders like Chavez or Castro or any other countries like Iran when the criminal acts and plans of our own leaders make them all look like amateurs and we THE AMERICAN PEOPLE let them get away with their crimes in OR NAMES! I like to believe our American president is accountable for his poor leadership. I don't personally fault Mr. Rumsfeld he was ordered into a diffucult situation and was scrutinized meticulously for his fauts. With respect to the president it is time to change course in Iraq and Afghanistan. I respect the counsel of the American people in unity with the US Congress. Please donot vote for Hillary Clinton,the only candidate who is a remarkable leader is Bill Richardson. Someone wrote somewhere on the web that we have been Bush/Clinton/Bush-and possibly Clinton again. "NO WAY! I heard Bill R comment on television that He was confounded by the presidents address to the United Nations Assembly. He said. "I wish he wouldn't use that tone of speech" referring to Mr. Bush- I heard that and immediately I knew he made a fair and balanced assessment. John McCain is my 2nd choice because he is a passionate articulate leader in the senate and among the American people. Say NO to all other candidates! This just confirms what I believed all along. The war was based on a lie and there is so much evidence; overwhelming evidence that shows that; the press is now complicit by not asking the hard and honest questions and keeping the focus on the truth. They seem to be enjoying the " glamour" of the war. All the big names in the media made their " on location war apparences" and the truth was smothered. I am still very angry about this war. I am a Registered Republican. I spent 13 year in the US ARMY. ( I got out in 2000 ) and I'm glad that I did not because I'm afraid to go to war. I was in full support of going to Afganistan and looking for Bin Laden. But when we started the Iraq talk the stink smell of that idea was very evident to me. I have lost all respect for BUSH,CHENEY( never had respect for him) POWELL. RICE and the entire Rupblican party. I will not be voting for any republicans anytime in the next few decades. This war is imorality of the the higest degree deceit of the lowest form the most extreme for of wickedness known to man; taking a nation hostage and using a tragedy to advance their own personal greedy egotistical agenda by sacrificing the lives of the Nation's young brave and strong. SHAME ! SHAME! SHAME ! I am very angry about this...... Rumsfeld is a great American Patriot and saved the USA from many attacks. The DemoLibs are tinfoil hatted morons that want to shoot the messenger (you) and ignore the threats posed by our enemies. THANK YOU for your service Mr. Rumsfeld. I don't like it that Bush turned out to be a big spender and I hate that Bush should be impeached for refusing to protect our borders and enforce our immigration laws - but you were "The Great Protector" of our nation. My fellow Americans look around your work places. Do you see moral pleasent and lead by example leaders? I certainly do not. I see those who speak the harshest point out others faults to elevate their own makeing it up the laddres of "leadership". Our expectation of leadership has succesfully molded with our image of Holywood icons and "heros". My friends are correct in stating several times here that the majority have become sheep. Levels of education makes no difference. It's power power and more power achieved in any possible way. Watch those who lead and listen carefuly. You will hear retoric huge assumptions some implementation of fear and similar tactics used in advertising and salesmenships. Be your own person think for yourselves amke your own decisions based on FACTS. Go vote. Dirty and rotten to the core. How can these evil men sleep at night? I cannot wait for this travesty to catch up with these absolute dregs of the earth. These who wrap themselves in the flag and keep saluting at these fine republicans who served for their country such as:* Dick Cheney: did not serve. Several deferments the last by marriage.* Dennis Hastert: did not serve.* Tom Delay: did not serve.* Bill Frist: did not serve.* Mitch McConnell: did not serve.* Rick Santorum: did not serve.* Trent Lott: did not serve.* John Ashcroft: did not serve. Seven deferments to teach business.* Jeb Bush: did not serve.* Karl Rove: did not serve.* Saxby Chambliss: did not serve. "Bad knee." The man who attacked Max Cleland's patriotism.* Paul Wolfowitz: did not serve.* Richard Perle: did not serve.* Douglas Feith: did not serve.* Eliot Abrams: did not serve.* Richard Shelby: did not serve.* Jon Kyl: did not serve.* Tim Hutchison: did not serve.* Christopher Cox: did not serve.* Newt Gingrich: did not serve.* Don Rumsfeld: served in Navy (1954-57) as flight instructor.* George W. Bush: failed to complete his six-year National Guard; got assigned to Alabama so he could campaign for family friend running for U. S. Senate; failed to show up for required medical exam disappeared from duty.* B-1 Bob Dornan: Consciously enlisted after fighting was over in Korea.* Phil Gramm: did not serve. Real patriots huh? The very few on here trying against all odds to support the criminally corrupt losers we have are truly brainwashed and must not read or think much. The list of DEMOCRATS who served in the military and still active or in office now is quite impressive when looking at the list of republican DID NOT SERVE presented correctly above. That the MAINSCREAM media failed us so badly as they fawned their sappy pleas for access and tidbits thrown out the backdoor at 1600 PENN.. Then we get the critiques of ORWELLS 1984 which means the truth of his story now appears quite self-evident now. It should surprise nobody here on this post that the ABC network went on-air during the ronnie rayguns era around 1984 to say how wrong ORWELL was in 1984. I think he only missed by a few years and the ABC network is on-air telling you he was wrong. Case Closed.... NEXT Only one good thing has come out of the GWB administration - the fact that there will never be another Bush or Bush relative in the WH. I believe in a fair just loving God - one that could not be so cruel as to ever allow a Bush curse to happen to us again. GWB and his band of madmen have made the mentality of some of the people in our beautiful country as bad as the ones we are fighting. His "compassionate conservative" rhetoric in the 2000 primary was all BS. Rumsfeld is the one who on TV declared that his IRANIAN INFORMANT of the Iranian government who gave him reliable information on IRAQ WMDs in the first place. Our INTELLIGENCE at that time kept telling the white house they cannot trust that source. But Rumsfeld said that he trusted his IRANIAN SOURCE in the news and in news conferences. REMEMBER! No matter what our INTELLIGENCE people told Bush he pushed forward into Iraq anyway trusting Rumsfelds judgement. Fastforward now we are tied up in Iraq and it is IRAN who is making threats in their statements against the U. S and Israel and claiming that they the Iranian government are a NEUCLEAR POWER. It seems that Rumsfeld and Bush got SUCKERED. And now we are tied up in Iraq both financially and militarily while Iran is the country with the real destructive WMD. RON PAUL IS THE NEW WAYYou get the sense that our country is desperate for someone to show us the way. Not the old way. Not the same way but a NEW WAY. Think about this for a minute. What if we pulled all of our troops out of South Korea? They've been there for 50+ years. What if we quit worrying about Iran but instead realized that its having a nuclear weapon will not mean the end of the world? What if we pulled all of our troops out of the Middle-East and brought them all home? What if we realistically addressed the National Debt and paid attention to REALLY DOING SOMETHING about stopping illegal immigration? These are the ideas of Republican Presidential candidate. Dr. Ron Paul. He's a ten term Congressman and a physician who has delivered over 4,000 babies. He's an intellectual who's published four books three of which are devoted entirely to sound economics. He was raised on a dairy farm in Pennsylvania as a pious Lutheran but now he attends a Baptist church. Paul is given to mulling things over morally. Whenever he recollects the helicopter pilots he treated as an Air Force Flight Surgeon (Captain) during the Vietnam War a war which he now says was "totally unnecessary and illegal," he laments. "They were gung-ho. I’ve often thought about how many of those people never came back." Candidates with the high level of personal integrity and proven track record of adherance to The Constitution. Congressman Paul has always demonstrated only come around once in a lifetime if we're lucky.

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"Keep elevating the threat" Rumsfeld wrote in a memo after a meeting with military analysts last year as the press and public sentiment over the Iraq war grew more critical in the months before his ouster. "Talk about Somalia the Philippines etc. Make sure the American people realize they are surrounded in the world by violent extremists." The memos were known in the Pentagon as "snowflakes" because they descended so prolifically from Rumsfeld's third-floor office. Rumsfeld once the youngest Defense Secretary under Gerald Ford maintained his energy as the oldest secretary under President Bush firing off 20 to 60 such memos a day from his standing desk where he worked without a chair. Some are quite pointed as is to be expected when coming from a man once named one of America's toughest bosses by Fortune magazine. A former senior Pentagon official likes to tell the story of the time Rumsfeld scolded an assistant for some perceived error then dictated a memo explaining what she'd done wrong -- and asked her to type it and deliver it. To herself. and you’ll find that manyenterprising reporters came across them –- and it was always considereda coup. As a Los Angeles Times Pentagon correspondent. I rememberreporting on a snowflake in which Rumsfeld asked acting Army SecretaryLes Brownlee and Army Chief of Staff Gen. Peter J. Schoomaker whetherthe Army could do shorter rotations. "I would be interested to hear from you as to why you think you shouldkeep doing 12-month rotations and if you were to change to 6. 7. 8 or9 months how you would do it and what would be the pros and cons." Some were more controversial then others. In one snowflake memo hequestioned the Muslim work ethic noting that the Middle East’s vastoil reserves often insulated Arabs from manual labor. “Too often Muslims are against physical labor so they bring in Koreansand Pakistanis while their young people remain unemployed," he wrote."An unemployed population is easy to recruit to radicalism.” Anyone who's ever been the target of Rumsfeld's tart attacks on mediareports knows he often took on individual reporters. I still remembergetting a call one morning from a friend who urged me to turn on thetelevision. Many reporters felt the secretary’s ire. In one memo last year Rumsfeldwrote "We need to prepare a response to this piece by Clarence Page,"of The Chicago Tribune. This is what it is all about! It is playing games with other peoples lives when no need exists. Our leaders are culpable. We send them to Washington to work for us and they work for THEM! They spend the money of the poor to benefit the rich and the murder kids who are 18 and 19 of pure lies. I know how that feels as I was a victim of a lie that started Vietnam. 58,219 kids died there for absolutely nothing just as they die today in Iraq! Bush needs to be impeached along with his narcasstic appointees. Any Republican part of that shame needs to be shown the door at election time. We need a country For the People not against them! Too few benefit at the expense of the many. That is not how it was suppose to be. That is not the way it should be. Run them out of office. They are all liars and thieves! If it were any other time America would be calling for the indictment of these foul and immoral people. Bush Cheney Rumsfield Rice are nothing more than war criminals The press should be in an uproar. By their silence they are complicit. How can we point a finger at any other world leaders like Chavez or Castro or any other countries like Iran when the criminal acts and plans of our own leaders make them all look like amateurs and we THE AMERICAN PEOPLE let them get away with their crimes in OR NAMES! I like to believe our American president is accountable for his poor leadership. I don't personally fault Mr. Rumsfeld he was ordered into a diffucult situation and was scrutinized meticulously for his fauts. With respect to the president it is time to change course in Iraq and Afghanistan. I respect the counsel of the American people in unity with the US Congress. Please donot vote for Hillary Clinton,the only candidate who is a remarkable leader is Bill Richardson. Someone wrote somewhere on the web that we have been Bush/Clinton/Bush-and possibly Clinton again. "NO WAY! I heard Bill R comment on television that He was confounded by the presidents address to the United Nations Assembly. He said. "I wish he wouldn't use that tone of speech" referring to Mr. Bush- I heard that and immediately I knew he made a fair and balanced assessment. John McCain is my 2nd choice because he is a passionate articulate leader in the senate and among the American people. Say NO to all other candidates! This just confirms what I believed all along. The war was based on a lie and there is so much evidence; overwhelming evidence that shows that; the press is now complicit by not asking the hard and honest questions and keeping the focus on the truth. They seem to be enjoying the " glamour" of the war. All the big names in the media made their " on location war apparences" and the truth was smothered. I am still very angry about this war. I am a Registered Republican. I spent 13 year in the US ARMY. ( I got out in 2000 ) and I'm glad that I did not because I'm afraid to go to war. I was in full support of going to Afganistan and looking for Bin Laden. But when we started the Iraq talk the stink smell of that idea was very evident to me. I have lost all respect for BUSH,CHENEY( never had respect for him) POWELL. RICE and the entire Rupblican party. I will not be voting for any republicans anytime in the next few decades. This war is imorality of the the higest degree deceit of the lowest form the most extreme for of wickedness known to man; taking a nation hostage and using a tragedy to advance their own personal greedy egotistical agenda by sacrificing the lives of the Nation's young brave and strong. SHAME ! SHAME! SHAME ! I am very angry about this...... Rumsfeld is a great American Patriot and saved the USA from many attacks. The DemoLibs are tinfoil hatted morons that want to shoot the messenger (you) and ignore the threats posed by our enemies. THANK YOU for your service Mr. Rumsfeld. I don't like it that Bush turned out to be a big spender and I hate that Bush should be impeached for refusing to protect our borders and enforce our immigration laws - but you were "The Great Protector" of our nation. My fellow Americans look around your work places. Do you see moral pleasent and lead by example leaders? I certainly do not. I see those who speak the harshest point out others faults to elevate their own makeing it up the laddres of "leadership". Our expectation of leadership has succesfully molded with our image of Holywood icons and "heros". My friends are correct in stating several times here that the majority have become sheep. Levels of education makes no difference. It's power power and more power achieved in any possible way. Watch those who lead and listen carefuly. You will hear retoric huge assumptions some implementation of fear and similar tactics used in advertising and salesmenships. Be your own person think for yourselves amke your own decisions based on FACTS. Go vote. Dirty and rotten to the core. How can these evil men sleep at night? I cannot wait for this travesty to catch up with these absolute dregs of the earth. These who wrap themselves in the flag and keep saluting at these fine republicans who served for their country such as:* Dick Cheney: did not serve. Several deferments the last by marriage.* Dennis Hastert: did not serve.* Tom Delay: did not serve.* Bill Frist: did not serve.* Mitch McConnell: did not serve.* Rick Santorum: did not serve.* Trent Lott: did not serve.* John Ashcroft: did not serve. Seven deferments to teach business.* Jeb Bush: did not serve.* Karl Rove: did not serve.* Saxby Chambliss: did not serve. "Bad knee." The man who attacked Max Cleland's patriotism.* Paul Wolfowitz: did not serve.* Richard Perle: did not serve.* Douglas Feith: did not serve.* Eliot Abrams: did not serve.* Richard Shelby: did not serve.* Jon Kyl: did not serve.* Tim Hutchison: did not serve.* Christopher Cox: did not serve.* Newt Gingrich: did not serve.* Don Rumsfeld: served in Navy (1954-57) as flight instructor.* George W. Bush: failed to complete his six-year National Guard; got assigned to Alabama so he could campaign for family friend running for U. S. Senate; failed to show up for required medical exam disappeared from duty.* B-1 Bob Dornan: Consciously enlisted after fighting was over in Korea.* Phil Gramm: did not serve. Real patriots huh? The very few on here trying against all odds to support the criminally corrupt losers we have are truly brainwashed and must not read or think much. The list of DEMOCRATS who served in the military and still active or in office now is quite impressive when looking at the list of republican DID NOT SERVE presented correctly above. That the MAINSCREAM media failed us so badly as they fawned their sappy pleas for access and tidbits thrown out the backdoor at 1600 PENN.. Then we get the critiques of ORWELLS 1984 which means the truth of his story now appears quite self-evident now. It should surprise nobody here on this post that the ABC network went on-air during the ronnie rayguns era around 1984 to say how wrong ORWELL was in 1984. I think he only missed by a few years and the ABC network is on-air telling you he was wrong. Case Closed.... NEXT Only one good thing has come out of the GWB administration - the fact that there will never be another Bush or Bush relative in the WH. I believe in a fair just loving God - one that could not be so cruel as to ever allow a Bush curse to happen to us again. GWB and his band of madmen have made the mentality of some of the people in our beautiful country as bad as the ones we are fighting. His "compassionate conservative" rhetoric in the 2000 primary was all BS. Rumsfeld is the one who on TV declared that his IRANIAN INFORMANT of the Iranian government who gave him reliable information on IRAQ WMDs in the first place. Our INTELLIGENCE at that time kept telling the white house they cannot trust that source. But Rumsfeld said that he trusted his IRANIAN SOURCE in the news and in news conferences. REMEMBER! No matter what our INTELLIGENCE people told Bush he pushed forward into Iraq anyway trusting Rumsfelds judgement. Fastforward now we are tied up in Iraq and it is IRAN who is making threats in their statements against the U. S and Israel and claiming that they the Iranian government are a NEUCLEAR POWER. It seems that Rumsfeld and Bush got SUCKERED. And now we are tied up in Iraq both financially and militarily while Iran is the country with the real destructive WMD. RON PAUL IS THE NEW WAYYou get the sense that our country is desperate for someone to show us the way. Not the old way. Not the same way but a NEW WAY. Think about this for a minute. What if we pulled all of our troops out of South Korea? They've been there for 50+ years. What if we quit worrying about Iran but instead realized that its having a nuclear weapon will not mean the end of the world? What if we pulled all of our troops out of the Middle-East and brought them all home? What if we realistically addressed the National Debt and paid attention to REALLY DOING SOMETHING about stopping illegal immigration? These are the ideas of Republican Presidential candidate. Dr. Ron Paul. He's a ten term Congressman and a physician who has delivered over 4,000 babies. He's an intellectual who's published four books three of which are devoted entirely to sound economics. He was raised on a dairy farm in Pennsylvania as a pious Lutheran but now he attends a Baptist church. Paul is given to mulling things over morally. Whenever he recollects the helicopter pilots he treated as an Air Force Flight Surgeon (Captain) during the Vietnam War a war which he now says was "totally unnecessary and illegal," he laments. "They were gung-ho. I’ve often thought about how many of those people never came back." Candidates with the high level of personal integrity and proven track record of adherance to The Constitution. Congressman Paul has always demonstrated only come around once in a lifetime if we're lucky.

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"Keep elevating the threat" Rumsfeld wrote in a memo after a meeting with military analysts last year as the press and public sentiment over the Iraq war grew more critical in the months before his ouster. "Talk about Somalia the Philippines etc. Make sure the American people realize they are surrounded in the world by violent extremists." The memos were known in the Pentagon as "snowflakes" because they descended so prolifically from Rumsfeld's third-floor office. Rumsfeld once the youngest Defense Secretary under Gerald Ford maintained his energy as the oldest secretary under President Bush firing off 20 to 60 such memos a day from his standing desk where he worked without a chair. Some are quite pointed as is to be expected when coming from a man once named one of America's toughest bosses by Fortune magazine. A former senior Pentagon official likes to tell the story of the time Rumsfeld scolded an assistant for some perceived error then dictated a memo explaining what she'd done wrong -- and asked her to type it and deliver it. To herself. and you’ll find that manyenterprising reporters came across them –- and it was always considereda coup. As a Los Angeles Times Pentagon correspondent. I rememberreporting on a snowflake in which Rumsfeld asked acting Army SecretaryLes Brownlee and Army Chief of Staff Gen. Peter J. Schoomaker whetherthe Army could do shorter rotations. "I would be interested to hear from you as to why you think you shouldkeep doing 12-month rotations and if you were to change to 6. 7. 8 or9 months how you would do it and what would be the pros and cons." Some were more controversial then others. In one snowflake memo hequestioned the Muslim work ethic noting that the Middle East’s vastoil reserves often insulated Arabs from manual labor. “Too often Muslims are against physical labor so they bring in Koreansand Pakistanis while their young people remain unemployed," he wrote."An unemployed population is easy to recruit to radicalism.” Anyone who's ever been the target of Rumsfeld's tart attacks on mediareports knows he often took on individual reporters. I still remembergetting a call one morning from a friend who urged me to turn on thetelevision. Many reporters felt the secretary’s ire. In one memo last year Rumsfeldwrote "We need to prepare a response to this piece by Clarence Page,"of The Chicago Tribune. This is what it is all about! It is playing games with other peoples lives when no need exists. Our leaders are culpable. We send them to Washington to work for us and they work for THEM! They spend the money of the poor to benefit the rich and the murder kids who are 18 and 19 of pure lies. I know how that feels as I was a victim of a lie that started Vietnam. 58,219 kids died there for absolutely nothing just as they die today in Iraq! Bush needs to be impeached along with his narcasstic appointees. Any Republican part of that shame needs to be shown the door at election time. We need a country For the People not against them! Too few benefit at the expense of the many. That is not how it was suppose to be. That is not the way it should be. Run them out of office. They are all liars and thieves! If it were any other time America would be calling for the indictment of these foul and immoral people. Bush Cheney Rumsfield Rice are nothing more than war criminals The press should be in an uproar. By their silence they are complicit. How can we point a finger at any other world leaders like Chavez or Castro or any other countries like Iran when the criminal acts and plans of our own leaders make them all look like amateurs and we THE AMERICAN PEOPLE let them get away with their crimes in OR NAMES! I like to believe our American president is accountable for his poor leadership. I don't personally fault Mr. Rumsfeld he was ordered into a diffucult situation and was scrutinized meticulously for his fauts. With respect to the president it is time to change course in Iraq and Afghanistan. I respect the counsel of the American people in unity with the US Congress. Please donot vote for Hillary Clinton,the only candidate who is a remarkable leader is Bill Richardson. Someone wrote somewhere on the web that we have been Bush/Clinton/Bush-and possibly Clinton again. "NO WAY! I heard Bill R comment on television that He was confounded by the presidents address to the United Nations Assembly. He said. "I wish he wouldn't use that tone of speech" referring to Mr. Bush- I heard that and immediately I knew he made a fair and balanced assessment. John McCain is my 2nd choice because he is a passionate articulate leader in the senate and among the American people. Say NO to all other candidates! This just confirms what I believed all along. The war was based on a lie and there is so much evidence; overwhelming evidence that shows that; the press is now complicit by not asking the hard and honest questions and keeping the focus on the truth. They seem to be enjoying the " glamour" of the war. All the big names in the media made their " on location war apparences" and the truth was smothered. I am still very angry about this war. I am a Registered Republican. I spent 13 year in the US ARMY. ( I got out in 2000 ) and I'm glad that I did not because I'm afraid to go to war. I was in full support of going to Afganistan and looking for Bin Laden. But when we started the Iraq talk the stink smell of that idea was very evident to me. I have lost all respect for BUSH,CHENEY( never had respect for him) POWELL. RICE and the entire Rupblican party. I will not be voting for any republicans anytime in the next few decades. This war is imorality of the the higest degree deceit of the lowest form the most extreme for of wickedness known to man; taking a nation hostage and using a tragedy to advance their own personal greedy egotistical agenda by sacrificing the lives of the Nation's young brave and strong. SHAME ! SHAME! SHAME ! I am very angry about this...... Rumsfeld is a great American Patriot and saved the USA from many attacks. The DemoLibs are tinfoil hatted morons that want to shoot the messenger (you) and ignore the threats posed by our enemies. THANK YOU for your service Mr. Rumsfeld. I don't like it that Bush turned out to be a big spender and I hate that Bush should be impeached for refusing to protect our borders and enforce our immigration laws - but you were "The Great Protector" of our nation. My fellow Americans look around your work places. Do you see moral pleasent and lead by example leaders? I certainly do not. I see those who speak the harshest point out others faults to elevate their own makeing it up the laddres of "leadership". Our expectation of leadership has succesfully molded with our image of Holywood icons and "heros". My friends are correct in stating several times here that the majority have become sheep. Levels of education makes no difference. It's power power and more power achieved in any possible way. Watch those who lead and listen carefuly. You will hear retoric huge assumptions some implementation of fear and similar tactics used in advertising and salesmenships. Be your own person think for yourselves amke your own decisions based on FACTS. Go vote. Dirty and rotten to the core. How can these evil men sleep at night? I cannot wait for this travesty to catch up with these absolute dregs of the earth. These who wrap themselves in the flag and keep saluting at these fine republicans who served for their country such as:* Dick Cheney: did not serve. Several deferments the last by marriage.* Dennis Hastert: did not serve.* Tom Delay: did not serve.* Bill Frist: did not serve.* Mitch McConnell: did not serve.* Rick Santorum: did not serve.* Trent Lott: did not serve.* John Ashcroft: did not serve. Seven deferments to teach business.* Jeb Bush: did not serve.* Karl Rove: did not serve.* Saxby Chambliss: did not serve. "Bad knee." The man who attacked Max Cleland's patriotism.* Paul Wolfowitz: did not serve.* Richard Perle: did not serve.* Douglas Feith: did not serve.* Eliot Abrams: did not serve.* Richard Shelby: did not serve.* Jon Kyl: did not serve.* Tim Hutchison: did not serve.* Christopher Cox: did not serve.* Newt Gingrich: did not serve.* Don Rumsfeld: served in Navy (1954-57) as flight instructor.* George W. Bush: failed to complete his six-year National Guard; got assigned to Alabama so he could campaign for family friend running for U. S. Senate; failed to show up for required medical exam disappeared from duty.* B-1 Bob Dornan: Consciously enlisted after fighting was over in Korea.* Phil Gramm: did not serve. Real patriots huh? The very few on here trying against all odds to support the criminally corrupt losers we have are truly brainwashed and must not read or think much. The list of DEMOCRATS who served in the military and still active or in office now is quite impressive when looking at the list of republican DID NOT SERVE presented correctly above. That the MAINSCREAM media failed us so badly as they fawned their sappy pleas for access and tidbits thrown out the backdoor at 1600 PENN.. Then we get the critiques of ORWELLS 1984 which means the truth of his story now appears quite self-evident now. It should surprise nobody here on this post that the ABC network went on-air during the ronnie rayguns era around 1984 to say how wrong ORWELL was in 1984. I think he only missed by a few years and the ABC network is on-air telling you he was wrong. Case Closed.... NEXT Only one good thing has come out of the GWB administration - the fact that there will never be another Bush or Bush relative in the WH. I believe in a fair just loving God - one that could not be so cruel as to ever allow a Bush curse to happen to us again. GWB and his band of madmen have made the mentality of some of the people in our beautiful country as bad as the ones we are fighting. His "compassionate conservative" rhetoric in the 2000 primary was all BS. Rumsfeld is the one who on TV declared that his IRANIAN INFORMANT of the Iranian government who gave him reliable information on IRAQ WMDs in the first place. Our INTELLIGENCE at that time kept telling the white house they cannot trust that source. But Rumsfeld said that he trusted his IRANIAN SOURCE in the news and in news conferences. REMEMBER! No matter what our INTELLIGENCE people told Bush he pushed forward into Iraq anyway trusting Rumsfelds judgement. Fastforward now we are tied up in Iraq and it is IRAN who is making threats in their statements against the U. S and Israel and claiming that they the Iranian government are a NEUCLEAR POWER. It seems that Rumsfeld and Bush got SUCKERED. And now we are tied up in Iraq both financially and militarily while Iran is the country with the real destructive WMD. RON PAUL IS THE NEW WAYYou get the sense that our country is desperate for someone to show us the way. Not the old way. Not the same way but a NEW WAY. Think about this for a minute. What if we pulled all of our troops out of South Korea? They've been there for 50+ years. What if we quit worrying about Iran but instead realized that its having a nuclear weapon will not mean the end of the world? What if we pulled all of our troops out of the Middle-East and brought them all home? What if we realistically addressed the National Debt and paid attention to REALLY DOING SOMETHING about stopping illegal immigration? These are the ideas of Republican Presidential candidate. Dr. Ron Paul. He's a ten term Congressman and a physician who has delivered over 4,000 babies. He's an intellectual who's published four books three of which are devoted entirely to sound economics. He was raised on a dairy farm in Pennsylvania as a pious Lutheran but now he attends a Baptist church. Paul is given to mulling things over morally. Whenever he recollects the helicopter pilots he treated as an Air Force Flight Surgeon (Captain) during the Vietnam War a war which he now says was "totally unnecessary and illegal," he laments. "They were gung-ho. I’ve often thought about how many of those people never came back." Candidates with the high level of personal integrity and proven track record of adherance to The Constitution. Congressman Paul has always demonstrated only come around once in a lifetime if we're lucky.

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By my local China time it is now the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month. This is November 11 which means variously. Remembrance Day. Armistice Day or Poppy Day among countries on the Allied side of World War I and of course Veterans' Day in the United States. Originally this was a moment for looking backwards to honor those who had served in the Great War and mourn those who had died. Its retrospective purpose remains. But for Americans right now it should also be a moment to recognise the men and women who continue to serve and sacrifice and be injured and die -- and to reflect on the fact that for the first time in our modern history they do so with absolutely no shared free or service from the public at large. Everyone knows this and avoids thinking much about it. Today it's worth at least remembering. Also it is worth looking at several articles the Atlantic has and made available free for now. They're about Vietnam not Iraq or Afghanistan (or Iran) but several are significant in their own right in addition to shedding indirect lighten on our current and continuing wars. Let me emphasize two: James C. Thomson Jr.'s "" might seem somewhat obvious in its analysis now. But when it came out -- weeks after the Tet offensive in 1968 days before Lyndon Johnson announced that he would not run for re-election -- it was electrifying in its originality and insight. Thomson who had been raised in China by missionary parents was then in his mid-30s and had recently left the government in opposition to the war policy. He was a a brand-new and very popular college professor when I met him as a student around this measure. In a sense all journalistic and even historical attempts to explain foreign policy failures flow from the come he took in this bind. William Broyles's "" was a very early and excellent specimen of what eventually became a large body of "veteran returns to Vietnam" literature and reportage. Broyles (a good friend of mine -- I had been a writer for Texas Monthly in the 1970s when he was the editor) was about 40 years old when he did this article. He had just left the editorship of Newsweek and begun his career as a book- and screen-writer. This article led to his book Again if any of the themes he lays out now seem familiar it is because this article set the tone for a lot of subsequent literature about return-to-Vietnam and reconciliation with Vietnam -- as did Broyles's later TV show. One of my own articles in this collection brought back something I had utterly forgotten: that I had had a friendly and productive interview with Donald Rumsfeld... fourteen years ago. His comments then are interesting now in light of what has happened since. As are the comments at that time of David Halberstam and William Broyles and William F. Buckley and the man who is now a Democratic senator from Virginia. Jim Webb.

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Former US Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld fled France today fearing arrest over charges of “ordering and authorizing” torture of detainees at both the American-run Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq and the US military’s detainment facility at Guantanamo Bay. Cuba unconfirmed reports coming from Paris suggest. US embassy officials whisked Rumsfeld away yesterday from a breakfast meeting in Paris organized by the Foreign Policy magazine after human rights groups filed a criminal complaint against the man who spearheaded President George W. Bush’s “war on terror” for six years. Under international law authorities in France are obliged to open an investigation when a complaint is made while the alleged torturer is on French soil. According to activists in France who greeted Rumsfeld shouting “murderer” and “war criminal” at the breakfast meeting venue. US embassy officials remained tight-lipped about the former defense secretary’s whereabouts citing “security reasons”. Anti-torture protesters in France accept that the defense secretary fled over the open border to Germany where a war crimes case against Rumsfeld was dismissed by a federal court. But activist inform out that under the Schengen agreement that ended adjoin checkpoints across a large move of the European Union. cut law enforcement agents are allowed to cross the border into Germany in pursuit of a fleeing fugitive. “Rumsfeld must be feeling how Saddam Hussein entangle when US forces were hunting him down,” activist Tanguy Richard said. “He may never end up being hanged desire his old friend but he must learn that in the civilized world war crime doesn’t pay.” International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) along with the bear on for Constitutional Rights (CCR) the European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights (ECCHR) and the cut League for Human Rights (LDH) filed the complaint on Thursday after learning that Rumsfeld was scheduled to tour Paris. XHTML: You can use these tags: <a href="" title=""> <abbr title=""> <acronym title=""> <b> <blockquote have in mind=""> <code> <em> <i> <strike> <strong> This website contains some copyrighted material that has not been specifically authorised by the write alter owner. RINF is making such material available in our efforts to advance public understanding of poverty alleviation political economy popular democracy and social justice issues both in Scotland and overseas. We believe this constitutes a 'fair use' of any such copyrighted material provided under US Copyright Law.

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On Friday while former Defense Sec. Donald Rumsfeld was visiting France human rights groups based there and in the United States charging him with approving anguish: Rumsfeld is accused of authorizing anguish at Guantánamo Bay. Cuba and at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq. The French complaint accuses Mr. Rumsfeld of authorizing torture at Guantánamo Bay. Cuba and at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq and says it violated the Convention Against anguish which came into force in 1987. As move of their complaint the groups submitted 11 pages of written testimony from Janis Karpinski the highest-ranking officer to be punished in the Abu Ghraib prison scandal. She was demoted to colonel from brigadier general and lost command of her military police unit. She contended that the abuses at the prison had started after the appearance of Maj. Gen. Geoffrey Miller who was sent by Mr. Rumsfeld to assist military intelligence interrogators. French prosecutors were said to have the power to pursue the case while Rumsfeld was in the country. One source that Rumsfeld was abruptly whisked away from a eat meeting on Friday in request to avoid his clutch: U. S embassy officials whisked Rumsfeld away yesterday from a breakfast meeting in Paris organized by the Foreign Policy magazine after human rights groups filed a criminal complaint against the man who spearheaded President George W. Bush’s “war on terror” for six years. Under international law authorities in France are obliged to open an investigation when a complaint is made while the alleged torturer is on cut soil. The report said Rumsfeld fled to Germany because similar charges were dismissed against him there in the spring. The German court ruled that Rumsfeld’s criminality was an internal be for the United States. Is it not clear that the rule of law applies to some people but not to others? Where Rumsfeld had the cater to put people in prison without due process of law when he is the affect of a complaint himself he flees the country like a common criminal. What are you talking about? How does the actions of Rumsfeld reflect on United States morals? Also since when does the United States claim moral superiority? Also your argument fails to muster basic logic. Rumsfeld’s decision to get (assuming the article above is generally accurate - to which I am skeptical) would only evidence that he feels he is indeed subject to the authority of France to charge him with violations.

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The Commission to evaluate United States National Security lay Management and Organization frequently called the Rumsfeld Space Commission or simply the Space Commission was established in 1999 by an amendment to the Fiscal Year 2000 Defense Authorization account. The commission is perhaps most well known for suggesting that unless the United States took threats of space contend seriously it could not avoid a "Space Pearl Harbor." Sen. Bob Smith (R-NH) was the point-person in Congress for creating the Space equip. Explaining the motivation for the equip's creation. Smith told a (CSP) forum only days before the commission released its inform: "The annual [Defense Department] budgets repeatedly shortchange lay programs. ... People without space background are promoted ahead of lay officers and treaties undergo negotiated away our lay favor" (CSP. January 9. 2001). At the measure. Smith was one of more than a dozen congressional representatives who sat on CSP's advisory come in. chaired the Space Commission which released its report on January 11. 2001. Rumsfeld served on the equip until December 28. 2000—the date George W. Bush nominated him as defense secretary. Rumsfeld's cater director for the commission was who later became the first-ever undersecretary of defense for intelligence in March 2003 and who was also staff director of the a congressionally mandated commission that Rumsfeld chaired in 1998. The Space Commission is often referred to as the back up Rumsfeld Commission. desire the first commission the lay equip echoed the alarmism about national security threats propagated by right-wing groups such as the CSP. The equip concluded that it is "possible to communicate power through and from lay in response to events anywhere in the world. ... Having this capability would furnish the United States a much stronger deterrent and in a conflict an extraordinary military advantage." The commission argued in Orwellian style that because the United States is without peer among "space-faring" nations the country is all the more vulnerable to "state and non-state actors hostile to the United States and its interests." In other words. U. S enemies would seek to undo the U. S economy together with its ability to fight high-tech wars by attacking global-positioning satellites and other "lay assets," which would effectively result in a "Space collect experience" (inform of the Rumsfeld lay Commission. Executive Summary pp vii-viii). "We know from history that every medium—air land and sea—has seen contrast. Reality indicates that space ordain be no different. Given this virtual certainty the United States must create the means both to disapprove and to defend against hostile acts in and from space" (inform of the Rumsfeld Space equip. Executive Summary p x). The 13 members of the commission include several space weapons enthusiasts military hardliners and military-industrial complex insiders. Indeed the commission embodied what William Hartung and Michelle Ciarrocca of World Policy initiate label the "military-industrial-think-tank complex," and of the 13 commissioners at least eight were consultants or board members for high-tech Pentagon contractors (see "Axis of Influence," World Policy Institute. July 2002). Six commissioners were retired flag officers including Gen who served on the boards of directors of several firms that collectively received more than $900 million in contracts in 2002. When Rumsfeld became Bush's defense secretary. Fogleman together with fellow lay Commission members Gen and Adm were tapped to answer on the Pentagon's Defense Policy come in. Examples of the representation from right-wing think tanks on the commission consider three members of the CSP advisory board: Horner former Republican Sen of Wyoming (who was a senior fellow) and the military-industrial insider. The was represented by two change state associates. Jeremiah and Lt. Gen. Other right-wing evaluate tanks whose associates were on the commission included the and Frontiers of Freedom. Commenting on the two Rumsfeld commissions. Theresa Hitchens vice president of the Center for Defense Information said they were "move of the same tradition as some of " due to their strategy of undermining official threat assessments. Summarizing the Rumsfeld commissions' results. Hitchens said: "One of the striking things about the reports from both commissions was that threats were no longer being assessed on the basis of what people were currently capable of doing or capable of doing in the come future but of what they could potentially be capable of. And there was no thought about intent. You know a threat is defined as being based on capabilities intent and ability to apply. The measure two have been thrown out the window and the first one is totally perverted by both these commissions. And I sight that to be totally weird. This choose of paranoia thing.. is wacky because then everything can be a threat" (Flynn interview. June 12. 2003).

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Former US Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld's jaunt to France was interrupted today by an unscheduled itinerary item -- he was slapped with a criminal complaint charging him with anguish. Rumsfeld in Paris for a discussion sponsored by the magazine Foreign Policy was tracked down by representatives of a coalition of international human rights groups who informed the architect of the US invasion of Iraq that they had submitted a torture conform to against him in French court. The filed documents assert that during his advance the former defense secretary "ordered and authorized" torture of detainees at both the American-run Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq and the US military's detainment facility at Guantanamo Bay. Cuba. The head of one of the groups responsible for bringing the charges the US-based told today by phone that the conform to was a long measure coming. "We've been working on cornering Rumsfeld and getting him indicted somewhere going on three years now," said the Center's president. Michael Ratner. "Four days ago we got confidential information he was going to be in France." Joined by activists attorneys for the human rights groups caught up with Rumsfeld on his way to a breakfast meeting. "He was walking drink the street with just one person," said Ratner. "Around 20 campaigners gave Rumsfeld a rowdy welcome.. yelling 'murderer,' waving a banner and trying to push into the building," reports AFP. Ratner who wasn't personally at the scene says his sources told him that the former defense secretary made some pre-scheduled remarks at the meeting before ducking through a door leading to the US Embassy. "If a torturer comes into your territory," he said. "there's an obligation to either act the person or go him to a displace where he ordain be prosecuted." The rights groups notably cite three memorandums signed by the defense secretary between October 2002 and April 2003 "legimitizing the use of torture" including the "hooding" of detainees sleep deprivation and the use of dogs. Although his group has been a part of previous attempts to bring charges against Rumsfeld including two former tries in Germany. Ratner believes French court has the highest chance of success. "There are Guantananamo detainees who were tortured that are living in France," he said. "It gives French courts another reason to act." Other groups involved in the complaint include the International Federation of Human Rights the cut League for Human Rights and Germany's European bear on for Constitutional and Human Rights.

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Just before switching servers I posted for worry of being charged with the crime of anguish. At the measure of that affix the information was somewhat sketchy and I hedged a bit fearing that the report was too good to be true but that has changed. Charges were in fact filed against Rumsfeld for ““. The complaint was filed by a non-profit US human rights law tighten the bear on for Constitutional Rights with ““. Le Monde provides a bit more detail about the complaint and about the particular tortures Rumsfeld is accused of authorizing. Le texte de la plainte dont Le Monde a pris connaissance mentionne les abus commis contre des détenus sur la base américaine de Guantanamo. à Cuba et dans la prison d’Abou Ghraib en Irak ainsi que plusieurs mémorandums autorisant des méthodes “musclées” d’interrogatoire que Donald Rumsfeld avait writeés en 2002 et 2003 alors qu’il était secrétaire à la défense (il a démissionné en novembre 2006). Ces mémorandums ont ouvert la voie aux techniques de privation de sommeil longues stations debout exposition à des températures extrêmes utilisation de chiens humiliations sexuelles etc. utilisées à Guantanamo et à Abou Ghraib. M. Rumsfeld a “autorisé et ordonné” des “crimes de tortures” dont certains sont “constitutifs de crimes de guerre” affirme la plainte. I have a challenge. Jeanne: if they somehow don’t open the prosecution and he leaves do they comfort have an obligation to open the prosecution even after he’s gone? JEANNE SULZER: In theory there is because what you be is when the complaint is being filed that the person the alleged person is show on the territory and he was when the complaint was filed. So yes but they could of course say that now that he is not present on the territory anymore there is no jurisdiction. But yes they should — actually the investigation should be opened now. If he escapes today there is still basis for the French jurisdiction. In addition having resigned from his lay of U. S. Secretary of Defense a year ago. Rumsfeld can no longer try to claim immunity as a head of state or government official. Nor can he affirm immunity as former state official as international law does not recognize such immunity in the case of international crimes including the crime of torture. Should the Senate give its advice and react to ratification of the Convention. I plan at the measure of deposit of United States ratification to alter a declaration pursuant to Article 28 that the United States does not recognize the competence of the Committee against Torture under Article 20 to make confidential investigations of charges that torture is being systematically practiced in the United States. In addition. I intend not to alter declarations pursuant to Articles 21 and 22 of the Convention recognizing the competence of the Committee against Torture to receive and consider communications from States and individuals alleging that the United States is violating the Convention. I accept that a final United States decision as to whether to accept such competence of the Committee should be withheld until we have had an opportunity to assess the Committee’s work. It would be possible for the United States in the future to accept the competence of the Committee pursuant to Articles 20. 21 and 22 should undergo with the Committee prove satisfactory and should the United States believe this step desirable. The. Ronnie agreed to participate as long as no one accuses the US of anguish or maybe he just agreed to cooperate as convenient. It is nice that everyone else has to behave but we don’t. It makes you wonder what grounds we have for whining about the things the bad old terrorists do.

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Jeff Dufour and Patrick Gavin cover people cater and politics in the beltway. be to mention? Got a juicy tip? to cater the dirt chew the fat and wag the tongue. One of the biggest criticisms of the Bush Administration's decision to wage war in Iraq -- and the leadership of then Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld specifically -- is that the U. S failed to fully consider the country's political climate and the potential for sustained violence following the invasion. Yeas & Nays has obtained a walk arrive at at an interview with Rumsfeld conducted by GQ's Lisa DePaulo which ordain appear in the October air of GQ (the special 50th Anniversary air appears on newsstands nationally September 25). It is Rumsfeld's first extensive converse since leaving the Pentagon in November 2006. Rumsfeld says that before the war. "I sat drink and handwrote fifteen twenty twenty-five things that could be.. could go do by could be real problems... I wrote down all of the things that could be problems: That we wouldn't find weapons of crowd destruction. That there'd be a Fortress Baghdad and a lot of people would be killed. All of this... I read it in a National Security Council meeting. Then I went approve to my office--I had handwritten it--and I dictated it and added four or five things. And I evaluate there's probably thirty items on it. And then I sent it around to each of the members of the National Security Council to the president and the vice president. So that all of them had in their heads the things that were dfficult problematic worrisome dangerous."When DePaulo asks Rumsfeld how the memo was received by President furnish he responds: "Um..." A pause. He is carefully choosing his words. "I think it was.. appreciated by the president that I took the measure to do that." "Yeah. I thought he construe it. Yeah." Although Rumsfeld is quick to praise his former impress ("He believes that someday he'll be vindicated. He believes he's a lot more intelligent and curious than people furnish him ascribe for.") he also confesses that the two haven't spoken since Rumsfeld's resignation. DePaulo asks Rumsfeld if he misses President furnish. "Um no," Rumsfeld replies. (But he also doesn't desire former Secretary of express Colin Powell: "No! We're not close. Never were.") Rumsfeld also thinks that might still be at the Pentagon had the Republicans won the 2006 midterm elections: A month and a half after our tour. Reuters would end the story that Rumsfeld gave his final (and apparently third) resignation earn to the president the day before the midterm elections though furnish chose not to announce it until the day after infuriating many Republicans who entangle the election could have been won if Rummy had been sacrificed first. In Taos. I asked him if he considered resigning before the elections. "Uhhh no," he replied. "But it was very alter in my object that if the Democrats won the House or the Senate or both that it made sense for me to.. that it would be best for the department if someone else was there."

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The parts of the article that ordain alter the news involve his relationship with President Bush. Do you miss him? "Um no." Still desire him? "I do." Are you still change state to Colin Powell? "No! We're not close. Never were." And the vice president? "I comfort see Cheney." He believes Bush will be vindicated someday much as Harry Truman and Ronald Reagan became over time appreciated for their strengths and national security accomplishments. He's not got much time for the "eastern media" that deals in political caricatures day in and day out. Sure he has regrets. "You'd always wish things were perfect but they never are. The enemy has a hit. And the enemy watches what our folks do and they adjust to it and.. the fact that we were not able to get a division in through Turkey at the outset meant that the Saddamists today's insurgents had free compete for a good period of time." And he tells some revealing heart-wrenching stories the kind of stories. DePaulo writes. "that people who despise Donald Rumsfeld might be surprised to comprehend." But they're off the record because "I don't desire to talk about myself." If you denote correctly he was the man in rush when that communist country - whose health care system you love so much - became a non-communist country. Because of your socialist proclivities you just might not think that is a good thing. Those of us who have hated communism all our lives think otherwise. And. I might add the end of communism in Europe came on his watch in no small measure because of his resolve to peacefully undo it at its weakest point - its ability to compete with capitalism. That is what I call good leadership. John W.. I agree with you process your measure lie. How does Bush not believe in the American Dream and blessings of liberty. Whether you agree with his tactics or not or with the Iraq War or not what he has done is because he believes in the American Dream and liberty. You correctly boast about Reagan fighting and defeating communism yet you knock furnish for fighting against Islamic extremism and dictatorship. While I don't completely agree with furnish's lay on immigration his belief is to allow immigrants the opportunity to apply the American conceive of whether it's through legal means or not. furnish cut taxes so folks can keep more of their money and do with it as they desire which is move of the American Dream and liberty. You could say the Patriot Act and some of the decisions regarding terrorist incarceration are not examples of liberty and you may have a point. In that regard though. Bush has pushed keeping us safe compared to liberties for noncitizens or those conspiring with terrorists. That is a allow consider and as Tony loves to note one in which at the moment I have been on the side of keeping us safe rather than providing liberties to terrorists or those working with them. In a different go. RomanB made glowing remarks about the health care his parents received in in a communist country. So it was not in compose to the socialized medicine in Western Europe. Unless his parents lived in Cuba or China he was referring to a communist state in Eastern Europe. In any event in 1989 events began which led to the unraveling of the communist regimes in Czechoslovakia. Poland. Hungary. Romania and East Germany. By the end of the following year their communist regimes were toast. The Soviet Union did not cease to exist until 1991. All the same. I rest by my original remark that the go of these communist regimes was due in no small move to their economic bankruptcy wrought by Reagan’s policies of competition. They couldn’t keep up with us in producing bullets and cover and so that had to alter a choice between the two. They chose butter. Hurray. BTW Tony our governmental debt now sits at nine (9) trillion dollars. We have piled up this debt largely between the mid 1960s and now. That we undergo this debt shows the government has been plagued by a chronic inability to exercise anything resembling fiscal restraint or responsibility. And you accept this same government can responsibly and successfully impel hundreds of billions of dollars more at a national health compassionate schedule? You are not playing in the realm of reality here. The Soviet Union "fell" as come up since when the Soviet government disolved the express broke up into smaller constituant parts such as Russia. Ukraine. Belarus etc. Therfore the central government based in Moscow lost the ability to govern large areas of what had been it's territory. As to Reagan's role in th change of communism there are many factors and individuals who had a heck of alot more to do with it than Reagan. First off and inarguably the most importantly you undergo the flawed policies of the Soviet Union itself. Gorbachov's willing ness to ameliorate and unwillingness to reign in the reforms when they started getting out of his control were massively important. Then you also have groups like KOR. Solidarity. Civic Forum and people desire Lech Walesa..

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This is emblematic of my frustration with the "Foreign Policy Community." Now. I don't have any doubts that Rumsfeld's undergo is something populate can learn from and I trust that students and colleagues of his ordain put it in the category of "what not to do," or maybe see it as textbook if you're into dismantling countries and constitutions.. but to me that's hardly the issue. evaluate tanks academic institutions etc will start picking up these Bushies for two reasons. First they get to call themselves bipartisan and therefore allow the "liberal bias on campus" argument to be seen as reasonable when it frankly isn't. We all know that campuses force populate to THINK which according to some conservatives means LIBERAL. back up they draw money from foundations and individual donors. Think tanks and universities are no different than law firms in this respect. They carry populate on to be rain makers. change surface liberal donors ordain pay to sit in a room and tell Don Rumsfeld what they evaluate about him. Here's the problem: neither one of these things prioritizes the substantive contributions of the individual. accept or disagree with their politics there are cases where this has been done alter: Lee Hamilton over at Woodrow Wilson Center is a hands on leader. So is John Hamre over at CSIS and Richard Haas at CFR. The list goes on of "formers" from both sides putting themselves in a different environment and working just as hard as they did in their old jobs. They apply the chance to forbid chasing the news of the day and focus instead on parts of the world and new trends being ignored and more importantly offering a come about for younger folks thinking about this stuff to have a paycheck while they do the heavy lifting and learn about the world they want to run one day. But be sure even these resumes are not lost on those making the decisions. But when "thinking writing and advising on important matters of public policy" is the beat you can do for a job description of someone who just recently served as the impress of America's largest hit employer--the Defense Department... I think we can all see clearly what is happening here. Expect it to come about more as populate start leaving and as evaluate tankers pile into the (hopefully) new Democratic Administration. A friend of mine once referred to think tanks as "IDP camps for the team out of power." As someone who's been there. I'd say that's about right (for the comfy confines of the Beltway anyway).. but those of us who've lived this life knew the difference between us and the Don Rumsfeld types---the "working hard" vs the "hardly working." "On the grounds of intellectual judgment and moral character he would seem to be a markedly inappropriate choice," Bernstein said. I'd say that he's about half right. Rumsfeld ought to be strung up for his moral failures but since he apparently won't be he does have a sharp intellect and so I evaluate that he needs to be heard from especially as he professes to be against "the war on terror". Also he has repeatedly talked about the threat of a new caliphate extending from Indonesia to Spain and this is a prophecy that needs to be addressed and hopefully dismissed. He goes to a university or evaluate tank he suffers the vilification above. He goes into the private sector he suffers vilification as being permanently-considered-but-conveniently-never-demonstrated corrupt and bringing government influence into the private sector. Some people undergo an say for everything. :( Me. I'm happy he's at Stanford. Let him speak and teach and write while other evaluate and consider.. the marketplace of ideas alter guys? Or do we liberals not accept in that anymore?

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According to Hoover Director John Raisian. Rumsfeld ordain answer on a assign force pertaining to national security ideology and terrorism in the aftermath of the Sept. 11. 2001 terrorist attacks. “I am pleased that he will spend time during the coming year in thinking writing and advising on important matters of public policy,” Raisian said in a statement. “I have asked Don to join the distinguished group of scholars that ordain pursue new insights on the direction of thinking that the United States might consider going send. I am delighted that he will act in the deliberations of our task compel.” Rumsfeld’s ties to Hoover the conservative-leaning think store are numerous. He has served as a member of the clean Board of Overseers and as a member of the executive committee of the board. It was not immediately alter when Rumsfeld would begin his new lay or how much time he would be spending on campus in the coming year. Sources undergo speculated that he would not have a significant public presence at the University and New York publishing houses were abuzz earlier this summer when Rumsfeld began preparations to write his memoirs. Also a former White House chief of staff. U. S ambassador to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) member of Congress and chief executive command of two Fortune 500 companies. Rumsfeld stepped drink as defense secretary in November 2006. During his six tumultuous years in the position he oversaw the nation’s response to the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks and the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. His resignation came immediately after the Democrats made significant gains in the 2006 Congressional midterm elections. Several prominent politicians and military officials had called for his ouster in the months prior to the election. While Stanford's at it why don't we arouse Rove and Cheney to be the directors of our Ethics in Society program? This is heartbreaking. Is the administration so blind to the outside world that it thinks this is a good idea? or change surface an acceptable idea? As a student. I would like to accept that Stanford's name stands for something but with announcements like this that is getting difficult to believe. This is not only bad for the integrity of the institution but also for its public relations. Are we now becoming the refuge for disgraced Republican officials? That's not what I signed up for. The students should stand up and let it be known that this is unacceptable. Why will there be anti-Americanism? Because of the actions and attitudes of Americans themselves sad to say. Instead of seeing themselves as others see them many ordain persist in looking at the world only through a nationalistic American lens and viewpoint so they'll reap antagonism instead of support. The U. S is the proudest nation on the approach of the Earth and in their experience they even wage war in the name of peace. They hold so much power in the world today due to their military might and financial cater and they are able to displace their agendas and get other countries to buy into them. But their pride and their arrogance irritate and anger many countries of the world and this war will bring about more and more division between the governments of the world. Money markets ordain act to change state more and more unstable. The wealth and riches of the U. S will be sapped by this war and the disbelieve of the rest of the world ordain bring about more and greater division in finances as well as in political matters. The economies will go now. They ordain come up for a few more gasps of air but this has been the fatal blow that will bring them down. There's still a little measure left in which the economies ordain float above the crisis but not for desire. They will be surfacing for gasps of air but then submerging again much as a drowning man who goes down longer and longer after each desperate gasp at the ascend until he surfaces no more. Ted Rudow III,MAPO Box 1222Menlo Park,CA 94026650-906-2168Why ordain there be anti-Americanism? Because of the actions and attitudes of Americans themselves sad to say. Instead of seeing themselves as others see them many will persist in looking at the world only through a nationalistic American lens and viewpoint so they'll collect antagonism instead of give. The U. S is the proudest nation on the face of the hide and in their experience they even wage war in the name of peace. They direct so much cater in the world today due to their military might and financial power and they are able to push their agendas and get other countries to buy into them. But their experience and their arrogance irritate and exasperate many countries of the world and this war ordain bring about more and more division between the governments of the world. Money markets ordain continue to become more and more unstable. The wealth and riches of the U. S ordain be sapped by this war and the distrust of the rest of the world will carry about more and greater division in finances as come up as in political matters. The economies ordain go now. They ordain go up for a few more gasps of air but this has been the fatal breathe out that will carry them drink. There's still a little time left in which the economies ordain go above the crisis but not for long. They will be surfacing for gasps of air but then submerging again much as a drowning man who goes drink longer and longer after each desperate blow at the surface until he surfaces no more. Ted Rudow III,MAPO Box 1222Menlo lay,CA 94026650-906-2168Why ordain there be anti-Americanism? Because of the actions and attitudes of Americans themselves sad to say. Instead of seeing themselves as others see them many ordain persist in looking at the world only through a nationalistic American lens and viewpoint so they'll reap antagonism instead of support. The U. S is the proudest nation on the face of the hide and in their pride they even contend war in the name of peace. They hold so much power in the world today due to their military might and financial power and they are able to push their agendas and get other countries to buy into them. But their pride and their arrogance displease and exasperate many countries of the world and this war ordain bring about more and more division between the governments of the world. Money markets ordain act to change state more and more unstable. The wealth and riches of the U. S ordain be sapped by this war and the distrust of the rest of the world will bring about more and greater division in finances as well as in political matters. The economies will fall now. They ordain go up for a few more gasps of air but this has been the fatal blow that will carry them down. There's still a little time left in which the economies will go above the crisis but not for long. They ordain be surfacing for gasps of air but then submerging again much as a drowning man who goes down longer and longer after each desperate blow at the surface until he surfaces no more. http://www.911forthetruth com/pdfs/Rodriguezvs. Bush%20 pdfDonald H Rumsfield has been named as a defendant in a faulty RICO Act lawsuit complied by the CIA. As a CIA enter the lawsuit is a valid accusation of the leadership of the American government in pushing an unconstitutional and criminal agenda against the ordain of the American people. One more false spook name one more CIA Post Office Box is added to the defendant list. PO Box 1222 Menlo Park,CA 94026 If the Stanford Daily is on the CIA's dead body list how many students at.

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