Hey, I didn’t say that you weren’t worth mocking.

:ka-click: I dedicate this banning to Donald Rumsfeld. I am frankly envious of the way you infuriate your enemies, Mister Secretary. May you do so for years to come.

Blam.

Moe Lane

If they want to get their panties in a wad, along with people like you, just wait and see how well it’s going to go if Obama is elected and he institutes his National Security Force right here at home. You want to complain about tyranny? You ain’t seen nothing yet, bucko.

I thought about rebutting your spew point by point until two thoughts occurred to me:

1) I don’t have that much time as I have a real job at which I’m supposed to actually be a productive human being; and,

2) Frankly, you’re just not worth the effort (it’s that pearls before swine thing)

Incidentally, as a Rumsfeld “sycophant” I think you could at least get a few facts straight before you troll against him. Once Obama loses, we will start to deduct points for errors.

The decision to ask Rumsfeld to resign was easy for the White House. After all, Rumsfeld’s resignation had been sought, since America’s illegal invasion and occupation of Iraq, by many groups, including military officers within his own Pentagon, for not developing a ‘winning’ strategy. His policies have been dubbed variedly as being authoritarian, failed, insane, unrealistic, stupid, criminal, businesslike, quagmire and fiasco.

Always defensive and combative, Rumsfeld was tunnel-visioned in his approach to the neocon-orchestrated war against the Muslim world (which he liked to package as Islamofascism); behaving more like an old dog that did not like to learn new tricks. In spite of mounting pressure from the Congress to sack him, Bush had kept him in his job, hoping for miracles in Iraq and thus, the 2006 election. But with the humiliating defeats in both the houses, the honeymoon was over. So, the man who was the architect of the first war of the 21st century became its first big casualty.

As one of the primary architects of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, Rumsfeld will always be remembered alongside Bush and Cheney for the scandals of Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo that epitomized inhumanity, savagery, bigotry, perversion and sadism. He authorized the use of torture and brutal, evil and shameful treatment that violated the Geneva Conventions, and thus constitute war crimes. He refused to treat his Muslim prisoners as POWs. He put them in cage and moved them around naked. He approved interrogation techniques that included the use of dogs, removal of clothing, hooding, stress positions, isolation for up to 30 days, 20-hour per day interrogations, forcing to wear women’s underwear on head, denying bathroom access and deprivation of food, sleep and rest. He approved the use of physical coercion and sexual humiliation to extract information from prisoners. He also authorized water-boarding (which constitutes torture), where the interrogator induces the sensation of imminent death by drowning.

In the Muslim world, Rumsfeld (alongside Bush & Cheney) will long be remembered as another Hulagu Khan that killed, plundered and looted Baghdad, destroying the very city that was once the citadel of Muslim learning.

Like Robert McNamara of the Vietnam era, Rumsfeld is equally remorseless for the deaths of 655,000 Iraqis. He describes the Iraq war as a “little-understood, unfamiliar war”.
As has been pointed out lately by Marjorie Cohn of Thomas Jefferson School of Law, President of National Lawyers Guild, prosecuting a war of aggression isn’t Rumsfeld’s only crime. He also participated in the highest levels of decision-making that allowed the extrajudicial execution of several people. [Chain of Command: The Road from 9/11 to Abu Ghraib by Seymour Hersh] Willful killing is a grave breach of the Geneva Conventions, which constitutes a war crime. To elaborate further, Marjorie Cohn writes, “Even though Rumsfeld didn’t personally carry out the torture and mistreatment of prisoners, he authorized it. Under the doctrine of command responsibility, a commander can be liable for war crimes committed by his inferiors if he knew or should have known they would be committed and did nothing to stop of prevent them. The U.S. War Crimes Act provides for prosecution of a person who commits war crimes and prescribes life imprisonment, or even the death penalty if the victim dies.” [Jurist – Forum: Donald Rumsfeld: The War Crimes Case, Nov. ‘06]

War crime is a serious matter. Many legal experts and human rights activists are of the opinion that the warlords of our world need to be tried for their crimes against humanity. A few years ago, therefore, there were cases filed in the European courts against some war criminals, including Ariel Sharon of Israel for the massacre of Palestinians in Sabra and Chatilla refugee camps in Lebanon, and Jenine in the Occupied Palestine. Fearing their imminent arrest if they had stepped onto European soil, some of the Israeli generals did not disembark from their planes and returned to Israel.

Last Tuesday (11/14/06), emboldened by Rumsfeld’s resignation last week, German and American lawyers asked a German prosecutor to investigate Rumsfeld on allegations of war crimes, stemming from the treatment of prisoners held in military jails in Iraq and Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. The 220-page lawsuit, filed with the German federal prosecutor in Karlsruhe, names 11 other current and former American officials, including Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, whom it claims either ordered the torture of prisoners or drafted laws that legitimated its use. The suit, filed by civil-rights legal groups on behalf of 12 detainees – 11 Iraqis and a Saudi – asserts that they were subjected to beatings, sleep deprivation, withholding of food, and sexual humiliation.

The whirlwind is coming.

Your selfless commitment to country may rub off on a few of us.

And, might I add… Very impressive AE.

I thank you for your love of our country and the work you did in her behalf, I believe the world is a better place due to the work of men like you.

God bless

ATG

And thank you for your many years of service to our country. They are still appreciated.

ps: I agree wholeheartedly with the comment by janis, above.

Rummy at RedState!

pursue the core principles that I have found useful over the pasty fifty years: strength in foreign and defense policy, freedom of opportunity for all Americans, a commitment to free markets and free trade, and a disciplined approach to government spending to allow for lower taxes and greater prosperity.

is well founded (and frequently practiced here. Keep up the good fight, my brother, and so will we.

1. We have a mutual friend, who of course is a Director at this site and who works for you.

2. We are both from Chicago.

3. We are both fans of Doug Feith; I had the chance to speak with him upon the release of his book and ask him a number of questions and came away very impressed with his intelligence, his command of the issues and his dedication to the country.

Many thanks for your post here at RedState. I hope that it is not the last, but rather the first of many. Thank you for your service to the country which will have significant and positive reverberations for decades to come.

And thank you for your long and excellent service to our country!

Encountering you at Red State this morning has made my day. I have missed you on the national scene and look forward to hearing more from you. I am completing Douglas Feith’s history of the war. It reminds me gain how much we owe to you and the value of your leadership.

John Terry
Germantown, TN

Thank you, sir, for all that you have done for this country.

Thank you so much for making my day by coming and posting on Redstate.