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The Rumsfeld Memo: “I was just about to change everything….Really!?!”
By now, everyone has heard about Rumsfeld’s memo. It was leaked to the New York Times supposedly without Rumsfeld’s knowledge. It makes the case that Rumsfeld was just about to make major changes in Iraq because he could see that the strategy wasfailing and hadcreateda disaster.
Everything about the memo reeks of deception. In fact, the Times even admits that, “Rumsfeld may have been trying to shape the coming discussion and present himself as open to ‘change’”.
Why?
Because, according to the article, “President Bush interviewed Texas A&M University President Robert Gates as a potential successor to Rumsfeld a day before the midterm elections.”
Do you think that Rummy, who controls 80% of the US
intelligence budget and listens in to the conversations of Quakers,
antiwar protestors, and other unsuspecting citizens knew that he was
going to be canned?
You bet he did. And now he’s rewriting history to cast himself as a
flexible andopen-minded military leader who could change course when
the situation warranted. It’s just another way of patching together a
legacy before tottering off into retirement.
Nothing Rumsfeld says can be trusted. He spies on Americans’ phone
calls, computers, medical records, bank records and groups. He has been
a stanch supporter of planting propaganda in newspapers and TV. He
introduced a program that created a “rapid response” team to rebut
information that is critical of US foreign policy appearing on blogs,
web-sites and letters to the editor. He controlled the flow of
information coming out of Iraq and managed to silence many of the war’s
critics. He developed a plan for “Total Information Awareness” that is
designed to control everything that the public sees and hears from
cradle to grave.
Now he is trying to write his own legacy. It is just another in a long
list of deceptions; a smokescreen created to conceal his responsibility
in the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people.
The memo states that Rumsfeld was planning to make major adjustments
and that “Clearly, what US forces are currently doing in Iraq is not
working well enough or fast enough”. But “what US forces were doing”
was exactly what Rumsfeld told them to do; nothing more, nothing less.
When he told them to bomb Falluja to the ground, they followed his
orders; and when they tortured and stacked naked prisoners on top of
each other, they followed his orders. And, when they trained the Shiite
death squads to kill and maim Sunni suspects, they followed his orders.
Every major decision in 4 years of conflict bears Rumsfeld’s
imprimatur. It’s his policy; it’s his war. If Rumsfeld continued as
Secretary of Defense, then nothing would change, because he has
absolute confidence in violence and deception as the two main
instruments for political transformation.
Rumsfeld’s memo is great reading for fiction-lovers. It provides a
revealing snapshot of a leader who carefully considered every
alternative before making a decision. It’s a stark contrast to the
intractable narcissist who ignored his advisors and bullied his
generals. But, like I said, it’s great fiction.
Excerpt: “Announce that no matter whatever new approach the US decides
on, the US is doing on a ‘trial basis’. This will give us the ability
to readjust and move to another course, and therefore not ‘lose’”.
In other words, keep moving the goalposts while people die and the public will never catch on.
That's a whole newtake on cynicism.
Rumsfeld has enjoyed his 6-year tenure as Sec-Def. He probably thought
it would never end. Now what he needs is a good biographer, like Bob
Woodward, who can invent a story about his exploits fighting “radical
Islam’s” attack on the “land of the free and the home of the brave”. No
doubt, there’ll be a photo of the square-jawed Rummy plastered atop the
muscled torso of Favio staving off the swarthy Middle Eastern males’
with his trusty DOD-issue scimitar.
‘nuff said.
The memo is just more gibberish; the empty dissembling of a con-man
trying to hoodwink the public before scuttling off into political
oblivion.
Writings 
By now, everyone has heard about Rumsfeld’s memo. It was leaked to the New York Times supposedly without Rumsfeld’s knowledge. It makes the case that Rumsfeld was just about to make major changes in Iraq because he could see that the strategy wasfailing and hadcreateda disaster. 
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