Saturday, September 16, 2006
Secretary Rumsfeld
If you are someone concerned with the state of American commentary today you have much to be concerned about.
You have Don Rumsfeld, the most incompetent and dishonest Secretary if Defense in history, pissing on democrats and calling them terrorist “appeasers” while R. Emmett Tyrrell II of CNN and his clones in the media call them “ignoramuses” and insist that the Secretary never, in his speech, compared them to appeasers of Hitler before WWII.
R. Emmett Tyrrell II, or Thurston Howell IV, or whatever the fuck his name is seems to be counting on the fact that his pig-ignorant audience can’t spend 30 seconds googling Rumsfeld’s speech to see for themselves. Indeed, if you actually read Rumsfeld’s speech you see a lot more there than comparing democrats to Neville Chamberlain.
He attacks the news coverage of the war, Newsweek, CNN, and Amnesty International, in that order.
First of all let me say this: if you ever see a politician attacking Amnesty International you can be pretty sure you’re looking at a war criminal. If you ever hear some lunatic excoriating Mother Theresa or Bono or Human Rights Watch you can be pretty sure you’re looking at a criminal.
Rumsfeld resorts to familiar lines in his defense. The people responsible for the 600 documented cases of abuse and torture at Gitmo, Abu Ghraib, and Baghram are “a very, very small percentage of the literally hundreds of thousands of honorable men and women in all theaters in this struggle who are serving our country with humanity, with decency, with professionalism, and with courage in the face of continuous provocation,” of course. We just have a lot of “bad apples.”
As nefarious sources like Amnesty International have pointed out, the number of documented cases pales in comparison with the number of actual cases. Several thousand prisoners, many of whom have been tortured, are being held in third-world prisons without charges under the direction of the CIA and the State Department. When the final accounting of Don Rumsfeld’s crimes are done he will look at lot closer to Adolf Hitler than to Winston Churchill.
Don is waging a one-man war on the media, as usual. He asserted that, during Israel’s offensive in Lebanon, these enemies “doctor photographs of casualties. They use civilians as human shields. And then they try to provoke an outcry when civilians are killed in their midst, which of course was their intent.”
See? You can’t trust news accounts of the Israeli offensive. The photographs of dismembered Lebanese children are “doctored.” The civilians murdered by Israeli strikes were all “human shields” for terrorists, no matter what you hear anyone else say.
It is a disgrace to our nation to have a Secretary of Defense like this, one who urinates on the graves of Lebanese civilian victims of Israeli aggression, who compares war critics to Nazi appeasers, and who receives the support of syndicated columnists who are featured in every major news outlet in the country.
# posted by BitterHarvest @ 12:20 PM 
