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The DOD's press service announced that former SecDef Rumsfeld was honored last Friday with a ceremonial portrait that will hang in the halls of the Pentagon, warning all future SecDefs about the dangers of arrogance and hubris. Okay, I made that last part up. But I couldn't help a slight reflex gag as a bit of vomit threatened to back up into my mouth as I read SecDef Gate's praise of his predecessor.

Both of his official portraits will hang in the Pentagon. The newest, painted by Steven Polson and unveiled today, shows Rumsfeld at his stand-up desk with a picture of first-responders and soldiers unfurling the flag over the still-burning Pentagon on Sept. 12, 2001.

The unveiling ceremony was a veritable who’s who. Former defense secretaries William Cohen and Frank Carlucci attended. Retired Air Force Gen. Richard B. Myers and retired Marine Gen. Peter Pace – who served as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff alongside Rumsfeld - were there with their wives. Former deputy secretaries Paul Wolfowitz and Gordon England, retired Air Force Gen. Joe Ralston, retired Navy Adm. Vern Clark, retired Navy Adm. Ed Giambastiani, former senior Pentagon correspondent Charlie Aldinger, and many more friends attended the event.

As one wise old man once said, "You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy." I'll spare you my usual angy, spitting diatribe about how Rumsfeld ruined the Army's force structure, wripped apart its modernization efforts, fed its troops into the sausage machine we lovingly call "Operation Iraqi Freedom," and kept yammering about how the WMDs were "over there, north, south, west, somewhere in Iraq." History will define what a villain this man was, and make an example of his insanely poor dictatorship of US defense efforts.

But I do take exception with the poor research of Jim Garamone, writing for the American Forces Press Service. The photo of the Army soldiers and workers unfurling an American flag against the side of the Pentagon was not taken on September 12, 2001. It was unfurled in a ceremony on October 11, 2001 (see the photo in the Wiki site). I know that because I was there in the bleachers along with a few thousand others, trying to understand what just happened a month ago. I was there on September 12, 2001, also. They were still a little busy that day, searching for bodies and putting out fires, to be unfurling huge flags on the sides of the Pentagon. The failure of this DOD news service to catch this error really kind of pisses me off.

But no, we have to smile fake smiles and pretend that we honor this jackass, this "honorable man," because of the "heroic" efforts he undertook after terrorists hit the Pentagon. Enough said. I'm wasting time on this ass and I have better things to do. "The evil that men do lives after them, The good is oft interred with their bones, So let it be with Caesar."

UPDATE: I can be a real asshole sometimes. Let me apologize to Jim Garamone for failing to do the necessary research on the photo in the Rumsfeld portrait. Had I spent a few minutes more on this post, I would have found out that, yeah, they did hang the flag on Sep 12, 2001. My irrational anger at Rumsfeld blinded me to this obvious point.

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ronnie dobbs's picture

and i would prefer a mug shot.

Karyn's picture

Yeah, I like that.

bigironal's picture

gutless ,draft dodging maggot ever decides to get stupider than usual and goes out of the country he will be arrested at the fisrt country he lands in so I look at his life style as more or less a prisoner within the USA and if he leaves the country he will be put in jail as a war criminal!Heck of a job.......RUMMY!

Peter G's picture

It was, as the English say, wripping.


Hasa Diga Eebowai

Milquetoast's picture

audit-prosecute-incarcerate

Geronimo.'s picture

"Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people." ~ Eleanor Roosevelt

Winski's picture

EXPENSIVE kindling... The mug shot IS a better idea....

pissed off patricia's picture

Just look at it as a new dart board for the halls of the Pentagon. I imagine the canvas would make it too rough for toilet tissue.


Say what you mean. Mean what you say. But don't say it mean.

Karyn's picture

THAT'S a good one too.

Nangleator's picture

Already a place of honor in arms manufacturer's annual reports. With the caption, "Cha-Ching!!"

ron's picture

just hang the picture of him and Saddam shaking hands after they closed the deal on poisonous gases to be used on the Kurds and Iran.

Geronimo.'s picture

"Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people." ~ Eleanor Roosevelt

BigD145's picture

Yes.

MedfordTim's picture

..."Hanging is too good for him"? I'm sure they were talking about a portrait...

Pete Seattle's picture

"six days, six weeks, I doubt six months"

I find it entirely unsurprising that the Pentagon is honoring Donald '666' Rumsfailed.

ron's picture

A PICTURE OF THE PLANE THAT FLEW INTO THE PENTAGON. Oh that's right, there wasn't any.

Geronimo.'s picture

Donald Rumsfeld starring in a clip of some of the lies.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EYI7JXGqd0o


"Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people." ~ Eleanor Roosevelt

Amitola's picture

It is only fitting that Rummy should be posed next to a depiction of his greatest coup.

All of those Bushistas should be incarcerated for crimes against humanity!!


"Egotism is the anesthetic that dulls the pain of Stupidity" - Frank Leahy

pjmurphy's picture

Vir Cotto to Morden: - "I'd like to live just long enough to be there when they cut off your head and stick it on a pike as a warning to the next ten generations that some favors come with too high a price. I would look up at your lifeless eyes and wave like this."
[gives a mockingly cheerful finger waggle]

Nangleator's picture

Awesome reference. Applies to Rove, too.

Geronimo.'s picture

Donald Rumsfeld would have figured out who sent the Anthrax to U.S. Lawmakers and media figureheads. That would be a good one.


"Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people." ~ Eleanor Roosevelt

Milquetoast's picture

...on "the unknowns"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sq5mQLArjmo

I think the Anthrax attacks fall into the category of "known unknowns"


audit-prosecute-incarcerate

Michelle's picture

My favorite 'known unknowns'. ;o}


I pledge allegiance to the Constitution of the United States of America, and to the republic which it established, one nation from many peoples, promising liberty and justice for all

Abbybwood's picture

When he told Parade magazine after 9/11 that a "missile hit the Pentagon" and that Flight 93 over Pennsylvania was "shot down".

Somebody should swear that guy in and have a little chit chat with him!


"The US has an army of 90,000 soldiers in Afghanistan and is spending $100bn a year, but has still been unable to defeat 20,000-25,000 Taliban who receive no pay at all." - Patrick Cockburn

pissed off patricia's picture

The morning of 9-11 I was out and and as soon as I got home I went to a chat room I often visited. There were a lot of regular visitors there who lived in Canada. All the Canadian people were saying the US had shot down a plane over Pennsylvania. They weren't speculating they said they knew it. I have often wondered since then why they were so sure about what they were saying. I believed them at the time with no reason to think otherwise.

Then later the "let's roll" story came out about one of the guys on the plane and I can't help but wonder now if it was like the story about the hero Jessica what's her name who was injured during the invasion of Iraq. That administration seemed to be able to take any story and make it an epic without much to back it up.

No site monitor I am not speculating about what happened on 9-11, just curious about how these stories were handled.


Say what you mean. Mean what you say. But don't say it mean.

Karyn's picture

I wonder what Rummy was thinking when she gave her testimony later and blew their 'story' a mile high.....

real_earl's picture

U.S. Army Ranger Pat Tillman's first mission as an elite Army Ranger in Iraq was the rescue of Pvt. Jessica Lynch, a new book reveals.
Since his death, his wife has dedicated herself to preserving his memory.

And although Tillman played only a bit part in Lynch's rescue, he quickly concluded that the mission had motives beyond military strategy.

"We leave tomorrow,'' Tillman wrote in a series of journal entries in Jon Krakauer's 'Where Men Win Glory: The Odyssey of Pat Tillman," a new book about the tragic friendly fire death of the former NFL star who left a lucrative football career behind after 9/11 to serve in the military.

"This mission will be a P.O.W. rescue, a woman named Jessica Lynch. As awful as I feel for the fear she must face, and admire the courage I'm sure she's showing, I do believe this to be a big Public Relations stunt. Do not mistake me, I wish everyone in trouble to be rescued, but sending this many folks for a single low ranking soldier screams of media blitz."

http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/PatTillman/pat-till...


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Taarak's picture

What I remember from the Jessica Lynch "rescue" was the interviews with the hospital staff later. They said Jessica wasn't being held. They could have just come in and asked for her. Instead they staged a military breach and had everyone in a panic.

"They could have just asked for her."

Paul's picture

Read the title and got my hopes up thinking this was an obituary. Oh, well...

pissed off patricia's picture

When I first read it I thought the same thing. I was wondering when he died and how I missed it.


Say what you mean. Mean what you say. But don't say it mean.

miss_kitty's picture

too bad. Maybe next time we read about his burial, it'll be prosecutorial or funereal in nature.

Geronimo.'s picture

They should also represent him with an award for helping to bring Aspartame to the American public, as long as they are honoring his work for the military industrial complex as well.


"Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people." ~ Eleanor Roosevelt

amish_edison's picture

They could hang in the new "George H.W.Bush Memorial Hall of Unprosecuted American War Criminals." Sadly, accomplice-after-the-fact Barack Obama could cut the ribbon at the Halls opening ceremony. Disgraceful!

Milquetoast's picture
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audit-prosecute-incarcerate

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glogrrl's picture

I'd rather see him buried, period.


“The greatest evildoers are those who don’t remember because they have never given thought to the matter, and, without remembrance, nothing can hold them back,”

miss_kitty's picture

I was about to post the same.

pissed off patricia's picture

You comment about the news you have, not the news you wish you had.


Say what you mean. Mean what you say. But don't say it mean.

Samson-'s picture
:)

nice!

glogrrl's picture

That's why C & L is my favorite site....everybody's so smart and funny! Because you're all liberals, of course!


“The greatest evildoers are those who don’t remember because they have never given thought to the matter, and, without remembrance, nothing can hold them back,”

real_earl's picture

"Death has a tendency to encourage a depressing view of war."


I'm Boycotting NewsCorp! Heres what not to buy: http://www.cjr.org/resources/index.php?c=news...

Geronimo.'s picture

Pat Tillman should be honored by the American public and all of us as well.

New Big Screen Documentary Exposes Pat Tillman Cover-Up: Evidence strongly indicates Tillman was murdered to prevent him from becoming an anti-war icon.

However, in July 2007, the results of an Army medical report found that Tillman had been shot three times in the head with an M16 from a mere 10 yards away, clearly suggesting that the incident was a targeted assassination.

“Army medical examiners were suspicious about the close proximity of the three bullet holes in Pat Tillman’s forehead and tried without success to get authorities to investigate whether the former NFL player’s death amounted to a crime,” reported the Associated Press.


"Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people." ~ Eleanor Roosevelt

glogrrl's picture

he obviously was a victim of "fragging" and the whole thing was covered up by Rumsfeld, Darth Cheney and the Bushmeister. Read Jon Krakaur's new book, "Where Men Win Glory" for the whole story. Fascinating.


“The greatest evildoers are those who don’t remember because they have never given thought to the matter, and, without remembrance, nothing can hold them back,”

play this on an unending loop:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dM73gjZHMxI

Actually, I just think that playing the loud bellows of "WAR CRIMINAL!" over and over again would suffice...

miss_kitty's picture

to escort it out. To much uncomfortable truthiness there.

cw's picture

I love the second lady announcing "here comes the war criminal, Donald Rumsfeld!!!" It's quite the modern take on Royal fanfare... and, I would argue, quite an improvement ;D

calgarylady's picture

I hadn't seen that video before. Way to go, Code Pink!

I also enjoyed the Royal Fanfare. johnnyk427's comment is a hoot.

Thanks, cw!

Edwin's picture

I love Code Pink. They're doing what EVERY American SHOULD be doing!


far left loon >.<

Medical Diagnosis by Video's picture

I call them patriots with integrity.

Edwin's picture

You don't just let war criminals mingle and have fun like they haven't a care in the world, you get in their faces at every chance and make their lives intolerable. Keep it in the news. You can bring down even the mightiest that way.


far left loon >.<

cw's picture

but that code pink clip that I put is old. I can't remember when (or where) I first saw it, but I doubt they have many opportunities to get so close to him nowadays. I still applaud their efforts and while the MSM dismisses them as nuts, I think they are some of the bravest and boldest patriots that we have here. I love the clips of them holding "blood-stained" hands in front of Condi:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NSgXWAfH9ec

Anyway, glad y'all liked (and that calgarylady appreciated the royal fanfare). I happen to think fanfare should play before *any* of us speak =D

justin case's picture

it would have been nice if you had poured on a little more vitriol and told us how much this portrait of a polished turd on canvas cost us.

miss_kitty's picture

nothing for the long term unemployed, a pittance for health care, but plenty for a portrait honouring a war criminal.

glogrrl's picture

not much ego there, eh?


“The greatest evildoers are those who don’t remember because they have never given thought to the matter, and, without remembrance, nothing can hold them back,”

Jason Sigger's picture

THe portrait cost $50 grand, but Rummie says he paid for it. Who knows what the truth is?

Samson-'s picture

Gates noted that the Defense Department is one place in Washington where there is a degree of consistency and continuity, even as administrations and political parties change.

no. shit. its always 'funny' when someone accidently tells the truth.

please, though, someone tell me exactly why rummy is being awarded anything other than subpeona?

pissed off patricia's picture

It just isn't in my nature to wish harm or death on anyone. In Rummy's case I would like to see him humiliated in public. I think that would be a better punishment for his over sized ego.


Say what you mean. Mean what you say. But don't say it mean.

I can't remember just which hearing it was (it's the one where he said he should be fired if need be), but when he stood in front of the committee and raised his hand to swear to tell the whole truth and all of that, when the cameras went crazy snapping photos and he stood their looking very weak and under the microscope, it was compelling imagery. I think of all of the images of "Iraq," that will be one of the most telling (along with "Mission Accomplished" and the shoe throwing incident w/ Bush).

pissed off patricia's picture

I must have missed seeing that one because I always watched the stance and demeanor of those testifying. I don't recall ever seeing him any way except his usual cocky self.


Say what you mean. Mean what you say. But don't say it mean.

cw's picture

I need to look into it. It was when the war was going very badly, right before some midterms (I believe) and Rumsfeld's head was on the chopping block. Prior to his testimony, he stood and swore to tell the truth and it sounded like 100's of cameras were clicking like crazy as he stood there. It was a very uncomfortable moment for him, I bet. Was one of the only times I saw him looking very humble and vulnerable. He looked as guilty as sin and the cameras taking his picture clearly bothered him. I'm on a mission now to find at least a photo of it...

pissed off patricia's picture

Okay, if you find the youtube, let me know. I just might enjoy watching it. Was this near the time when bush said he wouldn't fire him just before he did?


Say what you mean. Mean what you say. But don't say it mean.

cw's picture

Bush waited to fire him until after the midterms, though. And in the hearing I am thinking of, Rumsfeld even stated that if it would help things, Bush should fire him. I want to say it was when the 60 minutes Abu Ghraib stuff was just coming to light, and here is a still photo of him swearing to "tell the whole truth" before the Senate & House Armed Services Committee: http://www.historycommons.org/events-images/a...

It doesn't capture what the environment was like and how he was literally "pelted" with people taking his picture as he stood their preparing to commit perjury.

Argh, I can't believe there's not a youtube of that. I've tried to look at CSPAN, but I can't find a video for that hearing (just a link to "watch the video", but no way to do so). Anyway, it stood out and I think it will be iconic of what happened to our country during this time period (if the Ministry of Truth doesn't erase all records of it first... which I'm starting to wonder about).

cw's picture

cannot find the clip (or even a picture). It was such a big moment too. Maybe only in my mind... Anyway, one day, one day...

savannah43's picture

I have never seen him without the smirk.

glogrrl's picture

don't you remember, Rummy, Cheney & Dubya all had that same smug little smirk.

When you're Masters of the Universe, why shouldn't you?


“The greatest evildoers are those who don’t remember because they have never given thought to the matter, and, without remembrance, nothing can hold them back,”

Medical Diagnosis by Video's picture

interrogation would be enough humiliation. Because that is exactly what I would like to see Bush, Cheney, Libby, Rice, Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz, Yoo and the rest of the barbaric crowd go through--in public.

actually feeling badly about them. A spiritual epiphany. He then becomes so despondent that he commits Hari Kiri.

Geronimo.'s picture

American Soldier Questions Rumsfeld
While visiting soldiers in Iraq, Donald Rumsfeld is asked some tough questions about their inadequate equipment, and he plays deaf.

And another major and mostly ignored gaffe of Don Rumsfeld.


"Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people." ~ Eleanor Roosevelt

John F A's picture

That someday in the future an artist will be able to correct the picture by adding handcuffs to the wrists, a number on his chest, and bars on the wall behind him.

Milquetoast's picture

audit-prosecute-incarcerate

glogrrl's picture

http://www.philosophersguild.com/index.lasso?...

My daughter sent me some of these during the height of the Bush Administration....I love them!

Sorry no Rummy, but plenty of other Bush era villains to enjoy.


“The greatest evildoers are those who don’t remember because they have never given thought to the matter, and, without remembrance, nothing can hold them back,”

cynical debergerac's picture

The teabaggers want to return to the America of the Founding Fathers. When the country was founded, the name of the Cabinet position was Secretary of War. Why don't we return to that?

John F A's picture

want us to return to the original title. There are wingnuts that were never happy with the change.

pissed off patricia's picture

The teabaggers don't know enough history to even know about such things. Remember when Beck asked Palin her favorite founding father she answered, "All of them".


Say what you mean. Mean what you say. But don't say it mean.

Fat Belly Blues's picture

Most Americans are unaware of Rumsfeld's bizarre behavior that morning. From walking into a meeting after being informed of the first plane hitting WTC 1, to disappearing then appearing 20 minutes later near the Pentagon crash site, instead of being the Secretary of Defense. Look it up kids.

Something stinks there.

Fat Belly Blues's picture

...when he told Congress that the Pentagon "LOST" $2.1 BILLION, and he didn't know where the heck it went. No one has ever asked him about that again.

Geronimo.'s picture

On Sept. 10, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld declared war. Not on foreign terrorists, "the adversary's closer to home. It's the Pentagon bureaucracy," he said.

More money for the Pentagon, CBS News Correspondent Vince Gonzales reports, while its own auditors admit the military cannot account for 25 percent of what it spends.

"According to some estimates we cannot track $2.3 trillion in transactions," Rumsfeld admitted.

Full Story: http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2002/01/29/eve...


"Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people." ~ Eleanor Roosevelt

Fat Belly Blues's picture

Thanks.

Geronimo.'s picture

Here's an adequate history of Donald Rumsfeld's participation in our elected Government. All sourced out to major media outlets. It is a good starting point for anyone interested in his activities.

http://www.historycommons.org/searchResults.j...

If there are more or any better ones let me know by placing a link to it. Thanks.


"Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people." ~ Eleanor Roosevelt

Geronimo.'s picture

Donald Rumsfeld is a war criminal and probably worse. And we don't have the governmental infrastructure in place or political will to deal with it at this time. The populace isn't strong enough to adequately deal with it either. We are in a real jam. Any ideas or suggestions on how to fix that would be interesting to discuss.


"Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people." ~ Eleanor Roosevelt

The Political Junkie's picture

there were several foreign countries that want his ass if he ever goes over there.

They might want him in the Hague, too.

And if I'm ever walking down the street and see Rummy on fire, I'll hand him a gas can.

Karyn's picture

n/t

The Political Junkie's picture

but, Italy has warrants out for his arrest the moment he gets off a plane.

For the war crimes America refuses to charge him with.

Truth_Critic's picture

"Who is Jerry Boykin? He is Army Lt. General William G. "Jerry" Boykin. The day before Boykin appeared at the pulpit in Oregon, the Pentagon announced that Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld had nominated the general for a third star and named him to a new position as deputy undersecretary of Defense for intelligence."


Study the symptoms not the virus...

Medical Diagnosis by Video's picture

and has even passed laws protecting them from the International Court in the Hague. Our "leaders" have no integrity or honesty. The Greatest Generation passed on, leaving a generation of rotten opportunists with blood on their hands, but with no remorse in their minds. The collapse is coming.

Truth_Critic's picture
"The Greatest Generation passed on"?

Study the symptoms not the virus...

Medical Diagnosis by Video's picture

to account with the Nuremberg trials. Of course, Former SecWar Robert S. McNamara admitted in the film "Fog of War" that had the war gone the other way, US officials would have been on trial by the Japanese and Germans. But in general, US leaders seemed to be more honorable and stand for principle back then. Pres. Eisenhower's Military-Industrial Complex speech is a good example.

Truth_Critic's picture

Thank you for taking your time to specify your remark. I believe it meritorious in it's "General" scope. ;) √


Study the symptoms not the virus...

Bainbridge22's picture

is an insult to all good jackasses.

http://artaban7.files.wordpress.com/2008/04/2...

pissed off patricia's picture

Remember when he told us the Iraqis weren't looting the art museum over there, we were just seeing a loop of the same man carrying out the same vase over and over? Then he made some comment about freedom being messy.


Say what you mean. Mean what you say. But don't say it mean.

The Political Junkie's picture

"You go to war with the Army you have; Not the one you Want."

Every one of our troops should have gone AWOL and made their way home after hearing that shyt. I have young cousins still in Iraq, and they don't know when the hell they're coming home.

pissed off patricia's picture

I hope your cousins come home soon safe and sound. I had a friend over there at the beginning of the invasion and I remember how I worried about him for 13 months.


Say what you mean. Mean what you say. But don't say it mean.

Medical Diagnosis by Video's picture

He and Bush and Cheney and the rest of them do not give one damn for our service people. I doubt Obama does, because who would allow soldiers to go on 4 or 5 deployments as Obama is doing in Afghanistan. It's Russian Roulette--the chances of them surviving diminish with each deployment. Inhumane. And continuing under Mr. Hope & Change. Disgusting.

They know that all hell will break loose if there is a draft. We all remember the 60's, don't we?

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ikalbertus's picture

Hey if you wanna make an omelette you gotta break a few eggs, right?

ikalbertus's picture

In Woodward's book State of Denial Rumsfeld comes across as by far the most total jackass in a stable of jackasses. Nearly everyone in Bush's inner circle wanted him gone but Bush did not have the kajunas to get rid of him. A psychopath and liar. Can someone steal the portrait and replace with Stephen Colberts?

pissed off patricia's picture

It was cheney who wanted to keep rumsfeld and it took bush's dad to finally get bush to cut him off and bring Gates in. Just one more time bush's dad stepped in to try to get his son out of another mess he had gotten into.


Say what you mean. Mean what you say. But don't say it mean.

bobsf's picture

...is that the man feels privately humiliated and disgraced at the damage he has caused. Probably requires more humanity and love of the ideals this country stands for than he possesses.

Karyn's picture

don't bet on it. "Uncomfortable..(for being haranged in public), maybe. But never 'humiliated or disgraced' jmo

The Political Junkie's picture

for him to feel 1/10th of what he's put our troops through.

I'm not holding my breath.

Or, unless he gets tried at the Hague and the proceedings are televised around the world.

Scarabus's picture

When I first caught the phrase "hung in the Pentagon" … But of course portraits (even of heartless little weasels) are hung, while persons are hanged.

I hope this is just pro forma, something they do for every past secretary. I hope it doesn't mean he's being honored in any way.

ricchase's picture

Beginning with Harry Truman, The Dulles Brothers- John and Allen, Prescott Bush and coupled with the virtual helplessness of President Dwight Eisenhower, America began her downward spiral into secrecy, deceit, and the application of pure evil. The CIA was spawned and nothing on the planet Earth has been the same, since.

This festered until Nixon brought in Donald Rumsfeld and he brought in Dick-Head Cheney. And G.H.W. Bush has been smack dab in the middle of all of it, all along. This is how long and how insidious this "Shadow" government has been working towards the continuing destruction of our constitutional government, from within.

Why, after 60 plus years of covert and overt infiltration of our governmental processes, are these people STILL deeply connected with our everyday lives. Why??? Don't they ever phuckin' DIE?? And even if they don't die, they have no legitimate purpose within our current government. Their mindsets are a half century old. And Senor Rumsfeld has been a very, very major player- -at the nucleus of this rolling disaster. And he lives on.......

Medical Diagnosis by Video's picture

their crimes? None that I can recall. Except by foreign governments they are seeking to undermine or destroy.

ricchase's picture

People need to FINALLY understand- and believe-- there is and has been for a while now, distinct differences (levels) within our government. It is almost as though there are 40, 50, 60...branches of government, acting independently of each other. There is no unified agenda, philosophy, or objective. It's all become "scatter-shot." And a 'every man for himself' mentality within each 'branch.'

Ape-Man's picture

True. But.
Only because we don't vote, and we don't research the
people that run for office.

Make everyone vote, and make them do some research into
the people behind the names.

If we don't start now, we will start after Government serves no one
except the biggest lord of the flies.

None of this need happen if we vote.


"Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob"
-= Franklin Delano Roosevelt =-

Damn it.

Ape-Man's picture

Paying for your own portrait is a start...


"Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob"
-= Franklin Delano Roosevelt =-

flav1's picture

a pile of dogshit.

Because he's lower than dogshit.

Ape-Man's picture

What a villain this man was, and what an example of insanely poor dictatorship of US defense efforts.

Yep. It can happen in any country, if we let it, even the USA. Vote!


"Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob"
-= Franklin Delano Roosevelt =-

Peter G's picture

You gave my heart a warm fuzzy with those first two words and spoiled it with the last two.


Hasa Diga Eebowai

mausium's picture

It's like he's on botox, he's missing his trademark snarl/smirk, and I couldn't even tell any resemblance between the two.

On that note, was there anyone from the last administration who DIDN'T have a snarl/smirk?

Kreskin's picture

WTF ? Yeah , hang a portrait of one of the worst criminals in history in the Pentagon ... and honor him . Hey Rev Wright , I'd say "ditto" right now but I think it's already happened .


Insanity , it is what it is , there is no understanding it .

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gogetem's picture

The Torturer and The Traitor standing side by side. Lovely.

bonsai pajamas's picture

When I looked at the headline, I thought the old fucking bastard had died. Soon come.

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