Factoid: Rumsfeld

Don Rumsfeld, then special envoy of President Ronald Reagan, met with Reagan administration friend Saddam Hussein on January 1, 1984. Twelve days later, The Washington Post reported that the United States "in a shift in policy, has informed friendly Persian Gulf nations that the defeat of Iraq in the three-year-old war with Iran would be 'contrary to U.S. interests,'" This was the same Iraq that was using mustard and nerve gas in the Iran-Iraq war. Back in the day when WMDs were okay.

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Bye-Bye

Secretary Rumsfeld - I hope the door didn't hit you in the ass on the way out.

Rummy Stinks

The Pres and company like to listen to the generals - how come they missed this call? I understand that the Pentagon folks mostly partied when they heard this clown was riding off into the sunset.

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I've seen several reports that criminal charges have been filed in Germany against a number of prominent Republican leaders - including Donald Rumsfeld and Alberto Gonzales. Seems some former inmates at Abu Ghraib are angry over their torture and treatment. Go figure.

The big questions will be, do the German courts have jurisdiction over American politicians?

From the Carpetbagger Report....

New legal documents, to be filed next week with Germany's top prosecutor, will seek a criminal investigation and prosecution of Rumsfeld, along with Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, former CIA director George Tenet and other senior U.S. civilian and military officers, for their alleged roles in abuses committed at Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison and at the U.S. detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

The whole concept is intriguing - can you envision Rumsfeld going from the White House to the Big House? Or how about Alberto Gonzales with a new 6'8" 250 pound boyfriend? And I chuckle over George Tenet keeping his secrets as he's cozying up to two or three Hell's Angels at 2 in the morning.

Yee-Haw!

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More Problems

USA Today is reporting that Rep. Henry Hyde (R) has sent a letter to Donald Rumsfeld outlining the failure of the US program to eradicate poppy (heroin) production in Afghanistan. The article also notes that the production of the illegal drug is the primary funding for the resurgence of the Taliban.

It really doesn't seem like there's much that the Republicans touch right now that they can't screw up, does it?

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