Hitler, Hussein and Donald Rumsfeld
By Keith Boykin, in politics
Monday, September 4 2006, 12:53PM
New York Times columnist Frank Rich hits the nail on the head with his critique of Donald Rumsfeld:
"Here's how brazen Rumsfeld was when he invoked Hitler's appeasers to score his cheap points: Since Hitler was photographed warmly shaking Neville Chamberlain's hand at Munich in 1938, the only image that comes close to matching it in epochal obsequiousness is the December 1983 photograph of Rumsfeld himself in Baghdad, warmly shaking the hand of Saddam Hussein in full fascist regalia. Is the defense secretary so self-deluded that he thought no one would remember a picture so easily Googled on the Web? Or worse, is he just too shameless to care?"
"...Well before Rumsfeld's trip, Amnesty International had reported the dictator's use of torture -- 'beating, burning, sexual abuse and the infliction of electric shocks' -- on hundreds of political prisoners. Dozens more had been summarily executed or had "disappeared." American intelligence agencies knew that Saddam had used chemical weapons to gas both Iraqi Kurds and Iranians. According to declassified State Department memos detailing Rumsfeld's Baghdad meetings, the American visitor never raised the subject of these crimes with his host..."
-- Frank Rich, New York Times
Comments conceal
THE EMPRESS
September 4 2006, 1:19PM
INTERESTING...HHMM...
JP
September 4 2006, 6:19PM
Wow.
Liquid Fonts
September 4 2006, 7:10PM
What in the world was he thinking? or was he...
jared
September 4 2006, 8:30PM
he was thinking how the usa could get its hand on some of those oil fields at cheap prices. as with everything in the gop's mind about "democracy" its all about the green backs and texas tea, or in this case saddams iraqi tea.
Steve
September 4 2006, 11:23PM
I vote for too shameless to care.
Jim
September 5 2006, 3:11AM
Rumsfield is too shameless to care. (About this, or anything else, for that matter.)
Why? Because, he and his fellow gangsters have already achieved much of their objectives in Iraq, and will continue to achieve more of them.
The gangsters’ power is secure. The polls may say that the president is unpopular, but the gangsters are not going away, no matter what happens.
gs
September 5 2006, 11:23AM
If this assessment came from anyone but the left-wing, let's tell the world all of our national secrets, plagerizing NY Times I would consider it. But it's like reading a comic strip.....laughable.
trmadol
January 27 2007, 6:05AM
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tramdol
January 27 2007, 7:46AM
Bonjour! What a super websight! Very refreshing to peruse from where we live in Paris (France). I eat frogs and drink wine. Woold like more informatons on this. Best regards! Mikael.
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