Rumsfeld continuously wrote about needing to develop "bumper sticker statements" to rally public support for an exponentially unpopular war. "Keep elevating the threat," he wrote. He wants to keep promulgating the fright principle, exaggerating the dangers, and to keep using the techniques championed by Adolph Hitler and warned against by George Orwell. Rumsfeld hammered at "link Iraq to Iran," now we know the origins of the linking of Iraq to 9/11, a lie that cost 4,000, Americans and 1.5 million Iraqi's their lives, and how early it appeared. The plan to make the world a war playpen for the Fascists existed twenty years before 9/11, and was well constructed by the year 2000.
Rumsfeld's memos, which the in-group called "snowflakes," display an unflatteringly, curt, dictatorial, snotty, approach. This attitude is often the mark of one whose "solutions' are as impatient and Authoritarionistic, and unyielding as their language and revealed a man who would approve of torture and worse, if given the freedom to do so. The memos ranged from 2002 to beyond the 2006 congressional elections.
He further reveals himself as one driven to delusional beliefs regarding his own importance. He appears a man dismissive of the minds/opinions of others, even if superior to his, which many who disagreed are/were. He seems to loath criticism by the media. He appears driven to distraction to remake public opinion of anything his perceived "enemies" propose, especially the "war" in Iraq. Isn't it sad that a group of cowards, the majority of those which avoided military service, and one which joined to avoid the draft and then used his father's influence to avoid combat or even regular domestic military responsibilities, are now sending others to die and kill?
I solemnly believe that we should appoint several, unrelated teams of psychoanalysts to psychoanalyze anyone who wishes to serve in public office either as elected or appoint officials. That analysis' should be published to the public and to congress and congress and the president should be held civilly and criminally responsible for the actions of those hired, just as those who injure and kill were held liable in The Torah for any Tort, intentional or otherwise.
Rumsfeld, whose often-gruff attitude alienated other Cabinet members and some White House staff members, produced dozens of his memos a day, which were marked neither Classified nor Secret, and so now, we have them.
Rumsfeld seemed to be writing to buoy up his own confidence when the war turned sour, especially in 2006 when a myriad of op-ed pieces written by retiring generals demanding, appeared as a volley and flurry. They all demanded his resignation, denunciated him, completely. Rumsfeld produced a memo after a conference call to a variety of military analysts saying, "Talk about Somalia, the Philippines, etc. " It was almost like a plea to himself. He was trying to muster people to sacrifice, they are looking for leadership. Sacrifice = Victory, he wrote.
He also implied under duress, that he desired a team to get back at the people pursuing him over his Iraq policy and strategy. "I am always on the defense. They say I do it well, but you can't win on the defense. We (meaning, "I") can't just keep taking hits."
Still pushing the party line to hold America and Americans captive to fear and intimidation, he wants the people to knuckle under to terror. He wants them to feel that car bombers are always stalking them. He, like the Big Brother of Orwellian fame sought no end to pressuring Americans, to keep them in fear, and thus in line. He wanted to drum into the heads of Americans that there would no great conclusion to danger, as there was in WWII. He is, under stealth, admitting that the three bibles of the Neo-cons are; Orwell's, 1984, Hitler's Mien Kampf, and a sadly distorted, ignorant, illiterate's guide to the New Testament, superimposed under a misinterpreted, mistranslated, miscomprehended, ignoramus' view of God and Jesus.
He saw this as a means to delude the American people into kneeling to the dictatorship of a never resolving stress, which would keep them trembling and pliable. "It is going to be a long war," in which "Iraq is only one battleground."
He was trying to create a Reverse Domino Effect to frighten Americans into falling prey, fearing, fear itself. Instead of preaching the Domino Effect of Adolph Hitler Nazi conquests, he reversed the effect, to try to tie each nation in the mid-east to, a Domino Rising, like the heads of the Drakon Kholkikos, with many heads, having nothing better to do with their time than to attack the USA for all eternity. How profitable is that to our enemies?
That most, the Main Stream Media could not see through this faux/rouse/façade, even though many of us commentators have, is one of the great mysteries of our time. Try, however to recall, that they saw all of things Hitler did and were unable to tie his program to that of the Bushites. I can only say either they are the dumbest sonsofabitches ever put on the planet or the most corrupt.
As Rumsfeld tied Iraq to 9/11, he was now trying, desperately to tie Iraq to Iran, His plan? That the illogic would go on indefinitely, and he would ensure that by anointing creeps and dunces to public office, especially to the Justice Department, the State Department and key law enforcement positions and the Supreme Court, and to some top military positions.
Americans, like the citizens of Oceana, the Orwellian Continent, and those of prewar Germany, would become slaves of a corrupt and degenerate state in a never ending, life shortening, war and revolutionary vigil, with the people constantly exposed to government sponsored Terrorism. This, of course, would make peaceful family existence impossible. And that would make depopulation of America, easily possible, just he is doing in Iraq, where Private Goon police sweep through neighborhoods assassinating those who disagree, as "terrorists" while the "Elite Leadership, the tiny royalty, would retire to the mountains in incredible wealth and dominance.
These phony wars and phony terrorist distractions would cause Americans to be "frozen in fear but mushy inside." He wanted troops forever occupying Iraq to steal the oil and make the oil companies, Carlyle (the Bush family and friend's war profiteering business), The Private Security murderers, the arms dealers, all joining as dictators in occupying America and later the world, as the wealthiest people who ever lived, whose lives are one long pleasure in the rare-osphere.
Rumsfeld himself labeled his ideas "Bumper stickers," things that move people to fear.
In July 2006, Rumsfeld said that the USA was "getting run out of Central Asia" by the Russians, by their doing a "considerably better job at bullying" than America was doing to "counter their bullying."
Professor Bagnolo is a Renaissance man: Cultural Anthropologist, Architectural designer, painter, writer, novelist, theologian. As a child prodigy, abed with polio for almost two years, with an off the charts IQ, reading at the graduate level by 5th grade, offered an opportunity to skip three grades at age 8. Later He was a recipient of an Art Institute scholarship at age 11, a Ford Foundation Fellowship in Anthropology and in Painting and a merit scholarship in art, and was appointed a Graduate Research Assistant position in college. He holds a triple bachelor's degree in Painting and Drawing, Anthropology, Architectural Design Advertising. MA's in Cultural Anthro, Painting and more. After being tenured he taught; architecture, anthropology, Theology, advertising, painting and drawing, entrepreneuring and Creative Profit Making. He produced a star-studded Music festival, had a radio talk show in Chicago, and cable TV show. Now, retired from Teaching, he paints, writes, and pursues other ventures.
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...if D.R. jumps from one foreign country to another because there's a price on his head. He deserves some angst for all the angst he's given us.
Considering how old he is, he won't be all that angstful for all that much longer, much of which will be spent piddling in diapers and drooling. I think he's already forgotten how to swallow.
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Sandy Sand (172 articles, 0 quicklinks, 222 diaries, 1497 comments)
on Sunday, November 4, 2007 at 1:16:02 PM
RUMSFEILD BUSH CHENEY ROVE RICE DELAY AND THE LIST GOES ON, ARE ALL GUILITY OF WAR CRIMES, AND WILL GET THEIR DO IN TIME, AND THEN THEY WILL BE JUDGED BY THEIR CREATOR GOD ALMIGHTY, AND WHERE THEIR GOING ALL THAT BLOOD MONEY WILL BE FUEL FOR THE FIRE.
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on Monday, November 5, 2007 at 3:51:29 AM
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