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In Dec. of 2001 or January of 2002 we had an elite squad of Rangers less then 1 mile of bin Laden's cave in the mountains of Afghanistan and he called them off. And why did he do that you ask? Because with Osama bin Laden dead they would have had a much harder time selling Cheney's war for Iraqi oil.
Rummy also signed off on PNAC's (project for a new American Century) letter to President Clinton asking for a war in Iraq.
That poor little Syrian boy laying dead on that Turkish beach was running with his family from ISIS which was created in the aftermath of Rummy/Cheney/bush's Iraq War.
Fuck him I hope he suffered.
walkingman
(7,582 posts)war in Iraq cost hundreds of thousands of lives (yes, non-americans are still people) and destabilized the entire Middle East.
RVN VET71
(2,689 posts)Really? Id heard it was only about 60,000. Seriously. He said only about 60,000 human beings murdered by his orders.
Sorry, Georgie, I never have wanted and still do not want to have a beer with you.
Oh, and Iraq was Cheneys and Rumsfelds war -- Bush signed off on it because he thought being a war president was cool. And together, the 3 of them brought hell on the people of Iraq and killed 5,000 American soldiers, more Americans than were killed by bin Laden.
Ah, but Rummy was not just a mass murderer and war criminal, like his two compadres. He was also a tiny-minded jerk who laughed, literally joked about, the pillaging of the museum of ancient artifacts in Baghdad. He told the media a-holes that, geez, all I see are people carrying off vases, one after another. Ive never seen (heh-heh) so many vases getting carried by so many people (har-har). and the dull witted bastards of the press joined him in a hearty laugh about how our troops stood by while priceless and irreplaceable treasures of human history were stolen. (It turned out, later, much later, that many of those objects were returned by people who had taken them to protect them from destruction. Rummy and those press people did not know that. I still get angry thinking about it.)
In short: Im glad hes dead. Im sad theres no hell.
zipplewrath
(16,646 posts)He'd better hope its not them that will decide his fate in the after life.
I_UndergroundPanther
(12,462 posts)be eaten along with his heart by Ammit, and be no more.
He wouldn't know Ma'at if she slapped the shit out of him. I don't know if Rumsfeld could even have all the shit slapped out of him because he was totally made of pure ugly evil shit.
Gidney N Cloyd
(19,823 posts)The Unmitigated Gall
(3,780 posts)UpInArms
(51,280 posts)underpants
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I could find the reference but I remember a CBS report about how just about 1000 Rangers could have been the difference in Tora Bora.
LetMyPeopleVote
(144,929 posts)crickets
(25,952 posts)mitch96
(13,870 posts)that made a bucket load of our tax dollars.. He was a good friend of theirs... arrogant prick..
And as the saying goes, Nothing But Good things Should Be Said of the Dead He's Dead. Good.
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Efilroft Sul
(3,578 posts) Satan, handing Rummy a defective broom at the eternal, infernal, shit-filled stables
IronLionZion
(45,380 posts)Rumsfeld's Iraq war didn't even lower oil prices after all those people killed and dollars wasted and lives destroyed.
NoMoreRepugs
(9,371 posts)no reason for a protracted invasion/occupation.
Midnight Writer
(21,717 posts)dchill
(38,447 posts)FoxNewsSucks
(10,422 posts)He can just burn in the fires Lucifer has, not the fires Lucifers wants to have.
NullTuples
(6,017 posts)Is that I know he got away with it. He caused so much pain and suffering and was never held accountable.
While that might risk seeming Nihilist, to me it just reaffirms just how important it is to bring evil people to justice and to celebrate good people.
bdamomma
(63,799 posts)an exceptional recap of this bastard, he was the architect of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars.
drmeow
(5,012 posts)I want them all to die in pain