Unearthed Clip: RUMMY On Dems Winning Elections: "The Correction For That, I Suppose, Is An Attack"

[kpete]

May 13, 2008

DOCUMENT DUMP: Rumsfeld On 2006 Election :: "The Correction For That...Is An Attack"

An ongoing exploration of the documents related to the Pentagon's "message force multipliers" program has unearthed a clip of former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld suggesting that America, having voted the Democrats back into Congressional power, could benefit from suffering another terrorist attack, and doing so in the presence of the very same military analysts who went on to provide commentary and analysis of the Iraq War.

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DELONG: Politically, what are the challenges because you're not going to have a lot of sympathetic ears up there.

RUMSFELD: That's what I was just going to say. This President's pretty much a victim of success. We haven't had an attack in five years. The perception of the threat is so low in this society that it's not surprising that the behavior pattern reflects a low threat assessment. The same thing's in Europe, there's a low threat perception. The correction for that, I suppose, is an attack.

more at:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/05/13/rumsfeld-on-2006-election_n_101537.html

[saltpoint]

1. Rumsfeld's problem -- one of many, actually -- is that he has always

been jealous of Pol Pot.

Comments like the one he's made there indicates a bone-deep longing on his part to be the Heartless Tyrant, crushing entire populations in his wake.

It's real, real hard to find anything at all to admire in Donald Rumsfeld.

[OregonBlue]

2. We need a campaign commercial of this out there NOW. Get it into the public domain

so that there won't be an "October surprise".

[shain from kane]

3. Release the anthrax! Terror, terror, terror!

[lynnertic]

4. This is just BS talk - not a smoking gun.

Not useful to make such a big deal out of BS talk when there are real crimes to prosecute. Unless of course, all you want is a 2-Mins Hate session.

[Winterblues]

10. Boy are you naive

It is statements such as this that win or lose elections...Yes there are crimes to be persued and prosecuted but there are also elections to win or lose...When you show an ad with one of their top Defense people saying America would benefit from another terrorist attack you have struck gold.....

[lynnertic]

11. Okay. But how does this hurt McCain? He didn't vote for Bush either.

Sez the HuffPost.

[Winterblues]

12. We are running against the Republican method of doing things

Not one person against another. If you think it is just about any one individual you are really naive indeed.

[Mist]

5. Thanks for posting this kpete. Apparently someone combing thru

the enormous document dump that's at TPM found this. A find that confirms what we know of Rumsfeld and this admin.

[alfredo]

6. Nice guy, that Rumsfeld.

[malaise]

7. The audio

http://www.dod.mil/pubs/foi/milanalysts/23%20Apr%2008/Audio%20Files/SecDef%20with%20mil%20analysts%2012.12.06.wav

[Botany]

8. They all should be in jail

Americans dying which will help the repugs is a "good thing."

[yodermon]

9. This is how they think. If you are of the M/LIHOP persuasion

the implications of a fully Democratic administration & Congress this fall are strangely unsettling.

[The Straight Story]

13. kick (nt)

[Disturbed]

14. " how does this hurt McCain? He didn't vote for Bush either."

McLame said that he did vote for Busholini twice & campaigned for him.