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Trained Apes Could Do Better (Original Post) CatWoman Mar 2014 OP
See, that's exactly how I took Rumsfeld's comments Glitterati Mar 2014 #1
says the guy who couldn't do better NightWatcher Mar 2014 #2
Rumsfeld and the administration he rose from should be in prison. Cleita Mar 2014 #3
Because we're all so busy "looking forward." polichick Mar 2014 #5
Rumsfeld is despicable Oilwellian Mar 2014 #4
For some true enjoyment, read the comments on that original story. calimary Mar 2014 #6
But they didn't during the bush* years rock Mar 2014 #7
:) CatWoman Mar 2014 #15
how ironic ... napkinz Mar 2014 #8
Ignorance and Arrogance . . FairWinds Mar 2014 #9
9/11 happened on his watch malaise Mar 2014 #10
why isn't he speaking from a jail cell? napkinz Mar 2014 #11
Says the guy that couldn't catch OBL. Rex Mar 2014 #12
Racist. n/t murielm99 Mar 2014 #13
racist pig or insensitive ass? napkinz Mar 2014 #14
a must read ... napkinz Mar 2014 #16
a trained ape ... napkinz Mar 2014 #17
 

Glitterati

(3,182 posts)
1. See, that's exactly how I took Rumsfeld's comments
Wed Mar 26, 2014, 12:16 PM
Mar 2014

Nothing more than Rumsfeld wishing for another Bush in office.

You know, Bush - who simply followed every neocon wet dream about killing muslims!

Hell, does ANYone doubt that when Rumsfeld said let's bomb <pick a country> Bush, the trained monkey, said OK, let's do that!

Rumsfeld's wet dream come true.

Cleita

(75,480 posts)
3. Rumsfeld and the administration he rose from should be in prison.
Wed Mar 26, 2014, 12:26 PM
Mar 2014

Why are they still wandering around free and able to fling their poo any time they like?

calimary

(81,295 posts)
6. For some true enjoyment, read the comments on that original story.
Wed Mar 26, 2014, 01:38 PM
Mar 2014

I think it was something like 100 to one along the same lines.

Just for example:

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/03/25/1287214/-Rumsfeld-charges-that-Obama-isn-t-as-good-as-a-trained-ape-on-Afghanistan

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/03/25/donald-rumsfeld-trained-ape_n_5027750.html

http://crooksandliars.com/2014/03/rumsfeld-if-obama-was-trained-ape-us

After all, wasn't rummy's "boss" widely referred to as the chimp? Untrained at that, considering how he shat all over the White House, the State Dept, the Defense Dept, the Interior Dept, the Treasury Dept, the Commerce Dept, the Health & Human Services Dept, the Education Dept, the VA, and many many many MANY more. And that's just in THIS country. He completely fucked up two more!

So YEAH, rummy darling, tell me all about those trained apes. Or trained trained. Or trained untrained. Or untrained trained. Or maybe untrained untrained!

 

FairWinds

(1,717 posts)
9. Ignorance and Arrogance . .
Wed Mar 26, 2014, 02:27 PM
Mar 2014

are a dangerous combination - as war criminal Rummy illustrates so well.
I remember how cringe-making it was when he could not come close to pronouncing
"Venezuela" correctly; and Dubya, of course, never said "nuclear" properly
in his eight state of the union hack jobs.
Both of those war criminals seemed to love flaunting their ignorance.
Even if many anti-intellectual Americans sort of enjoyed it, don't think
that the rest of the world did not notice.

 

Rex

(65,616 posts)
12. Says the guy that couldn't catch OBL.
Wed Mar 26, 2014, 03:04 PM
Mar 2014

What an incredibly offensive thing to say, naturally the people at Socknews will LOVE it.

napkinz

(17,199 posts)
16. a must read ...
Wed Mar 26, 2014, 07:46 PM
Mar 2014
STFU, You War Mongering, Blood Thirsty, Parasitic Embarrassment to All Carbon-Based Life Forms Part II





March 25th, 2014
by James Schlarmann

Dear Donald Rumsfeld,

Before I get too far into this thing, allow me to say on behalf of the American people:

Shut the fuck up. Like forever-style. Shut the fuck up forever, Donald Rumsfeld.

-snip-

Why are you forbidden by the laws of logic from opening your mendacious mouth up about all things military? The Iraq War, that’s why. Weapons of Mass Destruction, that’s why. Yellow cake, that’s why. Greeted as liberators, that’s why. Mission Accomplished, that’s why. In other words, the guy who led us into the most heinous and transparent war for profit endeavor in our country’s history does not get to say anything about any other president’s foreign policy mistakes, full stop. I’d be more inclined to listen to that moron Ted Cruz’s babbling lunacy about President Obama’s tyranny than I would to sit through even four consecutive words out of your vile mouth on any subject, let alone that of war and foreign policy.

You see, Rummy, you and the entirety of the Bush II Administration are the living embodiments of foreign policy blunders. Whenever historians want to point out how badly a war effort can play upon public fears using a cocktail of lies, rhetoric and misleading information, they will forever point to you, Donald. They will forever cast you aside as the war monger you are, at least the decent historians will. The history revisionists that have overtaken your party will try to spin their bullshit narrative, but thank God that facts are still stubborn things, because the facts of the universe are that you and your fellow denizens of the Worst Presidential Administration of All Time have zero credibility on this issue specifically. Zero. Zilch. Nada. You are trusted as far as we can throw your wrinkly ass, in other words.

The more I think about it, the more I think we should probably be a bit in of awe of your Fox News appearance. I mean, normally when someone from the Bush Administration opens their mouth up about foreign policy it’s a laugh riot for standard irony purposes. It’s like if a murderer were to complain about how violent a society we’ve become, right? But it takes a certain level of depravity, a certain commitment to ignorance and reality deprivation for one of you to wrap your irony in a cloak of utter racism…and you just pulled that exact maneuver off swimmingly, Don.

You said on Fox News, Rummy that “We have status of forces agreements probably with 100, 125 countries in the world. This administration, the White House, and the State Department, have failed to get a status of forces agreement.” But yet if that’s true, then why did you and Bush and Dick act so unilaterally in Iraq? It didn’t seem like you could give any less of a shit about those agreements when the countries who signed those agreements all but told you to go fuck yourself when you wanted to start the Iraq War. The irony of a Bush Acolyte criticizing someone for not being able to muster international support for a foreign policy endeavor is just too much to handle.

read more: http://www.politicalgarbagechute.com/stfu-you-war-mongering-blood-thirsty-parasitic-embarrassment-to-all-carbon-based-life-forms-part-ii/






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