Rumsfeld Memoir Absolutely Worthless

[Better Believe It]

Rumsfeld Memoir Absolutely Worthless
By Amitabh Pal
Managing Editor of The Progressive
February 9, 2011

Instead of retreating into a monastery somewhere, Donald Rumsfeld has the gall to release his memoir, a shamelessly self-serving heap of tripe.

Rumsfeld had the dubious distinction of disastrously helming an illegal war. But this doesn’t seem to have deterred him from stepping back into the spotlight. He uses the opportunity to engage in score-settling, pinning blame on others for the biggest foreign policy debacle in decades.

“In his worldview, the news media and authors who recounted Bush's term in office have distorted almost everything—including the timing of the decision to go to war in Iraq after the 9/11 attacks; the responsibility for holding, interrogating and prosecuting detainees in Guantanamo Bay; and even the handling of the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina,” Gwen Ifill writes in the Washington Post.

There are very few regrets in the memoir. Rumsfeld still justifies the Iraq War, and says there was nothing wrong in the way the Afghanistan War was conducted. He takes potshots at many of his colleagues, especially Colin Powell and Condoleezza Rice. There’s a special animus reserved for Bush Senior, lingering from the Nixon era. The only two major players to escape his wrath are his old buddy Dick Cheney and, to a certain extent, Dubya.

Read the full article at:

http://www.progressive.org/ap020911.html

[madmax]

1. Thereby joining w's. n/t

[CurtEastPoint]

2. As documented by Luckovich...

[Raster]

3. The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse: bush*, cheney*, rumsfeld* and rice*

Traitors, liars, murderers and war criminals.

"...his memoir, a shamelessly self-serving heap of tripe."

And that is far too kind.

[delightfulstar]

4. Rumsfeld Absolutely Worthless Too.

Given my disdain for Rummy Boy and his ilk, I thoroughly enjoyed that review - thanks for sharing it!

[csziggy]

5. I think the reviewer insulted tripe n/t

[montanto]

6. Tripe isn't all bad y'know.

That's the difference.

[Swede]

7. A waste of trees.

[rustydog]

8. America would probably be better off reading Justin Beiber's memoir

Rumsfeld is a war criminal. period. I do not need to read "Mein Kampf-2 idiots on patrol."

[gratuitous]

9. Please, what's done is done

Let them all cash one more check for their crimes, and then let's look forward to the future, instead of backwards to the past. Move forward, lean forward, muddle through, puddle through. Do whatever it takes to just forget all this because it just makes too many of the right people feel uncomfortable. I mean, we can argue all day about who committed what war crimes or crimes against humanity, but the truth is, George and Donald and Dick and all the rest of them are pretty steamed about the way it all turned out, and they really wanted to see statues of themselves springing up all over Iraq. So let's just say both sides made mistakes (except for the Bush administration), and go on from there.

It's really the only reasonable course to pursue.

[Orsino]

10. Easy money for some poor ghost writer. n/t

[democrat2thecore]

13. That part is wrong

He is a prolific journal keeper and writer. He wrote the book. Which, frankly, is even more telling.

[Orsino]

15. I'm mystified.

Why would he bother?

[democrat2thecore]

18. Well, it's a fascinating career

I'm glad he wrote this memoir so we have so much down in black & white regarding his crimes regarding Iraq and torture. But, he also writes vastly about his 40 years(!) in public life that covers a lot of territory. I mean, the guy was Chief-Of-Staff for Gerald Ford! Interestingly, until his hooking up with Wolfowitz, Perle & company, Rumsfeld was always seen as a moderate. In fact, on domestic affairs, Rumsfeld still holds liberal to moderate views. He cites the civil rights laws as the greatest thing to see during his career. He is a complex man; though nothing can overshadow his participation in the war crimes of the past decade.

[Raster]

11. And a KICK for the "...shamelessly self-serving heap of tripe."

Donald Rumsfeld* = war criminal

[hobbit709]

12. Kindling material

[DCKit]

14. On a good note, it's in print - rewrites are out of the question.

Just as Dumbya admitted to authorizing torture, those things that D.R. have admitted to are now set in stone.

None of them are safe leaving the country, but it's still up to us to put them all in prison.

[sofa king]

16. I think it would be almost fun to compare the Bush and Rumsfeld memoirs.

A comparison of the two would almost certainly lead to numerous hilarious examples of each sticking to a different version of the lies they told, and both of their versions already being proven false by later disclosures and actions.

Oh, and there's money, a whole shitload of it gone missing and snarkily announced by Rumsfeld less than 24 hours before the DOD's accounting department was killed at the Pentagon. If I wanted a trillion dollars, or some part of it, I'd be looking for the shared untruths that Bush and Rumsfeld tell. The cash is hiding somewhere under those lies, and anyone strong and ruthless and clever enough to find it and take it away from them gets it off the books and tax-free.

[WinkyDink]

17. NS, S!

[Johonny]

19. so far the post Bush presidency book tour has shown them to be boring

and stupid. Just like they were in office.