Hillary calls for Rumsfeld's resignation. finally.
Sen. Hillary Clinton, at long last, gets around to calling for Secretary of War Donald Rumsfeld's resignation.
Did Hillary mention the MISSING NINETY BILLION in Iraq reconstruction funds from the first year of the Iraq war/US invasion/US occupation? Did Senator Clinton mention the Al QAAQA ammunition complex looting - tons and tons and tons of munitions and explosives looted under the noses of US military, as military high command had American combat troops peeling potatoes on KP duty (duty Iraqis would gladly have done for some clean water and the leftover scraps at the time)?
Did Senator Clinton mention the KANGAROO COURTS run by Secretary Rumsfeld to make PRIVATES Lynddie England and Sabrina Samson bear the opprobrium of the Secretary's own torture schemes? The ones where General Miller was PROMOTED FROM Guantanamo to Iraq, specifically TO BRING THE GUANTANAMO torture methods to Iraq? Here is Amnesty International's very good summation of the LINK between Secretary Rumsfeld, General Miller, the "Guantanamo Torture methods," and cheer-leading from the naziesque neo-con right-wing, in this case editorial writer WILLIAM SAFIRE of the NEW YORK TIMES:
<< Indeed, these psychological [torture] techniques are so elusive that they remain, even today, invisible in plain sight. After CBS broadcast those notorious photos from Abu Ghraib prison in the April 2004, DEFENSE SECRETARY DONALD RUMSFELD DISMISSED THEM as unrepresentative acts "by a small number of U.S. military," whom the conservative New York Times columnist William Safire branded "creeps."
Moreover, each extended application of this psychological method has produced innovation—an adaptability evident today in the war on terror. Under the command of GENERAL GEOFFREY MILLER, Guantanamo became an ad hoc behavioral laboratory for innovative interrogation techniques that, in sum, perfected the CIA’s psychological paradigm. Moving beyond the agency’s original, generic attack on sensory receptors universal to all humans, Guantanamo’s interrogators intensified the psychological assault by exploiting Arab cultural sensitivities to sexuality, gender identity and fear of dogs. Miller also formed teams of military psychologists to probe each detainee’s phobias. Significantly, after repeated visits to Guantanamo in 2002-2004, the International Committee of the Red Cross described these practices as “an intentional system of cruel, unusual and degrading treatment and a form of torture.” >>
http://www.amnestyusa.org/magazine/invisible_in_plain_sight.html
Of course, TORTURE, DEGREDATION, SADISM, ALLOWING LOOTERS to RUN FREE in Baghdad and throughout Iraq (by dismissing the Iraqi military), and the systematic CORRUPTION represented by NINETY BILLION DOLLARS in missing reconstruction funds, are all symptoms of the same disease: Secretary Rumsfeld's complete loathing, scorn and contempt for Iraqis. If, in 1983, then presidential (Regean) envoy Rumsfeld SUPPORTED SADDAM HUSSEIN's war against Iranians, Shiite separatists, and Kurdish civilians, who are subhuman Iraqis to oppose the will of Mr. Rumsfeld (and thus the policies of the United States)?
If, in 1991, Mr. Rumsfeld was for the complete annhilation of that same Iraqi military, who could argue with that?
If, at the end of the Gulf I war, the United States encouraged the Shiites to revolt against Saddam's power - and then the Bush1 administration stood back as Saddam's helicopter gunships wiped out thousands of rebels, who are Iraqis to complain?
And now, Mr. Rumsfeld is back to supporting the Shiites vs the Sunnis again.
In sum, Mr. Rumsfeld attitude towards Iraqis is "GO AHEAD AND DIE ALREADY - you are polluting our oil siezures!"
And the SOB will even allow AMERICAN SERVICEMEN and WOMN to TWIST IN THE WIND - to take the rap for HIS TORTURE POLICIES - because he is too cowardly to stand up and make the case for his own policies.
Mr. Rumsfeld is the most disgraceful Secretary of War in US history. With the DIA, CIA, NSA, and dozens of other agencies warning about the threat of Al Qaida attacks on the US in 2001, and even the Italian f***ing police STATIONING SURFACE TO AIR MISSILES around the July 2001 Genoa G-8 summit TO PREVENT Al Qaida from HIJACKING AN AIRLINER and using it as a FLYING BOMB to attack the G8 summit presidents, Mr. Rumsfeld STILL COULD NOT TAKE A HINT, to impress on President Bush the need to take an Al Qaida HIJACKING IN AMERICA threat seriously in that summer of 2001.
Oh... and where were those NORAD interceptors as FOUR American airlines went 180º off course on 9-11-2001?
Like Mr. Rumsfeld accepting responsibility for HIS torture policies and HIS command failures, they (NORAD interceptors) WERE AWOL on 9-11-2001.
So Senator Hillary Clinton is FINALLY making a call for Mr. Rumsfeld's resignation.
Makes one wonder what DIEBOLD will have to do before THEY earn Senator Clinton's attention - maybe videotape and broadcast the tapes of "How to hack computers and switch 5 million votes to steal an election, in three easy steps"?
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Sen. Clinton says Rumsfeld should resign
By DEVLIN BARRETT, Associated Press Writer
August 4, 2006
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060804/ap_on_go_co/clinton_iraq
WASHINGTON - Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton on Thursday called on Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld to resign, hours after excoriating him at a public hearing over what she called "failed policy" in Iraq.
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"I just don't understand why we can't get new leadership that would give us a fighting chance to turn the situation around before it's too late," the New York Democrat and potential 2008 presidential contender said in an interview with The Associated Press. "I think the president should choose to accept Secretary Rumsfeld's resignation."
"The secretary has lost credibility with the Congress and with the people," she said. "It's time for him to step down and be replaced by someone who can develop an effective strategy and communicate it effectively to the American people and to the world."
Asked about Clinton's comments, Pentagon spokesman Eric Ruff said, "We don't discuss politics."
Clinton had resisted joining the chorus of other Democrats demanding Rumsfeld's ouster. Her remarks Thursday were the harshest assessment yet from the woman considered her party's early front-runner for the 2008 presidential nomination.
The former first lady has come under attack from some in her own party for voting for the war in 2002 and her current opposition to a deadline for U.S. troop withdrawal.
She criticized Rumsfeld in person earlier Thursday during a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing.
"Under your leadership, there have been numerous errors in judgment that have led us to where we are," she said. "We have a full-fledged insurgency and full-blown sectarian conflict in Iraq."
The defense secretary rejected some of her specific criticisms as simply wrong and said the war against terror will be a drawn-out process. He said he never glossed over the difficulties of the fighting.
"I have never painted a rosy picture," he said. "I've been very measured in my words, and you'd have a dickens of a time trying to find instances where I've been excessively optimistic."
Did Hillary mention the MISSING NINETY BILLION in Iraq reconstruction funds from the first year of the Iraq war/US invasion/US occupation? Did Senator Clinton mention the Al QAAQA ammunition complex looting - tons and tons and tons of munitions and explosives looted under the noses of US military, as military high command had American combat troops peeling potatoes on KP duty (duty Iraqis would gladly have done for some clean water and the leftover scraps at the time)?
Did Senator Clinton mention the KANGAROO COURTS run by Secretary Rumsfeld to make PRIVATES Lynddie England and Sabrina Samson bear the opprobrium of the Secretary's own torture schemes? The ones where General Miller was PROMOTED FROM Guantanamo to Iraq, specifically TO BRING THE GUANTANAMO torture methods to Iraq? Here is Amnesty International's very good summation of the LINK between Secretary Rumsfeld, General Miller, the "Guantanamo Torture methods," and cheer-leading from the naziesque neo-con right-wing, in this case editorial writer WILLIAM SAFIRE of the NEW YORK TIMES:
<< Indeed, these psychological [torture] techniques are so elusive that they remain, even today, invisible in plain sight. After CBS broadcast those notorious photos from Abu Ghraib prison in the April 2004, DEFENSE SECRETARY DONALD RUMSFELD DISMISSED THEM as unrepresentative acts "by a small number of U.S. military," whom the conservative New York Times columnist William Safire branded "creeps."
Moreover, each extended application of this psychological method has produced innovation—an adaptability evident today in the war on terror. Under the command of GENERAL GEOFFREY MILLER, Guantanamo became an ad hoc behavioral laboratory for innovative interrogation techniques that, in sum, perfected the CIA’s psychological paradigm. Moving beyond the agency’s original, generic attack on sensory receptors universal to all humans, Guantanamo’s interrogators intensified the psychological assault by exploiting Arab cultural sensitivities to sexuality, gender identity and fear of dogs. Miller also formed teams of military psychologists to probe each detainee’s phobias. Significantly, after repeated visits to Guantanamo in 2002-2004, the International Committee of the Red Cross described these practices as “an intentional system of cruel, unusual and degrading treatment and a form of torture.” >>
http://www.amnestyusa.org/magazine/invisible_in_plain_sight.html
Of course, TORTURE, DEGREDATION, SADISM, ALLOWING LOOTERS to RUN FREE in Baghdad and throughout Iraq (by dismissing the Iraqi military), and the systematic CORRUPTION represented by NINETY BILLION DOLLARS in missing reconstruction funds, are all symptoms of the same disease: Secretary Rumsfeld's complete loathing, scorn and contempt for Iraqis. If, in 1983, then presidential (Regean) envoy Rumsfeld SUPPORTED SADDAM HUSSEIN's war against Iranians, Shiite separatists, and Kurdish civilians, who are subhuman Iraqis to oppose the will of Mr. Rumsfeld (and thus the policies of the United States)?
If, in 1991, Mr. Rumsfeld was for the complete annhilation of that same Iraqi military, who could argue with that?
If, at the end of the Gulf I war, the United States encouraged the Shiites to revolt against Saddam's power - and then the Bush1 administration stood back as Saddam's helicopter gunships wiped out thousands of rebels, who are Iraqis to complain?
And now, Mr. Rumsfeld is back to supporting the Shiites vs the Sunnis again.
In sum, Mr. Rumsfeld attitude towards Iraqis is "GO AHEAD AND DIE ALREADY - you are polluting our oil siezures!"
And the SOB will even allow AMERICAN SERVICEMEN and WOMN to TWIST IN THE WIND - to take the rap for HIS TORTURE POLICIES - because he is too cowardly to stand up and make the case for his own policies.
Mr. Rumsfeld is the most disgraceful Secretary of War in US history. With the DIA, CIA, NSA, and dozens of other agencies warning about the threat of Al Qaida attacks on the US in 2001, and even the Italian f***ing police STATIONING SURFACE TO AIR MISSILES around the July 2001 Genoa G-8 summit TO PREVENT Al Qaida from HIJACKING AN AIRLINER and using it as a FLYING BOMB to attack the G8 summit presidents, Mr. Rumsfeld STILL COULD NOT TAKE A HINT, to impress on President Bush the need to take an Al Qaida HIJACKING IN AMERICA threat seriously in that summer of 2001.
Oh... and where were those NORAD interceptors as FOUR American airlines went 180º off course on 9-11-2001?
Like Mr. Rumsfeld accepting responsibility for HIS torture policies and HIS command failures, they (NORAD interceptors) WERE AWOL on 9-11-2001.
So Senator Hillary Clinton is FINALLY making a call for Mr. Rumsfeld's resignation.
Makes one wonder what DIEBOLD will have to do before THEY earn Senator Clinton's attention - maybe videotape and broadcast the tapes of "How to hack computers and switch 5 million votes to steal an election, in three easy steps"?
************************************************
Sen. Clinton says Rumsfeld should resign
By DEVLIN BARRETT, Associated Press Writer
August 4, 2006
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060804/ap_on_go_co/clinton_iraq
WASHINGTON - Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton on Thursday called on Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld to resign, hours after excoriating him at a public hearing over what she called "failed policy" in Iraq.
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"I just don't understand why we can't get new leadership that would give us a fighting chance to turn the situation around before it's too late," the New York Democrat and potential 2008 presidential contender said in an interview with The Associated Press. "I think the president should choose to accept Secretary Rumsfeld's resignation."
"The secretary has lost credibility with the Congress and with the people," she said. "It's time for him to step down and be replaced by someone who can develop an effective strategy and communicate it effectively to the American people and to the world."
Asked about Clinton's comments, Pentagon spokesman Eric Ruff said, "We don't discuss politics."
Clinton had resisted joining the chorus of other Democrats demanding Rumsfeld's ouster. Her remarks Thursday were the harshest assessment yet from the woman considered her party's early front-runner for the 2008 presidential nomination.
The former first lady has come under attack from some in her own party for voting for the war in 2002 and her current opposition to a deadline for U.S. troop withdrawal.
She criticized Rumsfeld in person earlier Thursday during a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing.
"Under your leadership, there have been numerous errors in judgment that have led us to where we are," she said. "We have a full-fledged insurgency and full-blown sectarian conflict in Iraq."
The defense secretary rejected some of her specific criticisms as simply wrong and said the war against terror will be a drawn-out process. He said he never glossed over the difficulties of the fighting.
"I have never painted a rosy picture," he said. "I've been very measured in my words, and you'd have a dickens of a time trying to find instances where I've been excessively optimistic."
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