Quote of the Day - 5.17.09
| Sun May. 17, 2009 3:48 PM PDT
From Fran Townsend, George Bush's assistant for homeland security and counterterrorism, when White House chief of staff Andy Card called during Hurricane Rita to ask her what she needed:
“I want to know if the president knows what a fucking asshole Don Rumsfeld is.”
Probably not. But plenty of other people did. Robert Draper's full story is here.
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Just so stupid
Submitted by Human bean (not verified) on Sun May. 17, 2009 5:37 PM PDT.
Thing that kills me about these briefs is what amounts to reckless use of the New Testament in the Middle East. I'm not sure that's so easy to do, but Bush apparently found a way.
I mean, you have a cover sheet and the brief. The cover sheet could be leaked without leaking the brief (I assume), and according to the images GQ the cover sheets were drenched in New Testament prose.
Stupid Move 1: So if for any reason the cover sheet is seen by the public, the US loses every inch of moral high ground in Iraq. Moral high ground is imperiled in Afghanistan as well as Pakistan, too, if the cover sheet somehow becomes public.
Stupid 2: a published cover sheet puts enormous pressure on the administration to release at least a part of the brief. The brief has become less secure because of the content of the cover sheet.
Stupid 3: you have to realize that, if you must allude to Christ here, you must put it in the body of the brief (see Stupids 1 & 2). But of course it has no business there, and the only reasonable conclusion is to remove all allusions to Christ and Christianity from both the cover sheet and the brief. If you as president can't see this, find another job please.
I thought the Bush administration couldn't out low its lowest, but I'm having second thoughts now.
a bit more info. about Don
Submitted by Ivy (not verified) on Sun May. 17, 2009 7:13 PM PDT.
a bit more info. about Don Rumsfeld.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=c5P6MLiKEJI
Rumsfeld
Submitted by Altoid (not verified) on Sun May. 17, 2009 9:26 PM PDT.
The amazing thing about Rumsfeld was always his uncanny ability to make sure his fingerprints never showed up on anything, even when there couldn't be any doubt he had to be in the chain of responsibility. He still managed to dodge it. And of course bush let him get away with it all the time; the more fool he, jerked around by Cheney and Rumsfeld like a little child.
Nothing this article says about Rumsfeld is a surprise. It's that the others are willing to say this about him now.
Now they're speaking out.
Submitted by Luther on Mon May. 18, 2009 8:31 AM PDT.
Now they're speaking out. What courage.
It is a very interesting
Submitted by Travis (not verified) on Mon May. 18, 2009 9:53 AM PDT.
It is a very interesting article, and I don't doubt a word of it.
However, it's also a bought and paid for hit on Rumsfeld, so I have to wonder who was behind this, such as the damning cover sheets that were saved for five years. The story does rescue Bush's reputation to a slight degree: he is out of the loop and mostly unaware of Rumsfeld's shenanigans. With Katrina, Bush at least asked a couple of reasonable questions (in the article).
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