March 20, 2006
Welcome to the brain of the Don
The Donald Rumsfeld that is. Plastic has an excellent resume of web links from his halcyon days in the Nixon and Ford administrations to leading two failed wars (see what sort of freedom and democracy has brought to Afghanistan?) for Dubya.
Read his own words, justifying what has been accomplished in the past three years in Iraq. Believe any of it? Like Rummy's $50 billion dollar and 5 week estimates of the war costs and length? And what's up with his comparisons of very and sundries with Hitler? Do we really fear that a 1000 year Venezualan Reich is right around the corner? Or is he projecting a bit?
Going back to the resume, we have to reflect on his successful running of the Office of Economic Opportunity under Nixon and his back-room efforts to help get the US out of the Vietnam War. For that he was shuffled off to be NATO ambassador. Then triumph as chief of staff and defense secretary under Ford, fighting against the whole nastiness of detante. Off to the private sector until Dubya decides to bring the Nixon crowd all back to the White House. The epic Shinseki-Rumsfeld fight seems now to be a footnote in the story, but certainly marked part of the White House team's decent into unreality.
Afghanistan. Iraq. Some investigations into what Rumsfeld has wrought.
Hi can you please tell me from where comes the name Dubya for Bush? Thanks
Posted by: Juan at March 20, 2006 05:19 PMDubya for how one would pronounce the letter "W", the middle initial of the President, if one is from the southern part of the country. A lot of Bush's campaign posters, ads, car stickers, and the like had a big bold W instead of a name. So the opposition tends to use a W with a slash through it.
Posted by: Mike at March 21, 2006 09:07 AMThanks, mistery solved :-)
Posted by: juan at March 21, 2006 09:55 AM