Rumsfeld slams Obama on Syria, calls him weakest president in his lifetime

[kpete]

This actually makes me feel good about Obama, kp



Rumsfeld slams Obama on Syria, calls him weakest president in his lifetime


Deriding President Barack Obama as the weakest president "in my adult lifetime," former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld called on the White House on Tuesday to fish or cut bait in Syria.

Rumsfeld said there could be no middle ground in Syria: "You either ought to change the regime, or you ought to do nothing," he said during a question-and-answer session after a lecture at the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Museum in Grand Rapids, Mich.

In his customarily colorful way, Rumsfeld, 81, picked away at Obama for declaring last week that any U.S. response to Syria's alleged use of chemical weapons against its own people wouldn't target President Bashar Assad.

"Why would you go in and fire a shot across the bow?" asked Rumsfeld, who served as Ford's defense secretary during the 1970s and again as head of President George W. Bush's Pentagon during the planning for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan in the early 2000s.

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[Jefferson23]

1. Says the war monger, criminal serial liar, still loose on the streets.

[HardTimes99]

16. 2-time loser also (Afghanistan and Iraq) - that's a pretty impressive won-loss

record.

We didn't realize we'd been defeated by a rag-tag body of irregulars in Afghanistan until after Rumsfeld had stepped down. Even so, I think he deserves full credit for the loss there.

[Jefferson23]

22. He perpetuated a nightmare and he is off scott free, which still makes me crazy. Who

is up next to speak in support of a strike, David Addington? Sure, go ahead and strike..fuck that
thing referred to as international law...we are the USA!!

[KoKo]

2. Nah...it's the same old PNAC/Cheney/Rummy/Rice Thingy....

Nothing new here to see. Blech.

[NuclearDem]

3. Go fuck yourself Rumsfeld.

That guy must have some enormous, gold-encrusted titanium balls if he thinks anyone wants him to open his shit-spewing lying face hole ever again, never mind on war in the Middle East.

Can't he just count himself lucky he isn't sitting in a very tiny cell in the Hague and just shut the fuck up?!

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

4. Whatever Rumsfeld says ought to be done, is exactly the wrong thing to do.

[avaistheone1]

13. Sound advice imo

[polichick]

5. How did we get to the place where war criminals voice their opinions in the news?

[SammyWinstonJack]

14. Started with 'impeachment off the table' continued with 'looking forward'

ended with 'total immunity for the bush administration'.

So will the repugs be so forgiving with regard to Obama bombing Syria, even if they vote to allow it?

[Supersedeas]

18. as long as the defense contractors cash-in afterwards, neither party will complain

I like your three steo program: "off the table" - "looking forward" - "total immunity"

Eric Holder might have been right about us you know. We are a nation of cowards.

[Gravitycollapse]

17. How long has Henry Kissinger been granting interviews?

[BeyondGeography]

6. Rumseld is a sorry asshole, and that's a known known

[spanone]

7. hey rummy, as your warring pal cheney would say, go fuck yourself.

[Thinkingabout]

8. Thank goodness he is gone, don't think he well be back anytime soon.

[defacto7]

9. Looks like news as entertainment still pays.

Hey Rummy? Why don't you go hunting or something. Just try not to shoot someone by mistake. Oh wait? You've done that some hundred thousand times now haven't you? Hmmm, looks like you should get out of the killing advice business.

[SummerSnow]

10. Rumpelstiltskin needs to stfu and turn himself in

[applegrove]

11. As Jon Stewart said tonight about resurgent

neocons “SHUT THE FUCK UP“

[DevonRex]

12. How nice something makes you feel good about Obama.

[struggle4progress]

15. ... who? .... oh, him ... never mind ...

[LearningCurve]

19. He must have loved Bush 43's forceful response to the Russian invasion of Georgia

I forget how that was handled, but I'm sure there was no vacillating or weakness shown.

[leftyladyfrommo]

20. Talk about a super sized ego.

I can't believe that he even has the nerve to speak on this issue considering his past horrible judgements on Irag and Afghanistan.

I wish he and Cheney would just go away. Nobody wants to hear them anymore.

[bemildred]

21. And it's all your doing, Don, your dumb ass wars. nt