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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsRumsfeld Documentary Reveals What an Unaccountable Slippery Bastard He Is
Director Errol Morris's 'The Unknown Unknown' shows Rumsfeld as unapologetic. So what do we know now that we didnt after documentarian Errol Morriss 100-minute Q&A with Donald I Dont Do Quagmires Rumsfeld in The Unknown Known? Only that the former U.S. secretary of defense is still a master strategist of evasion, contradiction, misdirection and malapropism.
As a footnote, heres what we do know to date about that dirty little Iraq War that Rummy, the George W. Bush White House and their nincompoop Pentagon neo-cons cooked up and spoon fed to the omnivorous American public: more than 4400 U.S. military deaths and 32,000 wounded, at least 100,000 to as many as 500,000 Iraqi fatalities, millions more displaced, and an estimated price tag of $3 trillion, give or take a few hundred billion.
Yet like most of the questions that Morris tossesgentlyat his subject, any such factual horrors are sidestepped, parried and danced around by a fitfully nimble Rumsfeld. Relaxed, nattily dressed and imperiously self-assured as ever, Morris hollow yet overstuffed man does his imitation of Hogans Heroes Sgt. Schultz (I know nothing, nothing) while implausibly denying personal culpability for any stink that blew back from the Iraq War, whether the phony Weapons of Mass Destruction raison dêtre, prisoner torture or the fictitious links between Saddam Hussein and the 9/11 World Trade Center attacks.
In his Oscar-winning The Fog of War, Morris at least got Lyndon Johnson-era Defense Secretary Robert McNamara to shoulder some of blame for the Vietnam War quagmire. But Rumsfeld is impishly unapologetic, even as his own words are shot down by Morris juxtapositions with TV news footage culled from the run-up and catastrophic letdown to the 2003 Iraq invasion and subsequent U.S. occupation. Yet its clear that Morris mission isnt to catch his subject in a Captain Queeg-style meltdown that would cause Rummy to shout Good gracious or Henny-penny and storm off the set.
As a footnote, heres what we do know to date about that dirty little Iraq War that Rummy, the George W. Bush White House and their nincompoop Pentagon neo-cons cooked up and spoon fed to the omnivorous American public: more than 4400 U.S. military deaths and 32,000 wounded, at least 100,000 to as many as 500,000 Iraqi fatalities, millions more displaced, and an estimated price tag of $3 trillion, give or take a few hundred billion.
Yet like most of the questions that Morris tossesgentlyat his subject, any such factual horrors are sidestepped, parried and danced around by a fitfully nimble Rumsfeld. Relaxed, nattily dressed and imperiously self-assured as ever, Morris hollow yet overstuffed man does his imitation of Hogans Heroes Sgt. Schultz (I know nothing, nothing) while implausibly denying personal culpability for any stink that blew back from the Iraq War, whether the phony Weapons of Mass Destruction raison dêtre, prisoner torture or the fictitious links between Saddam Hussein and the 9/11 World Trade Center attacks.
In his Oscar-winning The Fog of War, Morris at least got Lyndon Johnson-era Defense Secretary Robert McNamara to shoulder some of blame for the Vietnam War quagmire. But Rumsfeld is impishly unapologetic, even as his own words are shot down by Morris juxtapositions with TV news footage culled from the run-up and catastrophic letdown to the 2003 Iraq invasion and subsequent U.S. occupation. Yet its clear that Morris mission isnt to catch his subject in a Captain Queeg-style meltdown that would cause Rummy to shout Good gracious or Henny-penny and storm off the set.
http://www.alternet.org/media/10-years-after-iraq-disaster-rumsfeld-documentary-reveals-what-unaccountable-slippery-bastard
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Rumsfeld Documentary Reveals What an Unaccountable Slippery Bastard He Is (Original Post)
madokie
Apr 2014
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Ichingcarpenter
(36,988 posts)1. I'm sure it will be shown on all the major networks
Right after 'dancing with stars'
Sounds great, hope its on youtube soon.
hobbit709
(41,694 posts)2. Along with Aspartame and Tamiflu