Donald Rumsfeld Gets Absolutely Pummeled On Twitter For His 10th Anniversary Iraq War Tweet

[Adenoid_Hynkel]

Source: Mediaite

Today marks the tenth anniversary of the day the U.S. invaded Iraq under false pretenses and bad intelligence, as part of the neoconservative George W. Bush‘s Wilsonian adventurist foreign policy. Several hundred-thousand civilian and military lives later, many Americans are still unsure why we ever got involved… or why the president got away with such actions… or why the media was largely complicit in accepting the administration’s word.

But hey, you all should really show your respect and appreciation for the lovely Bush officials who got us tangled into that mess, says former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld. To celebrate(?) the tenth anniversary of his shining moment or whatever, Rumsfeld tweeted out the following:



Suffice it to say, Twitter users did not drop everything and salute the former Bush cabinet member. Instead, they expressed just how much they dislike him and the Iraq War, blasting off a flurry of negative responses. To wit:



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[iamthebandfanman]

1. Death liberated

around 125,000 of them... atleast the documented ones...
wish he was rotting in a jail cell for the rest of his miserable life.

[Nika]

2. Thanks, I checked this out, and gave him a tweet of my own.

[Electric Monk]

3. He belongs in The Hague right next to Bush and Cheney.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Criminal_Court

[magic59]

4. No one in the US will ever bring these war criminals to trial

So why don't other countries step up to the plate and indict Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Rice, and yes, Powell.

[xtraxritical]

41. They are wanted by the World Court for crimes against humanity and cannot safely leave the USA.

[SamReynolds]

45. They have.

[xtraxritical]

49. G W Bush went to Hati, any other examples?

[SamReynolds]

50. Let him keep traveling.

Eventually he'll find himself extradited to The Hague.

[Th1onein]

5. Thanks for posting this. The American people have woken up.

They're no longer "waking" up. They are wide eyed and bushy tailed.

And highly pissed off.

[awoke_in_2003]

22. Maybe in your little corner of the world

but the rest of the nation is fast asleep.

[Th1onein]

55. My corner only? Nah. Look at the last election.

Look at the Rethugs scrambling to rebrand their old ideas.

[Fearless]

6. Yikes!

He needs to just go away!

[SunSeeker]

7. "Blood-gargling Psychopath."

Couldn't have said it better myself. Thank you Rob Delaney, wherever you are.

[mopinko]

9. +1

[wordpix]

13. exactly, good turn of the phrase

[freshwest]

14. +1. I always think of John From Chicago's 'War Pigs' video when I hear Rummie's name. And his

insistence on doing some new form ocean sonar that was said to have killed marine life. Really loves death, he does.

[IthinkThereforeIAM]

17. +1

eom

[baldguy]

26. He didn't get the moniker "Rumsferatu"for nothing.

[hibbing]

28. criminal

Hi,
Yes, that was a good one. I am sure he sleeps peacefully every night along with all the rest of this cabal of war criminals.

Peace

[ColesCountyDem]

31. +1 n/t

[Arkana]

34. Yeah, this is pretty good.

[Bozita]

35. perfect!

[nolabear]

8. Welcome to democracy, Donnie. Where bullshit gets called.

[ck4829]

10. This December will be the 30th anniversary Rumsfeld met with Saddam

I wonder how he plans to tweet that.

[yourout]

11. At some point he will be meeting him again.

[wordpix]

12. grrrr I can't think of what I'd tweet that war criminal but I'm working on it

[Grassy Knoll]

15. Lying Piece Of Shit, Fuck Him and His Lying Boss. Eom.

[lunasun]

16. you 'd think he would be ashamed and laying low

sadistic and insane

[Mnemosyne]

20. He'd need a conscience to do that. nt

[Rosa Luxemburg]

18. The Rumsfeld creature should be jail!

[Mnemosyne]

19. War criminal tweet. nt

[Spitfire of ATJ]

21. Hey Rummy!!!

http://www.whiterosesociety.org/content/malloy/MalloyMemories/Rumsfeld_on_acid.mp3

[Apophis]

23. I put in my 2 cents.

I told him he should be in prison.

[Sophiegirl]

24. Me too!

And I rarely tweet anything!

Edit: I just quickly scrolled through the Twitter responses. Me thinks that a lower profile would be more appropriate for him. On the otherhand, those responses just show how much "the people" hate him.

Imagine if Bush, CHAINEY, or Rove tweeted that. The Internet would go down for a week or more.

[MynameisBlarney]

25. Heh.

[SamKnause]

27. Rumsfeld

Will he be peddling a book on TV like Bush and Cheney did ?

Disgusting evil people.

Look forward not backwards is a slap in the face.

President Obama interfering with the countries that wanted the Bush administration held accountable was despicable.

There is no justice in the U.S.

We have a two tier justice system that protects the criminals.

[xtraxritical]

42. He's already done a couple of them. I'm sure they were not best sellers.

[democrank]

29. Arrogant ass, that Rumsfeld.

He should be behind bars.

[tclambert]

30. What they deserve is a war crimes tribunal.

Followed by infinite prison terms. (By which I mean, keep them alive in prison as long as possible, then chain their coffins shut.)

[VA_Jill]

32. Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld....

the Asses of Evil.

I'm proud that Rummy was brought down by a National Guardsman in my son's outfit after his callous comment about "going to war with the army you have." Not that we should have been there in the first place!

[Paul E Ester]

33. It was all so complicated....3D chess

There are known knowns; there are things we know we know.
We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say, we know there are some things we do not know.
But there are also unknown unknowns – the ones we don’t know we don’t know.

We just don't know.

[xtraxritical]

43. Dr. Strangelove, eh?

[flying-skeleton]

36. And the Iraqis so wanna thank Rumsfeld in person

He really should make a trip there and visit the Iraqis in person on the street so that they can thank him in person !!

[xtraxritical]

44. Bush, Rumsfeld, Rice and more are wanted for crimes against humanity by the World Court.

None of the Bush gang can safely leave the USA.

[magical thyme]

37. I'd like to read the tweets, but haven't figured out how to use twitter

I joined 6 or so months ago and gave up in frustration after a couple hours. I did manage to create a single tweet back then.

(I've just discovered that it attracted a single follower who happens to have the same (unusual) name of a cousin I haven't seen since my teens....hmmmm? )

[magical thyme]

39. ha! just tweeted my 2nd. "if by deserve recognition and appreciation" you meant

"deserve to face a war tribunal at the Hague" then we agree.

[wordpix]

54. agree, the Hague's the kind of recognition BushCo does deserve

[JHB]

38. Don's celebrating with a big slice of yellow cake.

(to the chorus of Time Warp)

Let's do the cake walk again!
Let's do the cake walk again!

[DinahMoeHum]

46. "Shut the FUCK up, Donny. . .You're out of your element"

tweeted by "Patton Oswalt"

https://twitter.com/pattonoswalt/status/314086441795858432

[cbrer]

47. WOOHOO! We're Liberated!!!!

Shut the fuck up you conscience-less, egotistical, maniacal, short sighted, greedy bastard.

[MisterP]

48. you mean "the army you have, not the army you might want or wish to have at a later time"?

[spicegal]

51. Seriously, the hubris of Rumsfeld and Darth Cheney is really too much. Besides, I thought it was

the WMD, mushroom cloud, imminent threat, etc. If indeed liberation was the goal, it never our call to make.

[Glimmer of Hope]

52. He should stick to reality TV.

[Smilo]

53. The arrogance

of such an ignorant, boorish, inhumane little twerp is sickening.

[AsahinaKimi]

56. I replied to him.

https://twitter.com/AsahinaKimiko/status/315004231155318784