The Deeper Reality Behind Rumsfeld's Resignation By Chris Floyd

[Jcrowley]

The Deeper Reality Behind Rumsfeld's Resignation

By Chris Floyd

11/09/06 "Information Clearing House" -- -- As Don Rumsfeld is tossed overboard by the panicky Bushes (who value loyalty to themselves above all other virtues but never, ever, practice it toward others; there will be many more bodies left behind as the Family rallies to clean up Junior's mess again), Steve Gilliard steps in below to remind us that what we are actually dealing with here is not politics, not some Beltway horse race, or some idiotic media game of "who's up, who's down." The issue is mass murder -- thousands of Americans, hundreds of thousands of Iraqis -- and human suffering beyond imagining for millions more.

This is the reality. This is what really matters about Rumsfeld and the other architects of the war crime in Iraq. And although all the talk about the election's political ramifications for the Bush Administration is entertaining and diverting, as most gossip is, and not without some importance, on the most essential level it is a moral obscenity.

For when Bush opens his mouth, clotted bits of corpseflesh tumble out; when he walks, he wades through pools of human blood. And behind him, skittering and scooting in the blood-slick on their hands and knees, come all his ministers, handlers and toadies, come all the media sycophants who eagerly peddled his lies, come all the war profiteers who fill their bank vaults with hacked limbs, blown guts, crushed heads and mounds of viscera -- their treasure, their prize. Are we really supposed to be concerned about the political standing of such wretches? Should we not be outraged that they are allowed to walk among free people, much less exercise power and dominion over the nation? Why do they have any "political standing" at all?

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article15553.htm

[Fridays Child]

1. k/r

Artful Goddess

[LibertyorDeath]

2. Thanks Jcrowley

Rec!

[Quantess]

3. Well written! K&R!

[kickysnana]

4. kick

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[countmyvote4real]

5. Very sobering and worth reading the entire piece.

It's not that long. Click the link now.

[DianaForRussFeingold]

6. When in the course of human events, Wesley Clark On Their 5 Year Plan

:patriot: When in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for a people to petition for redress against the political body that oppresses them and to assume among their rightful powers to which the laws of nature and of nature’s God entitle them, a decent respect to the underlying letter and spirit of the Constitution of the United States requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to seek remedy and reparations for injustices done against them, yet in their name. K&R!! Thank you! General Wesley Clark's call to stop the Bush administration from destroying the constitutional rights and unfounded war in Iraq. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a6A0dG9mtno :kick:

[Laelth]

7. Powerful and visceral.

That essay is superbly written and far too true to be read comfortably.

k&r

-Laelth

[rodeodance]

8. "clotted bits of corpseflesh tumble out; " yuk yuk

[Karenina]

9. The visual...

[rodeodance]

10. "Not sure Iraq had anyting to do with loting the elections"

\The new WH talking point: "Not sure Iraq had anyting to do with loting the elections"
Both Bush---and Snow have said this.



http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article15553.htm

The Deeper Reality Behind Rumsfeld's Resignation

By Chris Floyd

11/09/06 "Information Clearing House" -- -- As Don Rumsfeld is tossed overboard by the panicky Bushes (who value loyalty to themselves above all other virtues but never, ever, practice it toward others; there will be many more bodies left behind as the Family rallies to clean up Junior's mess again), Steve Gilliard steps in below to remind us that what we are actually dealing with here is not politics, not some Beltway horse race, or some idiotic media game of "who's up, who's down." The issue is mass murder -- thousands of Americans, hundreds of thousands of Iraqis -- and human suffering beyond imagining for millions more.


.......Now, as I watch Bush fumble his way to not understanding that his war is over, I can only hope, no pray, that someone forgives us for letting these fools kill so many innocent people..

[pberq]

11. War Crimes Suit Prepared against Rumsfeld

http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=06/11/09/1444246

Thursday, November 9th, 2006
War Crimes Suit Prepared against Rumsfeld

. . .AMY GOODMAN: Michael Ratner joins us in our studio here in New York. Former CIA analyst Mel Goodman and journalist Bob Parry are still in Washington. Michael, why are you headed to Germany in the next few days?

MICHAEL RATNER: Thank you for having me on this issue, Amy. One of the shocking things really so far about the coverage of Rumsfeld’s resignation, there's not a word in any of it about torture. And here, Rumsfeld is one of the architects of the torture program of the United States. I mean, we have those sheets of paper that went to Guantanamo that talk about using dogs and stripping people and hooding people. We have one of our clients, al-Qahtani, who was in Guantanamo. Rumsfeld essentially supervised that entire interrogation, one of the worst interrogations that happened at Guantanamo. He actually authorized a rendition, a fake rendition of al-Qahtani, where flew him -- put a -- blindfolded him, sedated him, put him on an airplane and flew him back to Guantanamo, so he thought he would be in some torture country. So here you have Rumsfeld, one of the architects, not a word about it.

. . .

JUAN GONZALEZ: But then, what would you have to do? You would have to re-file the case before -- is it before an international court in Germany or in German courts?

MICHAEL RATNER: We’re actually going on Tuesday. We’re re-filing it in German courts under their law, which is universal jurisdiction, which basically says a torturer is essentially an enemy of all humankind and can be brought to justice wherever they’re found. So we are going to Germany to try and get them to begin an investigation of Rumsfeld for really a left-out part of this picture, which is the United States has essentially been on the page of torture now for five years.

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12. Powerful words light up the stark reality.

Well done!

[acmavm]

13. Without people like Floyd, the bush** propagandist's would still

be floating around the line "things are going well" or "we've made a lot of progress" or even "look at how far we've come, the Iraqis voted..."

[yurbud]

14. and like mafia crime families, goal was not idealism but theft of oil

and our tax dollars to go in pocket of cronies.