Rumsfeld Setting Up Service Foundation

[Solly Mack]

Rumsfeld Setting Up Service Foundation

WASHINGTON -- Now that he's out of government, former Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld is setting up a foundation to attract others to public service.

"His whole focus is getting this foundation organized," said Lawrence DiRita, once Rumsfeld's spokesman at the Pentagon and still authorized to speak for him. "He's deep into that."

While Rumsfeld did stints as an investment banker and pharmaceutical executive, the 75-year-old Republican spent most of his life in public service, including two separate tours as defense secretary, four terms representing Illinois in the House of Representatives and various other posts in four different GOP administrations.

In May, Rumsfeld visited some New York publishing houses and generated rumors in the publishing industry that he might be contemplating writing a memoir. But DiRita said he's undecided about that.

...Book or not, Rumsfeld intends to finance the foundation himself."



How positively wonderful!. A war criminal is setting up a foundation to attract others to be war criminals...er...attract others to... ah..."public service" - just like him. How fortunate that in America a war criminal is free to pursue such lofty endeavors.

[Donnachaidh]

1. He needs to be EXILED to a small island in antarctica

But first, plant his tush on a rail and give him a ride out of town.

[Solly Mack]

2. I'm OK with that

[stevedeshazer]

15. Antarctica is a continent, not a small island

And he shouldn't be exiled, he should be in PRISON.

But hey... C'est la vie !

[PA Democrat]

3. Dear God. If he was going to raise money for anything

it should be to help repair some of the damage that he's done to soldiers and their families.

[Solly Mack]

5. He'd have to care about them to do that

[SoCalDem]

4. Bob Allen needs a job..he's in the "service" business

:rofl:

[Nikki Stone1]

6. War Criminals R Us?

Or Terrorist Creation Association?

(We ought to have a contest to name the thing.)

[Solly Mack]

7. No kidding!

[Swamp Rat]

8. Rumsfeld School of Torture

[Solly Mack]

9. He looks like what he is...diseased

[IChing]

10. As President of his new foundation

[Swamp Rat]

11. Ah, Rumsferatu's Schutz-Staffel Büro (SSB)!

[Disturbed]

13. Rumsfeld is a War Criminal.

Here in the new Amerika he is a hero of the Reich Wing.

Rumsfeld Shouldn't be Fired, He Should be Indicted
by Matthew Rothschild

“Secretary Rumsfeld has publicly admitted that . . . he ordered an Iraqi national held in Camp Cropper, a high security detention center in Iraq, to be kept off the prison’s rolls and not presented to the International Committee of the Red Cross,” the report noted. The Geneva Conventions require countries to grant the Red Cross access to all detainees. “

http://www.commondreams.org/views06/0418-24.htm



Further Evidence Rumsfeld Implicated in War Crimes
Please read this important post by Marty Lederman, Army Confirms: Rumsfeld Authorized Criminal Conduct.

Here's a key section, but there's more:
The Army's charges against Jordan reflect the view, undoubtedly correct, that the use of forced nudity or intimidation with dogs against detainees subject to military control constitutes cruelty and maltreatment that Article 93 makes criminal. It doesn't matter whether they are or are not "torture," as such; nor does it matter whether the armed forces should be permitted to use such interrogation techniques: As things currently stand, they are unlawful, as even the Army now acknowledges.

But then how can we account for the actions of the Secretary of Defense and his close aides?

On November 27, 2002, Pentagon General Counsel William Haynes, following discussions with Deputy Secretary Wolfowitz, General Myers, and Doug Feith, informed the Secretary of Defense that forced nudity and the use of the fear of dogs to induce stress were lawful techniques, and he recommended that they be approved for use at Guantanamo.
(The lists of techniques to which Haynes was referring can be found in this memorandum.) On December 2, 2002, Secretary Rumsfeld approved those techniques for use at Guantanamo -- and subsequently those techniques were used on detainee Mohammed al-Qahtani.

In other words, the Secretary of Defense authorized criminal conduct.

...

Today's Army charge under UCMJ Article 93 against Lt. Col. Jordan -- for conduct that the SecDef actually authorized as to some detainees -- demonstrates that Rumsfeld approved of, and encouraged, violations of the criminal law.

http://www.discourse.net/archives/2006/04/further_evidence_rumsfeld_implicated_in_war_crimes.html

[IChing]

18. Yes he is, I posted so many articles on his criminality over the years

I might have to take some aspartame.

[stevedeshazer]

12. HE'S NOT OUT OF GOVERNMENT

He still runs the Pentagon:

http://thinkprogress.org/2007/01/25/rumsfeld-consultant/

[Solly Mack]

16. True true

[w8liftinglady]

14. Fucking America...the new definition of Public service.

[Solly Mack]

19. they truly have redefined it...

in fact, they have elevated corrupting words and concepts to an art form

[BlooInBloo]

17. The republican bench is pretty much shot - needs to reload with orgs like this.