Wow, talk about low standards!

[ProSense]

Rumsfeld now fellow at Hoover Institution

Fri Sep 7, 8:39 PM ET

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Former U.S. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld has joined the Hoover Institution at Stanford University as a visiting fellow and will serve on a task force focused on issues pertaining to ideology and terror, the California think tank said on Friday.

Rumsfeld was one of the top Bush administration officials involved in responding to the September 11 attacks and subsequent wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.

Democrats critical of the Republican administration and some former high-ranking military officers charged his leadership of the Pentagon contributed to a botched occupation of Iraq. He resigned as secretary of defense in November 2006.

Rumsfeld's experience will assist the Hoover Institution's research into terrorism, said institute director John Raisian.

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[aquart]

1. Pay off.

[whoneedstickets]

2. Its amazing all the goodies that can come your way as a conservative intellectual...

..as oxymoronic as that term may be, towing the GOP, corporate line can get you far with the Hoover, the Hudson, AEI, etc...

[Wiley50]

3. Hoover, How Appropriate! Rumsfeld Sucks! n/t

[mindwalker_i]

4. Exactly...

Does Rummy becomming a fellow at Hoover mean he's giving Lewinsky a run for her money?

-mwalker

[valerief]

6. LOL! Perfect! nt

[catnhatnh]

5. Yep...

...it's like appointing Hannibal Lecter to the Culinary Institute of America...

[QueenOfCalifornia]

8. What's wrong with that?

A census taker once tried to test me. I ate his liver with some fava beans and a nice chianti.

(I hate census takers... too many questions.)

[MiniMe]

7. Why would anybody want to visit that fellow?

[me b zola]

11. Cheney thinks he's a 'good fellow'

;)

[QueenOfCalifornia]

9. I hear that

he could maybe get a job at Circuit City - If he doesn't mind making less than $10 an hour....

[krispos42]

10. Mental note: With the Hoover Institute, every day is 'opposite day' n/t

[onethatcares]

12. come on now,

the guy made a few mistakes and you're all ready to throw pies at him or worse. Sheesh, he needs a place to feel needed at, a place to sit with like minded souls and re hash world events while sipping glacier water and drooling on the table cloth.