Rumsfeld:‘I Haven't Even Attempted’ To Follow What’s Going On In Iraq, Too Busy ‘Arranging My Papers

[babylonsister]

http://thinkprogress.org/2007/09/15/rumsfeld-fox-interview/

Rumsfeld: ‘I Have Not Even Attempted’ To Follow What’s Going On In Iraq, Too Busy ‘Arranging My Papers’

In an interview with Fox News last night, former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld — one of the key architects of the Iraq disaster — was asked whether he currently “pays attention to specifics about what’s going on day to day in Iraq.”

Rumsfeld responded by claiming it’s impossible to follow events when you’re “on the outside.” He then added that he doesn’t have time to follow what’s going on in Iraq because he’s too busy with administrative tasks:

I’ve been very busy doing a series of things: setting up an office and hiring staff, arranging my papers to give to the Library of Congress, setting up a new foundation…

Rusmfeld re-emphasized the point, concluding his answer by stating: “So I’ve been busy doing those kinds of things and I have not even attempted stay as current as one would if you were in the government, constantly seeing all the intelligence and information.” Watch it at link~

The Hoover Institution recently announced that Rumsfeld would join the think tank as an “ideology and terror expert.” Rumsfeld has previously announced he is working on setting up a new foundation for the next generation of Donald Rumsfelds to study and grow. He is also in the process of authoring a book and was reportedly shopping it around in the hopes of receiving a “large cash advance.”

Book publishers had expressed “tepid interest” in a Rumsfeld memoir that talked about his six years under Bush. The New York Post reported Rumsfeld was re-tooling the book, and “he now plans to make it a full-blown autobiography rather than simply a treatment of his six years in the cabinet.” Asked if he was writing a book, Rumsfeld told Fox News:

I might. I’m thinking about it. A lot of people are urging me to do it. I’ve not made a decision. If I did, it would not be a quick-and-dirty thing, and the money from it, I would put into the foundation that I’ve just established — in the process of establishing.

It would probably be a memoir that would run the full span, back through the Depression and World War II and my life as opposed to the last 15 minutes.

Rumsfeld has too many things on his plate to worry about the catastrophe he helped create in Iraq.

[liberalmuse]

1. Yeah, I think that's aways been the case...

thus explaining why Iraq is a complete disaster. Any think tank that would hire him should be reclassified as "cess pool".

[Graybeard]

2. Yeah, if you don't "arrange" them right the shredder clogs up.

...also he wants a memoir that would run the full span, back through the Depression and World War II...has he decided on what actor he wants to play him in the three-hour, super blockbuster biopic?

[hisownpetard]

3. Methinks he doth protest too much. n/t

[SoCalDem]

4. Why am I reminded of this??

[babylonsister]

7. Where do you FIND them?

:rofl:

[SoCalDem]

14. all over the place.. i just love these little weird things

:)

[frogcycle]

5. he might as well have said

"I am a conscienceless monster"

but that would have been stating the obvious, I guess

[peacetalksforall]

6. Put this in your memory if someone asks you about the Hoover Institution

" ... Rumsfeld would join the think tank as an “ideology and terror expert."

Ideology = death destruction deceit denial of trial or rights lies torment torture war toys avian flu

Terror expert = terrozing Iraq and the U.S.

You've led a memorable life, Mr. Rumsfeld.

The world will long remember you whether you write a book or not.

[Felinity]

8. Shouldn't he be tending to the deck chairs first?

Seems like the boat has sprung a few leaks. No takers on the memoir? With all that fiction?


Damn!

[DemGa]

9. I think that's pretty much a "known unknown"

The criminal incuriosity of Bushco.

[Olney Blue]

10. If he would sing about his real opinion of the chimp....

that would sell.

[Major Hogwash]

How often does he need to check in how bad his catastrophic clusterfuck is going anyway?

I'd say that Rumsfeld probably isn't reading too many newspapers these days either.
He's too busy trying to count all the money he made from investing in military hardware stock and oil shares in 2001.

[babylonsister]

12. And pharmaceuticals:

http://www.organicconsumers.org/Corp/anthrax.cfm

Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld is one of two Bush cabinet members who
is a former drug company executive. Rumsfeld led Searle, now Pharmacia, from
1977 to 1985, while Mitch Daniels, the director of the Office of Management
and Budget, was a top executive at Eli Lilly. Top officials from drug maker
Merck and the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America also sat
on advisory committees shaping the administration's health care policies,
including its virulent opposition to regulating prescription medicine
prices.

[daninthemoon]

11. Absolutely DISGUSTING. Arranging his papers read: getting

ready to cash in, just like bushler has said he intends to do, just like darth cheney has already done. These are some of the worst people the planet has ever spawned. Callous and unconscionable don't even come close. They have committed crimes against humanity solely for profit. Shame on any college that would link itself to any of these evil bastards.

[tabasco]

13. Rumsfeld has complete disregard for the fungible military.

Rumsfeld is on record saying military personnel are fungible, i.e., something easily replaced, bulk goods, nothing unique. Rumsfeld also said the 11 million draftees during the Vietnam war "added no value, no advantage, really, to the United States armed services."

Rumsfeld is a war criminal who cares nothing for our dead and maimed troops, let alone the dead Iraqis. The Bush / Cheney oil mafia launched an unnecessary war for corporate profits and they must be punished.