1) From Workers.org (a commie-looking site, so be careful) the following cutting comes to us sourced in an article reporting on Rumsfeld having torture-related criminal complaints filed against him in France:
Donald Rumsfeld reportedly fled France Oct. 26 after four human rights groups filed a criminal complaint against the former U.S. secretary of defense for “ordering and authorizing torture†of prisoners at Guantánamo Bay and Abu Ghraib.
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Rumsfeld was spirited away from the U.S. Embassy in Paris following a talk sponsored by Foreign Policy magazine. Hundreds of anti-war activists were outside waiting to confront the former Bush administration top gun. Rumsfeld can no longer claim immunity from prosecution as a government official since resigning his post last year.
The International Federation of Human Rights, the Center for Constitutional Rights, the European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights and the French League for Human Rights filed the complaint with the Paris prosecutor before the Tribunal de Grande Istance.
Will Rummy be a man and face the charges? Well, he's already fled France--what do you think?
2) The following few snippets come to us from a WashingtonPost.com article that chronicles some memos that Rummy wrote revealing, among other things why Arabs are lazy and like to hire foreigners:
In a series of internal musings and memos to his staff, then-Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld argued that Muslims avoid "physical labor" and wrote of the need to "keep elevating the threat," "link Iraq to Iran" and develop "bumper sticker statements" to rally public support for an increasingly unpopular war.
The memos, often referred to as "snowflakes," shed light on Rumsfeld's brusque management style and on his efforts to address key challenges during his tenure as Pentagon chief. Spanning from 2002 to shortly after his resignation following the 2006 congressional elections, a sampling of his trademark missives obtained yesterday reveals a defense secretary disdainful of media criticism and driven to reshape public opinion of the Iraq war.
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In a 2004 memo on the deteriorating situation in Iraq, Rumsfeld concluded that the challenges there are "not unusual." Pessimistic news reports -- "our publics risk falling prey to the argument that all is lost" -- simply result from the wrong standards being applied, he wrote in one of the memos obtained by The Washington Post.
Under siege in April 2006, when a series of retired generals denounced him and called for his resignation in newspaper op-ed pieces, Rumsfeld produced a memo after a conference call with military analysts. "Talk about Somalia, the Philippines, etc. Make the American people realize they are surrounded in the world by violent extremists," he wrote.
People will "rally" to sacrifice, he noted after the meeting. "They are looking for leadership. Sacrifice = Victory."
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Neither Europe nor the United Nations understands the threat or the bigger picture, Rumsfeld complained in the same memo. He also lamented that oil wealth has at times detached Muslims "from the reality of the work, effort and investment that leads to wealth for the rest of the world. Too often Muslims are against physical labor, so they bring in Koreans and Pakistanis while their young people remain unemployed," he wrote. "An unemployed population is easy to recruit to radicalism."
Wow, when I first heard about that last bit, I almost thought Rummy was describing the American practice of hiring illegal immigrants. I mean, what with the obesity epidemic and falling average grades and the influx of Mexican labor, Rumsfeld might as have been describing Americans as being detached "from the reality of the work, effort and investment that leads to wealth for the rest of the world. Too often {Americans} are against physical labor, so they bring in {Mexicans} and {more Mexicans} while their young people remain unemployed..."
Pretty neat, huh? Good old Rummy! He's gone from US government, but certainly not forgotten!
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