Rumsfeld Kept 9-11 Souvenir

[Paragon]

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=514&e=3&u=/ap/20040312/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/fbi_sept_11_rubble

WASHINGTON - The Justice Department investigation that criticized FBI agents for taking souvenirs from the World Trade Center site also found that Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld and a high-ranking FBI official kept items from the Sept. 11 attack scenes.

The final investigatory report said the Justice Department inspector general confirmed Rumsfeld "has a piece of the airplane that flew into the Pentagon." The Associated Press obtained a copy of the report Friday.

Investigators learned Rumsfeld had the airplane part after an FBI agent saw a television interview in which the defense secretary was "holding up pieces of building from the WTC and the Pentagon, saying he kept those items on his desk to remember the terrorist attacks."

A Pentagon spokesman did not immediately respond Friday afternoon for comment...

[proud patriot]

1. Fire his sick ass

:grr:

[Lindacooks]

17. And please, rate that article

so as many people as possible can see it.

[MaineDem]

2. Scum!

He is definitely scum!

THis is sick.

[flamingyouth]

3. Classy

What a twisted, sorry old piece of shit.

[joeunderdog]

58. He got a piece of all of us after 911. n/t

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

4. A political/religious artifact?

[Just Me]

5. Good, gawd, man!!!

Wow,...I just had a vision of Rummy throwing a laptop out the window after reading this little yahoo story. Hee hee hee.

[htuttle]

6. Wonder if there's a piece sitting next to Geronimo's skull, too?

Where ever that is...

[Rex]

7. So that's where the black box went!

nt

[proud patriot]

8. Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha !

Good one :evilgrin:

[utopian]

9. He should be charged

Like anyone else.

[Jax]

10. Disgusting, typical, unbelievable, sickening

I am running out of 'despicable' adjectives to describe these thugs in this administration.

It is always, "do as we say not as we do" when it comes to obeying the law or doing the right thing with the b*sh scum.

Momentous of their utter failure to stop that horror when they knew it was coming...:puke:

Jax

[Paragon]

11. Companion freeper thread:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1096617/posts

[Paragon]

16. LOL -- thread's already pulled

Freeps don't like the truth.

[Katherine2]

19. They also pulled

the thread about Bush not wanting to walk on the dirt yesterday at the 9/11 memorial groundbreaking. They said it was posted by a troll. How pathetic.

[Paragon]

22. :)

[Just Me]

38. Too late,...I saw it,...and it cruelly desecrated all victims of 9/11 *eom

[dolo amber]

39. Umm...the thread works for me...

(as of 9:04pm)...full of typical freeper rubbish..."they SHOULD keep these things, to remind them they have a job to do" blah blah etc...:eyes:

I must say however this one is my favorite:

To: ClintonHater
I hope I don't sound insensitive when I suggest that these "survivor families" need to STFU.
4 posted on 03/12/2004 3:44:54 PM PST by billorites (freepo ergo sum)
< Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies >

:wow: :wtf:

[Paragon]

48. This is now the headline story on Drudge

It was down and now it's back up, but "zotted" - meaning they think they caught a troll and are having a little freeper effigy.

But they're fucking stupid, because with every post, they're actually kicking the story up and up on their site. Drudge seems to think it's an important story -- if you post it on FR, it's censored.

Sad, sad bunch of little people.

[louis-t]

20. Y'know, everytime I see one of their threads

I look for any hint of intelligence. NOTHING. I look for some bit of reasonable, logical thinking. NOTHING. All they've got against Kerry is he 'looks' French? Oh, I see, we shouldn't elect-in fact we must HATE someone because he 'looks' French. I can't figure out the post calling Dumsfeld's 'known unknowns' speech poetry.

edit to remark if it wasn't 12 degrees here, I would go out and hose myself off.

[arcane1]

29. pulling the thread WAS "reasonable, logical thinking"

because their admins KNOW they can't let the truth be shared with the readers. They all have to believe that chocolate rations are up by 20 grammes this quarter...

stupid freeps

[Carni]

47. There is NO brain matter over in freeperland

A lot of praying and "Patriot bump-ing!" going on over bush, but little else.

They are pathetic, brainwashed, odious misfits.

[LiberalFighter]

61. Limbaugh made that remark a while back too...

when Dean was the front runner.

[daleo]

12. He uses it for black magic

To get in contact with Hitler, Attila, that sort of thing.

[stevedeshazer]

13. Haven't heard much from Rummy lately

This gang just can't shoot straight, can they?

[DulceDecorum]

32. Genuine Rumsfeld quote

Following is the transcript of U.S. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld's news conference on the current status of the search for people involved in the air attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon.

RUMSFELD: ... two or three points.
First, we currently believe and are certainly hopeful that the number of casualties being reported in the press is high. As you know from your own observation out there, the work is still going forward, and we won't know for some time precise numbers. But from everything that we currently know, the estimate that's been widely reported is considerably high, and we certainly pray that that's the case.
<snip>
QUESTION: Mr. Secretary, the casualty number you refer to, I assume, is the 800 number that was provided by the Arlington County Fire Department...
RUMSFELD: It is.
QUESTION: ... and you say it's considerably high. We've heard from the military...
RUMSFELD: I said I hope and pray that it is.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/nation/transcripts/rumsfeldtext_091201.html

[stevedeshazer]

40. And there you have it

A faith-based death estimate while Rummy is collecting souvenirs.

Thanks, that's a useful reminder.

[uhhuh]

54. There's a lot more from that transcript

More from Rummie:

"One of the other effects has been--it has had an effect on how people handle classified information. And it seems to me, that it's important to underline that when people deal with intelligence information and make it available to people who are not cleared for that classified information, the effect is to reduce the chances that the United States government has to track down and deal with the people who have perpetrated the attacks on the United States and killed so many Americans.


Second, when classified information dealing with operations is provided to people who are not cleared for that classified information, the inevitable effect is that the lives of men and women in uniform are put at risk, because they are the ones who will be carrying out those prospective operations.


This is a message really for all the men and women in the United States government who have access to classified information. It seems to me that when they see learn of someone who is handling classified information in a way that is going to put the lives of the men and women in uniform at risk, they ought to register exactly what kind of a person that is. It's a person who's willing to violate federal criminal statutes, and willing to frustrate our efforts to track down and deal with terrorists, and willing to reveal information that could cost the lives of men and women in uniform."

I'm sure Rummy can't wait until the Plame leaker is caught, huh?

[uhhuh]

56. And this:

"The purpose of terrorism is to terrorize. It is to alter behavior. It is to force people who believe in freedom to be less free by altering their behavior and redressing a balance between freedom and security. Anyone who has ever been in a war zone, as I know most of you have, you know that when you walk out of a building you don't walk out with your head high whistling. You look around the corner and see what's out there. That's not the way Americans live, and it's not the way we want to live."

Well Rummie, your guys are the ones who pushed through the Patriot Act, and concieved of TIA, so who are the terrorists again?

What color is the alert today, and where can I get more duct tape?

[stevedeshazer]

59. Classic RummySpeak

You just can't make this stuff up. I don't know if I'll ever be able to read fiction again, because the damned truth is so much stranger.

[leftchick]

55. you will see plenty of him on Sunday...

along with condi and the rest celebrating the one year anniversary of the Iraq liberation.... :puke:

[stevedeshazer]

60. Yikes

I'm kind of looking forward to it. It's like a runaway freight train on steroids.

Condi, Rummy, and BigTime, you got some explainin' to do.

[arcane1]

14. 9/11 was the BEST THING to happen to these thugs

of course they would want a memento :grr:

that's what? Reason #1,385,692 to hate them? Or is it 1,385,693? I can't keep track anymore


these people are fucking ghouls :puke:

[Thor_MN]

26. I think I said that for the first time on 9/12/2001

I phrased it that it was the best thing to happen to the Bush family since the Gulf War.

It totally pissed off one of my college friends.


Funny thing is that now he is starting to agree with me.

[arcane1]

30. sometimes the truth stings...

and it takes a little while to get past that...

kudos to your friend

[NewHampster]

15. Can he sell it on eBay

After he gets drawn and quartered.

:nuke:

[mike1963]

18. If this is true, he is guilty of a federal crime. I don't have a citation

handy, but I'm pretty sure it's unlawful to take and/or keep any piece of an aircraft involved in a crash.

[Poiuyt]

23. Can we make a Citizen's Arrest?

[catzies]

21. This is from the end of that article

"A New York woman suing local authorities for alleged negligence in the Sept. 11 attacks said any souvenir-taking by officials was part of a larger failure to keep enough items, like steel beams, as evidence.

"Everybody has things that they probably should not have from the World Trade Center site," said Sally Regenhard, whose firefighter son died in the towers. 'I'm sure there's probably all kinds of people that have all kinds of artifacts."'"
***************************************************
They practically set a land-speed record for how quickly they cleaned up Ground Zero. Among other things, wasn't the steel sold to China, and the concrete sent to a landfill in Long Island?

She calls them artifacts. I call them evidence. :mad:

[uhhuh]

25. I'M sure rummy calls them trophies.

[seventhson]

24. It's like after Princeton wins the big game:keep part of the goal posts

Him and his spook Princeton chum Nader probably have the pieces to commemorate their trifecta and the big game of 2000.

[ElementaryPenguin]

27. Herr Scumsfeld is one sick old fuck!! Probably has some memento

from the Reichstag fire, too!! Never seen a bigger Nazi wannabe in my life than that disgusting human embodiment of pond scum!

:puke:
:argh:
:mad:

[alittlelark]

37. Perle in a bigger Nazi wannabe

in my opinion;-)

[truthisfreedom]

28. no, he actually keeps them on his desk to remind him who he's working for.

the scum who set up the attacks, made the arrangements for bushco to empty our treasury and spread corruption throughout our once-great government and country.

[Nostradammit]

31. This is disinfo -

There was no plane that hit the Pentagon. Maybe he's got a piece of the missle that hit the Pentagon.

[Nicholas D Wolfwood]

69. Welcome to DU!!!

The tarring and feathering of scumbags like Rumsfeld is only one of many great public services we have here!! Enjoy!! :toast: :grouphug: :yourock:

[kskiska]

33. Maybe he's got a piece of Barbara Olson

encased in plexiglass on his desk.

[MO_Dem]

34. I bet Boosh has some "souvenirs"

from one or all of the sites, too. I wish some gutsy reporter would ask Duhbya if he has anything from any of the 9/ll attack sites!

[PaDUer]

42. Ya, and probably

someone's dust...these people are sickening!!

[Manix]

35. Rumsfeld is a despicable human being!

nt

[monobrau]

36. Sick Bastard

This really pisses me off. My dad died in a small plane crash this past year. If I found that some ghoul had kept a part of his accident scene for a souvenier, I'd punch his lights out, and gladly take my case before a jury.

[Zhade]

50. Sorry for your loss.

I can only imagine the anger. Skeletor is one sick individual.

[cliss]

41. I believe that Rumsfeld took it as a "totem"

or as a memento of an event that he helped create. I'm saying this in all sincerity: I believe that Donald Rumsfeld gets excited when the topic is about death and dying.

I've seen him testify about the war in Iraq. I've watched him on talk shows, giving an update on what's happening over there. As he describes the carnage and mayhem, the corners of his mouth turn upward, ever so slightly. His eyes get an odd twinkle.

With a sweep of his hand, he reassures the interviewer that "we're killing many more of them than they are killing Americans."

Under his expensive Armani suit and hand-sewn silk tie, his heart starts to beat faster as he thinks about more innocent people being sent to the pearly gates. It's the ultimate power trip: to be able to settle peoples' fates permanently.

The man is sick. That is why he took a piece of the airplane wreckage from the Twin towers. He wanted it to remind him of the one thing that he loves more than any other: death.

[louis-t]

68. Remember on the night before attacking Iraq...

Rummy was addressing the troops. He was so excited and pleased with himself. Big ear to ear grin and pounding on the podium with his open hand as the troops cheered. Absolutely drunk with power. He just, plain, loves war.

[pompano]

43. Probably using...

it for a paper weight to hold down copies of Shrub’s cronies corporate contracts. Thats all he needs to be reminded of anyway...well isn’t it?

[efhmc]

44. Just when I think that I cannot be any more disgusted with this group,

they prove me wrong again.

[leesa]

45. A memento of their greatest operation to date?

[rooboy]

46. Yep. Rummy's equivalent of getting the "game ball" n/t

[Minstrel Boy]

49. "You break it, you bought it"

Seems reasonable to me.

[Zero Gravitas]

51. that's sick

Why would anyone want to keep a pice of one of those planes? What a sicko!

"saying he kept those items on his desk to remember the terrorist attacks"

He might forget that it happened otherwise? Riiight.

[TankLV]

52. So tell us again why us democrats have an "irrational" hatred for

bunkerboy & his gang of thugs?

I think our "hate" is prettly well earned, deserved and righteous.

[BiggJawn]

53. Bet that's not ALL he has..

I'd bet the sick fuck has some body parts at home. Probably Atta's face in a jar.

But OUR guy got a blow job, so that makes *US* Evil!

[lebkuchen]

57. A little "something" for those "Where were you when...?" moments

It will be hard to top your histrionics, Donnie, except maybe for the Chimp sitting on his duff in a 4th grade chair reading goat books while the second tower was being hit.

[Redleg]

62. Sick f@ck.

Rummy is a real piece of work. What a slime ball.

[DinahMoeHum]

63. Well, did you really expect otherwise from these people?

They've already shown (through the campaign ads) that they'll suck the nutsacks of a dead soldier, cop, or firefighter for votes.

I would not like to be in their shoes come judgement day.


:evilfrown:

[Tracer]

64. The dirty ghoul.

eom

[eileen_d]

65. Well, it's been said before on this thread, but I must chime in...

RUMMY, you are a SICK FUCK!

:nuke:

[MikeG]

66. I can't think of anything more creepy and ghoulish than this.

[jus_the_facts]

67. I'M REMINDED EVERY SINGLE DAY BY HOW THEY'RE NOT BEING....

....HELD ACCOUTABLE FOR THEIR CRIMES...BECAUSE THEY ARE GUILTY THEMSELVES FOR WHAT HAPPENED THAT DAY...AND THERE IS ALL KINDS OF EVIDENCE TO SUPPORT IT....YET A BLOWJOB IS IMPEACHABLE AND THEY GO ON DAY AFTER DAY WITHOUT MUCH AT ALL SAID ABOUT THEIR CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY AS A WHOLE.....and he needs to be REMINDED about 9/11....if they aren't all tried and convicted for treason as soon as control is taken from them.....then all that's EVER been defined as justice or democracy has all been in vain as we'll be ever MORE deserving of the twisted fucked up things their minds conceive! I'll say it again...THERE SHOULD HAVE BEEN A REVOLUTION AFTER THE SELECTION...instead of bendin' over and takin' this ROYAL FUCKIN'for the last 4 years....WE REALLY HAVE NO ONE TO BLAME BUT OURSELVES for allowing these KNOWN criminals to be allowed to govern again...if they'd been BEHIND BARS for their past atrocities while in office...and blah blah blah...isn't hindsight always 20/20 :puke:

[fujiyama]

70. All I can ask is...

:wtf:

:puke: I'm feeling sick.