MARY LYON FROM THE LEFT: It Goes Deeper than Donald

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By Mary Lyon -- World News Trust

Sept.3, 2006 -- Donald Scumsfeld does it again. I’ve been stewing about this for almost a week now. No. I take that back. It goes back WAY farther than that. WAY farther than just smacking us anti-war activists around, questioning our sanity as well as our patriotism. Way before “Old Europe” and going to war “with the army you want or wish to have.” This tiresome jerk puts Spiro “nattering nabobs of negativism” Agnew to shame. By now This Donald is making just about everybody equally enraged, whether you’re an inflamed street fighter just outside the Green Zone or you’re a desperate republi-CON trying disingenuously to distance yourself from who/what you once ardently embraced. Frank Rich of the New York Times even writes that while George W. Bush claimed the mantle of “uniter, not divider,” it’s Donald Rumsfeld who’s actually united seemingly everybody behind one purpose: the drive to pull his statue down from its pedestal in the town square. But it goes deeper than that.

Yes, by all means, removing Rumsfeld is a worthy quest. Plenty of evidence to support this: his arrogance, his offensive running-off-at-the-mouth, his repeatedly wrong assessments of how the war is going, his lousy stewardship and worse judgment calls, his flame-throwing at the growing masses of us objecting to the war and all its cockamamie justifications, ad nauseam. The people who yammer on about what a smart idea it is to run the government like a business always seem to forget what a business boss always does with an employee who screws up this badly. That employee gets -- what? Anybody? Don’t’ we all know the drill? FIRED, that’s what. The answer is -- FIRED. But there he sits, still secure at the pinnacle of Pentagon, happy as a pig in poop, and probably first in line for another one of those super-duper Presidential Medals. The problem of Donald Rumsfeld goes deeper than that.

Yes, we should send this Donald who ducks -- to his professional reward -- disgrace and permanent unemployment, or to a war crimes tribunal and then prison, or better yet, perhaps to the front he so thoughtfully mis-assembled, where everybody else is meeting gruesome situations and sometimes gruesome ends. He should not be allowed to pass “GO,” or collect 200 dollars, or write memoirs he can then hawk to brother and sister American Enterprise Institute war-toadies or cock-eyed fans along the “mashed-potato circuit,” or gullible, mis-informed Pox “news” viewers. But that’s not going to solve ANYTHING.

Yes, Rummy’s judgment is scummy. His management of modern-day warfare is abysmal. The results he’s bringing back to us are epic in their tragedy and shameful incompetence. An ocean of blood stains his hands. Chaos across an entire region of the globe crowns his brow. And his insults to us who’ve tried to stop or prevent that bloodshed, about how we’re naïve appeasers because we have the nerve to disagree with his magnificent, all-knowing self bring new meaning to the word “obnoxious.” But while we’re all obsessing on squashing this hapless cockroach we’ve caught out in the open, we’re ignoring the nest he crawled out of. You know what happens after you get rid of one cockroach. Soon enough, you’ll spot another. And you’ll be lucky if it’s only one you see. It goes deeper than Donald.

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1. Uh-oh... she's baaaaaaaaaaaack... :D

Kicking! But then again, I tend to kick myself on a regular basis, anyway.

[cspanlovr]

2. A very good read. Thanks.

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5. Glad you liked it.

Thanks back atcha!

[H2O Man]

3. Nominated

Keep up the good work!

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4. Thank you, my friend!

That's an honor coming from you.

[ktlyon]

6. kick

HI

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7. Cool!

:toast:

:hi:

:headbang:

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8. If the House Dems had courage they would Impeach

Rumsfailed. It may not fly but it would at least show some intestinal fortitude. Rumsfailed is not only an incompetent asshole, he is a self admitted War Criminal. Dems need to step up and Impeach this War Criminal in order to expose his violations of The Constitution of the United States.

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

Recently it has been found out that even more detainees were "ghost detainees". The fact that Rumsfeld has not been charged speaks volumes. If Congress wishes to garner any respect they should move forward with Impeachment Declaration of Rumsfeld.




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.

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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

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9. Well, I'd quote scumsfeld himself, post 9/11: "Go wide. Sweep it all up."

ALL of 'em deserve IMPEACHMENT. But as with every quest, it's always better to go directly to the top.

Even though it's technically not accurate (as I heard somewhere here), I still like the quote about "The fish rots from the head." And it's eminently applicable here.

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10. The Rumsfailed Impeachment is more possible.

I advocate this for that very reason. The War Crimes of the Busholini Fascists will be displayed with a Rumsfailed Impeachment. It is a starting point.

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11. Even that won't have a prayer unless we Dems take the House back.

At that point, let's go get 'em! An example needs to be made. My only fear in targeting scumsfeld is that bush will still be there to appoint God-knows-whom to take over DoD. And the next one will likely be as bad, but just sneakier - AND the media, as usual, will happily give whoever it is a nice long honeymoon without any questioning or challenges or probing. Under such conditions, an awful lot of damage and heartache can be caused.

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12. Kicking

for the evening.

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13. Thank you, K&R!

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16. To you also!

Many thanks!

[ClassWarrior]

14. Happy as a pig in poop.

:rofl:

Nice Mar.

NGU.

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15. Well, he IS.

He is a pig (apologies to pigs everywhere), but unfortunately, the poop part is what he's got the rest of us stuck in.

NGU!

[ClassWarrior]

18. I thought I smelled something...

B-)

NGU.

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17. Holy Cow - whoever gave me a tenth rec - THANK YOU!

Cheers, guys, and much love!

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