So, Rumsfeld didn't like Krugman's version of things, it seems...

[NRaleighLiberal]

http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2011/09/12/140402819/rumsfeld-calls-paul-krugmans-sept-11-column-repugnant

Rumsfeld says...

"After reading Krugman's repugnant piece on 9/11, I cancelled my subscription to the New York Times this AM."

WAHHH! WAHHH!

Interesting that Donnie uses the word that describes Rummy himself so well!

[Rex]

1. The lying fucker still has not been forced to tell where he was on 9/11.

Can't be in two places at the same time Rummy...come clean.

[zipplewrath]

7. When?

There's video of him on the front law with victims soon after impact.

[Rex]

11. Really? Link?

http://whatreallyhappened.com/WRHARTICLES/rumsfeld911.html

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Izr2QuhHzWQ

There are two stories of where he was and why Dick Cheney took control. The fact that there is video of him helping people is not part of the enquiry. A lot of people went outside to help...but we are talking before that time. While he was inside and AWOL.

[zipplewrath]

12. So you mean between 9:00 and 9:30 basically

He was supposedly in his office during that time, having breakfast. It was strange though that Rice and Bush mention having trouble contacting him that day. I mean, the guy has a secretary and all. When the acting CJCS shows up he is told immediately where he is. He immediately orders that the Secretary be brought back in "where he belongs".

[Rex]

20. Yes. Very strange since by chain of command he is in charge and

taking orders directly from GWB, not Dick Cheney (who was in control at the time and gave out orders). The fact that he went outside to help injured people, makes one question what his security detail was thinking at that moment. Where were they?

[zipplewrath]

22. Well inside the pentagon

Inside the pentagon his security detail probably consists of a couple of marines. All they do is follow him around. Since it was an unscheduled trip outside, his traveling detail was probably unware.

What is really surprising is just how "disconnected" the leadership was that day. Most of the large decisions were made without consulting them. The FAA administrator gave the order to land the planes, without consulting the White House. Jets were scrambled and the Pentagon had no idea. Cheney thought he gave an order, on behalf of the president, but we have found out that no one paid attention to it. No one was flying around prepared to shoot down any airliners. We have found out recently, all of the pilots thought they'd have to obtain permission to do so. Permission that was never granted. NYC was being run at the local level. I have a pilot friend that received his instructions to land from his airline, not from ATC.

[Rex]

23. It is strange that he would go outside and not stay in command

of the situation, granted they might have thought going outside was a better idea then staying inside. Just seems strange to me the Head Honcho was outside helping and not inside directing. Yeah then they close down NORAD, for no good reason. IMO to hide details they didn't want to get out. Like why they scrambled a plane from Virgina (hundreds of miles away) when they had a whole flight wing just seconds away at an Airforce Base.

To call them bumbling would be an insult to bumblers everywhere.

[zipplewrath]

26. He was still fairly clueless

It isn't really clear what he knew, or what he thought. Truth is, the whole administration seemed amazingly unprepared for what happened. He didn't seem to grasp that this was an attack upon the nation. His own chairman of the JCS had to have it explained to him.

[woo me with science]

2. Rumsfeld: "Attack imminent if Congress cuts defense"

http://www.presstv.ir/usdetail/198607.html


Rumsfeld: "Attack imminent if Congress cuts defense"

Former U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld warned that it will only be a matter of time before America endures another terrorist attack if Congress ends up blaming the defense budget for the country's red ink woes.

“The Department of Defense is not what's causing the debt and the deficit. It's the entitlement programs,” he told HUMAN EVENTS in an exclusive interview....


:puke: :nuke:

[SharonAnn]

3. Primary cause of deficit is the tax cuts. Second is the economy.

[indepat]

19. Third is MIC spending

:patriot:

[RC]

5. Rummy ain't very good at math, is he?

[SusanaMontana41]

6. That's expected from a corporatist

who also happens to be a war criminal.

[Uncle Joe]

9. That kind of statement by Rumsfield reminds me of the message from this thread by n2doc

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x1924478

How to Beat Terrorism: Refuse to Be Terrorized

In case you haven’t noticed, hysteria is what the terrorists want. In fact, it’s the only win a decapitated, weakened al-Qaida can get these days. The only hope that these eschatological conspiracy theorists possess for success lies in compelling the U.S. to spend its way into oblivion and pursue ill-conceived wars. That’s how Osama bin Laden transforms from a cave-dwelling psycho into a world-historical figure — not because of what he was, but because of how we reacted to him.

And that points to the only way out of a trap that’s lasted a decade. It has nothing to do with national security and everything to do with politics. The U.S. has to embrace the reality that terrorism is not anything remotely like the existential threat we make it out to be. We can honor those 2,996 without being permanently haunted by them.

[woo me with science]

16. Nice link. Thank you. nt

[liberal N proud]

4. It matters about this much what he thinks about the truth

[PotatoChip]

8. The truth hurts doesn't it Mr. Rumsfeld

-assuming your conscience is enough intact to feel it. Somehow I doubt that though.

For you it's probably more about them saying 'mean' things about you. The OP is right. Wahhh, wahhh! lol

[malaise]

10. That's OK Rummy - I canceled all your freedoms

and want you exported to the Hague. Go Cheney yourself- in other words Fuck off!!
:puke:

[EFerrari]

13. You can tweet Uncle Don @RumsfeldOffice.

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

18. "Goodness gracious, why are you people being so hostile toward me? My stars some

of you sure seem to take this whole destruction of the republic thingy rather harshly, heavens to Betsy!"

[EFerrari]

21. LOL. Perfect diction. n/t

[woo me with science]

24. LOL nt

[dana_b]

27. thanks! I just did

I hope he knows that when I call him a "lying war criminal", it's done with feeling.

[EFerrari]

28. LOL

:)

[deminks]

14. Rumsferatu should know all about the fake hero thing.

just saying.

[spanone]

15. guess he signed on when judith miller was promoting their illegal bullshit in iraq

[The Backlash Cometh]

17. The fact that he shows no tolerance for someone's opinion, puts everything

in the proper perspective. It's who he is.

[kenny blankenship]

25. Unsubscribing from NYT Pffft! As if the NYT would deliver to Karinhall...

Field Marshall Von Fuckface unsubbing from NYT would be a badge of honor for the NYT, if they had any in the first place, and if he had ever subbed to NYT in the second first place, which I very much strongly, confidently and highly doubt.

[Solly Mack]

29. Fuck war criminals.

More especially those that got away with it.