“Do you think the numbers of US troops that you went into Iraq with did absolve you from the responsibility of tens, maybe hundreds of thousands of innocent Iraqis killed by the coalition and those criminals you talked about?” Foukara asked Rumsfeld. “Give me a straight answer.”
“You can characterize my answers any way you want,” Rumsfeld responded. “And you do it in a pejorative way.”Incredible. One of the men most responsible for the blunder of the century that has cost the lives of hundreds of thousands of people and a trillion dollars of American tax money gets told to answer for his actions and he calls it derogatory. Rumsfeld went on to call the whole interview a "haranguing," in other words an attack.
That's just it. We are never allowed to bring up Iraq unless we praise how brave and glorious the Bushies were for getting rid of the evil of Saddam. If we do, we are being hateful and attacking. If we dare mention that everything the Bushies ever told us about Iraq turned out to be a lie, we are immediately lumped into a group of Not Very Serious People and told not to come back out until we learn to not question anything Bush ever did.
That Bush and his cohorts set this nation on a path of Endless War without ever raising a penny to pay for any of it is considered slander in American politics and never to be mentioned. We are supposed to give Rummy and his people Medals of Patriotic Freedom and tell them how great and safe they've made the world. And call the people responsible fiscal conservative patriots.
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