I swear I have memories from early 2001 about bush wanting to go into Iraq and finish what his father started. But after 9/11 everything was so rah rah patriotism that I swear no one but me remembers that.
I was 21 in 2001 and very seriously working with a recruiter to enlist in the army. This was pre 9/11. And my dad being very much against it because he was convinced Bush wanted to go to war in Iraq.
So that feeling and sentiment was very much around.
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PiptheFairFrequently not in boats.Registered Userregular
reminder that in his younger years, rumsfeld was responsible for pushing through legislation that made it impossible to sue the cia or military if they murdered a u.s. on purpose
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reVerseAttack and Dethrone GodRegistered Userregular
It's always a nice surprise when an assgoblin dies, but they really need to start dying sooner. The current pace is just not acceptable at all.
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PiptheFairFrequently not in boats.Registered Userregular
Rumsfield and Cheney were at the lunch where Laffer drew his stupid fucking thing on a napkin and were the ones that turned it into conservative policy
Laffer fucking dedicated the napkin to the newly dead fucker
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Kane Red RobeMaster of MagicArcanusRegistered Userregular
When I was in JROTC I was given demerits because when reciting the chain of command I refused to call him honorable which you're supposed to preface the SecDef with.
You had demerits in your JROTC? Weird. We had nothing like that.
Yeah, it was pretty rare to get them though, generally there was a lot of "are you sure that's what you want to say/do?" type questions to lead kids out of trouble. Unfortunately that doesn't work as well on stubborn jackasses like Cadet Senior Airman Red Robe.
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HeadCreepsNOW IS THE TIME FOR DRINKING!Registered Userregular
What do Donald Rumsfeld and Rush Limbaugh have in common?
my favorite thing about bush the younger's presidency is all the nixon admin criminals he brought with him into the white house, including (but not limited to!) rumsfeld and cheney
it's sort of impressive how when you go looking into the many and varied crimes committed by the US government over the past seventy years or so, the same dozen names pop up like every fuckin' time
Mainstream politics is very much an old boys club where it's always the same handful of people calling each other experts and placing each other in positions of power whenever an administration is formed.
edit: Also fuck Rumsfeld. Burn in hell and all that.
oh i know all about it. an interesting thing to dig into is the intersection between wall street types and texas oilmen among the guys who started the CIA
Hard for me to celebrate a death at 88. Like, if you’re alive until 88 and rich and powerful all the way there, it’s just pretty much a complete victory for team evil at that point.
Hard for me to celebrate a death at 88. Like, if you’re alive until 88 and rich and powerful all the way there, it’s just pretty much a complete victory for team evil at that point.
Better dead than alive, I guess.
Of course this piss sponge was 88
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BroloBroseidonLord of the BroceanRegistered Userregular
HAHAHAHAHAHA Kissinger outlived Rumsfeld the world is a fuck, even for the fuckers.
Casual observation of this foresaken earth has led me to believe that being evil is phenomenally good for your longevity. See also Murdoch, Rupert.
Being extremely wealthy helps longevity, but I do think that evilness also plays a factor, since stress negatively impacts one's health and if one lacks any moral liberties they will never be burdened by thoughts about their actions negatively affecting others or regrets about not trying to mitigate some sort of harm they might have had the ability to mitigate.
WASHINGTON, April 11 (UPI) -- U.S. forces should not be blamed for the lawlessness and looting in Baghdad as it is a natural consequence of the transition from a dictatorship to a free country, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said Friday at the Pentagon.
"The task we've got ahead of us now is an awkward one ... It's untidy. And freedom's untidy. And free people are free to make mistakes and commit crimes and do bad things. They're also free to live their lives and do wonderful things. And that's what's going to happen here," Rumsfeld said.
"And for suddenly the biggest problem in the world to be looting is really notable."
Rumsfeld said he believes time will take care of the problem in Baghdad, as it seems to have in the southern cities of Umm Qasr and Basra, where looting has largely abated and the streets are back under relative control.
I was a little young to grasp his monstrosity entirely while also, you know, not being USian
Someone want to drop a top 10 awful things Rumsfield did? I often confuse him with Cheney somehow and that whole news period is overwhelming
Other people tackled the main big things, but one of his other big "contributions" was being one of the founders of Project for a New American Century, which basically wrote the Republican geopolitical playbook for the 2000s and 2010s. The basic gist of its ideology was a combination of "America is the hyperpower and should remain so forever," "other countries should become like America, by force if necessary," and "here is a list of enemy states who need to be toppled first."
Do you remember hearing the phase "Axis of Evil" growing up? That was basically their initial laundry list of countries that needed to be conquered first, spun as some malevolent alliance despite the fact that (at the time) most of them had nothing to do with one another. Iraq was considered the weakest link and went first; a lot of the current fuss over Iran is because it was supposed to be next on the list and the GOP can't quite let the possibility drop.
JedocIn the scupperswith the staggers and jagsRegistered Userregular
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I accidentally relived most of the Bush years when Jon Stewart left The Daily Show and they did that month-long livestream of all his episodes. I took a week off work for a staycation right as it was kicking off, and kept that running on the second monitor the whole time.
What a baffling era. I fell asleep the first day listening to jokes about HMOs and woke up to slightly nervous jokes about the whole government apparatus screaming for war with a country we hadn't talked about for most of a decade. And then there was just a solid real-time week of Jon Stewart rapidly losing all faith in humanity. Watching him go grey in time-lapse was a hell of a thing.
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I was 21 in 2001 and very seriously working with a recruiter to enlist in the army. This was pre 9/11. And my dad being very much against it because he was convinced Bush wanted to go to war in Iraq.
So that feeling and sentiment was very much around.
What the
Seems to be a trend developing here…
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Rumsfield and Cheney were at the lunch where Laffer drew his stupid fucking thing on a napkin and were the ones that turned it into conservative policy
Laffer fucking dedicated the napkin to the newly dead fucker
Yeah, it was pretty rare to get them though, generally there was a lot of "are you sure that's what you want to say/do?" type questions to lead kids out of trouble. Unfortunately that doesn't work as well on stubborn jackasses like Cadet Senior Airman Red Robe.
They're both dead as hell
Rest in piss you evil fucker
it's sort of impressive how when you go looking into the many and varied crimes committed by the US government over the past seventy years or so, the same dozen names pop up like every fuckin' time
hitting hot metal with hammers
edit: Also fuck Rumsfeld. Burn in hell and all that.
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Better dead than alive, I guess.
Of course this piss sponge was 88
i just need one more to add to the pyre
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If one sleeps naked does that mean they gotta turn their skin inside out? might be worth
i'll test this out and get back to you
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A little on the nose dontcha think, God?
Casual observation of this foresaken earth has led me to believe that being evil is phenomenally good for your longevity. See also Murdoch, Rupert.
Being extremely wealthy helps longevity, but I do think that evilness also plays a factor, since stress negatively impacts one's health and if one lacks any moral liberties they will never be burdened by thoughts about their actions negatively affecting others or regrets about not trying to mitigate some sort of harm they might have had the ability to mitigate.
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i have been made aware of this twitter account that keeps track of things liza minelli has outlived, which now includes donald rumsfeld (lol)
hitting hot metal with hammers
Rumsfeld: Looting is transition to freedom
hitting hot metal with hammers
for real though fuck this dude forever. he was a ghoul in human skin and the world is better for his being dead
hitting hot metal with hammers
Other people tackled the main big things, but one of his other big "contributions" was being one of the founders of Project for a New American Century, which basically wrote the Republican geopolitical playbook for the 2000s and 2010s. The basic gist of its ideology was a combination of "America is the hyperpower and should remain so forever," "other countries should become like America, by force if necessary," and "here is a list of enemy states who need to be toppled first."
Do you remember hearing the phase "Axis of Evil" growing up? That was basically their initial laundry list of countries that needed to be conquered first, spun as some malevolent alliance despite the fact that (at the time) most of them had nothing to do with one another. Iraq was considered the weakest link and went first; a lot of the current fuss over Iran is because it was supposed to be next on the list and the GOP can't quite let the possibility drop.
Multiple myeloma, so that's probably a safe bet.
(That said, fuck cancer.)
What a baffling era. I fell asleep the first day listening to jokes about HMOs and woke up to slightly nervous jokes about the whole government apparatus screaming for war with a country we hadn't talked about for most of a decade. And then there was just a solid real-time week of Jon Stewart rapidly losing all faith in humanity. Watching him go grey in time-lapse was a hell of a thing.