Showing posts with label Donald Rumsfeld. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Donald Rumsfeld. Show all posts

January 26, 2016

Stephen Colbert makes Donald Rumsfeld squirm until he nearly admits Iraq war was a mistake

Stephen Colbert makes Donald Rumsfeld squirm until he nearly admits Iraq war was a mistake

"Stephen Colbert grilled Donald Rumsfeld over the decisions — and dishonesty — that pushed the United States into the disastrous war in Iraq."

Rumsfeld quietly shelved a 2002 report undermining Bush administration's claims about Iraq's WMDs

http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2016/1/25/1474826/-Rumsfeld-quietly-shelved-a-2002-report-undermining-Bush-administration-s-claims-about-Iraq-s-WMDs
"But Rumsfeld, Cheney, Wolfowitz, and others of that crew continue to roam free, doing book tours, pulling in the bucks from speaking engagements, working their sinecures at rightist think tanks, and offering their bloodstained advice about how American foreign policy should be conducted.  Anything they have to say ought to be coming from their prison cells."

May 27, 2015

Search the 935 Iraq War Lies By Bush And Top Officials

http://samuel-warde.com/2015/05/search-935-iraq-war-lies/
"In fact, according to an interactive database released by the Center for Public Integrity, Bush lied 232 times about weapons of mass destruction and 28 times about Iraq’s ties to Al Qaeda. He’s the winner by the way with those 260 lies. Colin Powell is runner up with a total of 254 lies.
The database contains 935 false statements made by President Bush and seven top officials"

May 27, 2014

PERRspectives: Chickenhawks and Cheapskates

PERRspectives: Chickenhawks and Cheapskates

"To be sure, the Chickenhawks and Deficit Hawks who routinely boast they most "support the troops" have an appalling way of showing it. By 2020, the twin wars and twin Bush tax cuts they so ardently advocated will have drained roughly $10 trillion from the United States Treasury."

April 2, 2014

Donald Rumsfeld Caught In Lie About Osama, Saddam And 9/11

Donald Rumsfeld Caught In Lie About Osama, Saddam And 9/11

"In a new documentary, former Defense Secretary says he doesn’t know of anyone in the Bush administration who tried to conflate Saddam Hussein and Osama bin Laden. The fact that we invaded Iraq in the first place was, of course, because Americans were scared, and BushCo played on those fears to start a war that had nothing to do with 9/11."

March 20, 2013

10 Best Replies to Rumsfeld's Disgusting Tweet About "Liberating Iraqis" | Alternet

10 Best Replies to Rumsfeld's Disgusting Tweet About "Liberating Iraqis" | Alternet
"On Tuesday, ten years after the United States invaded Iraq, George W. Bush's Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld created a firestorm on Twitter after he said in a Tweet that our country has been working this past decade "liberating 25 mil Iraqis." It is quite terrifying that Rumsfeld believes the war brought freedom to a Iraq — a country that has been torn apart by our occupation."

Scahill Calls for Accountability on Our Invasion of Iraq

Scahill Calls for Accountability on Our Invasion of Iraq
"On the ten year anniversary of the invasion of Iraq, there has been an awful lot of naval gazing by our media, sadly with most of it being revisionist history on what happened during the run up to that invasion and occupation, with a lot of glossing over just how complicit the media was in helping the neocons beat the war drums."

Ten Years Later, Remembering Those Who Said 'No' To The Iraq War

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March 19, 2013

PERRspectives: Nothing Succeeds Like Failure for Iraq War Architects

PERRspectives: Nothing Succeeds Like Failure for Iraq War Architects
"Ten years later, there is little question that the Iraq war was a disaster for the United States and its people. Over 4,400 Americans died and another 30,000 were wounded in the conflict. While U.S. forces were left to "muddle through" in Afghanistan, America's Mesopotamia misadventure significantly strengthened Iran's influence in the region. All told, the greatest foreign policy fiasco in modern American history mayultimately cost taxpayers $4 trillion."

No Regrets: Three Iraq War Architects Celebrate 10-Year Anniversary

No Regrets: Three Iraq War Architects Celebrate 10-Year Anniversary: “I’m waiting for the architects of those policies to get up and say it didn’t work, but it’s tough to expect that because they never articulated what the hell they were doing.” This is what conservative activist Grover Norquist told the Huffington Post in a piece published today on what the anniversary of the Iraq [...]/p

The Lies: No Doubt, No Question, Mountain of Evidence, We Know He Has Them, No Doubt | Common Dreams

The Lies: No Doubt, No Question, Mountain of Evidence, We Know He Has Them, No Doubt | Common Dreams
"Marking ten years of the unprecedentedongoing debacle that was the Iraq War, acompilation by William Pitt of the flood of lies, told over and over, by an Adminstration that has yet to receive its just rewards. Chilling."