Rumsfeld on 9/11: "it may be ... a blessing in disguise"

[Snellius]

Interestingly, about, oh, a month or two after September 11th I was in Oman, meeting with the sultan of Oman in a tent south of his country -- he was visiting his constituents. And he said, "You know, as terrible as September 11th was, it may very well be that it's a blessing in disguise." And I said, "How so?" And he said that it was terrible, the loss of 3,000 human beings, but he said if it will awake the world, if it will cause us to act, if it will cause people to stop people from teaching it is a good thing to kill innocent men, women and children -- if that were to happen before we had a September 11th, where now 3,000 were killed, but 30,000 or 300,000 -- through a biological attack, or whatever -- he said then it would have served a useful purpose.
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As the president said in his address to the country, "For America, there will be no going back to the era before September 11th, 2001, to false comfort in a dangerous world. We have learned that terrorist attacks are not caused by the use of strength, they are invited by the perception of weakness."

http://www.defenselink.mil/transcripts/2003/tr20030910-secdef0661.html

Perpetual war fighting a never-ending evil

[Skittles]

1. It sure was a blessing for him and his evil friends

:puke:

[ixion]

2. That's life under the Bush cabal

all war, all the time.

[prolesunited]

3. That repulsive remark

rates right up there with Bush's "Lucky me, I hit the trifecta." These people have no sense of humanity or decency. Only those with no souls could find silver linings in death and the destruction of people's lives.

[kwolf68]

5. Agreed

And they have a hundred million nitwits in our nation who are goose-stepping to the evil sway. It’s up to the people of this nation to reject this extremism.

Hitler didn’t take Germany by force, he won the votes. The progression toward tyranny can be self-induced if you have:

1) Ignorant masses
2) Belligerent Nationalism and Jingoism
3) An aura of superiority
4) Massive Propaganda Ministries
5) Deification of the military and more power for that military
6) Heavy Investment in defense, and weapons
7) The ability to minimize the most nefarious of your partys ideologies
8) The ability to accentuate what the masses want to hear

Combining … it all leads to fascism.

[SideshowScott]

4. Im so sick of these " Glad 9/11 happend " right wingers

To some if not most right wingers, 9/11 marks a joyus day for them for some reason when you have the GOP holding its convention in NYC, Bushs residency being saved from ruin after 9/11, and when some right wing nutcase saying " 9/11 made more people right wing" its like they are just estatic it happend....
And if anyone does any digging you will find that it defftanly looks like the GOP welcomed such an attack

[11 Bravo]

6. What disguise?

Smirk's approval numbers were heading down the sewer until he unabashedly climbed atop the bodies of 3,000 men, women, and children in an attempt to revive his failing (p)residency. To this day he invokes 9/11 in response to questions about tax cuts, the environment, the economy, or any other question posed to him. There has to be a special place in Hell for an individual who makes ideological hay out of the deaths of other innocent human beings.

[Plaid Adder]

7. In the immortal words of Blackadder:

"Well if it is, it's a very GOOD disguise."

@#$!,

The Plaid Adder

[kodi]

8. rumsfeld: "the murder of thousands of americans is good for america!"

don't tell me that the right wing press would not post that headline if bill clinton had said what rumsfeld said.