Rumsfeld "Memo" an Obvious Plant

[Ugnmoose]

http://www.buzzflash.com/contributors/03/10/con03231.html
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A BUZZFLASH READER COMMENTARY
by P. Williams

That memo wasn't leaked, it was obviously planted. Why? Well here are a few reasons I believe:

- The administration obviously knows they are losing the war on terrorism and so now they are setting up their excuses. How else are they going to try to explain why there are still so many terrorists?

- They are trying to prepare the American mentality to expect long drawn out occupations in both Iraq and Afghanistan as necessary evils.

- It makes Rumsfeld look like he is doing his job, but that the Department of Defense is a large difficult bureaucracy to manage (shift the blame).

- It plants the seed for the possible development of a new branch of defense designed by the White House.

- It paves the way for them to take more "necessary" aggressive measures.

[Wetzelbill]

1. It looked to me as a way to show some feigned rationale

as if they are contemplated policy changes or looking at all sides. In the end, they hope it will lead people to conclude that they pursued all options and the Wolfie-Perle ideology is the best way to go. So they have an excuse to stay the course.

[DeepModem Mom]

2. Rummy also talks about possibility of "new finding"

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=104&topic_id=579285

[blm]

3. Couldn't agree more.

This was NO accident. They want restructuring done THEIR way, and they don't care how low they have to sink.

[DrBB]

4. Having read it very carefully 3 or 4 times now

I fail to see what all the fuss is about. Stripped of the frisson of "secret" info, I don't think anyone would find it particularly noteworthy. He says "long hard slog," but that's been the party line ever since they decided they didn't need to lie about it being a cakewalk any more. He says the effort against al quaeda is not 100% successful, but that's only because we need al quaeda there to to justfiy all the other stuff we wanted to do anyway, and we need to justify doing more of the same. {on edit: i.e., If they really cared about al quaeda, why suck all resources away from pursuing same in order to veer off into an irrelevant war on Iraq?}

NOTHING in the memo challenges any basic assumptions of ShrumpCorp policy, and given that groupthink is their central operating principle, there's certainly nothing surprising about that.

[John_H]

5. Absolutetly. but maybe for a different reason.

Could also be a warning shot fired accross chimpy's bow. "Want more? Keep those Rummy's-out trial baloons coming."