rummy's 'happy Iraqi" remarks in todays Washington Post...(link)

[diamond14]

this one is real bragging about what a great job rummy did, when he visited saddam in the reagun days...delusional, real scary dissociation from reality...spreading fear....

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A14552-2003Oct24.html

Take the Fight to the Terrorists

By Donald H. Rumsfeld
Sunday, October 26, 2003; Page B07

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Last week marked the 20th anniversary of the suicide bomb attack on the U.S. Marine barracks in Beirut -- a blast that killed more than 240 Americans. Soon after that attack, President Reagan and Secretary of State George Shultz asked me to take a leave of absence to serve as presidential envoy for the Middle East. That experience taught us lessons about the nature of terrorism that are relevant today as we prosecute the global war on terror.

President Bush has made clear that the only way to win today's war is to carry the fight to the enemy and roll back the terrorist threat to civilization, "not on the fringes of its influence, but at the heart of its power." He has it right. To understand why, one might consider what happened in Beirut two decades ago.


The approach the president has taken is even more important as we enter a new and dangerous security environment. When the Marine barracks was attacked two decades ago, the terrorist threat was largely conventional. Terrorists had weapons that could kill dozens or, in the case of the Beirut bombing, hundreds of people. On Sept. 11 the terrorists grew even bolder -- bringing the war to our shores and using techniques that allowed them to kill not hundreds but thousands. Yet consider: the explosive agent used on Sept. 11 was jet fuel. The danger we face in the 21st century is the threat posed by terrorists armed not with jet fuel but with more powerful weapons. If the world does not deal with the emerging nexus between terrorist networks, terrorist states and weapons of mass murder, terrorists could one day kill not more than 240 people, as in Beirut, or more than 3,000 people, as on Sept. 11, but tens of thousands -- or more.

That is why our country and our 90-nation coalition is at war today.....


Shaking Hands: Iraqi President Saddam Hussein greets Donald Rumsfeld, then special envoy of President Ronald Reagan, in Baghdad on December 20, 1983

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Although official U.S. policy still barred the export of U.S. military equipment to Iraq, some was evidently provided on a "don't ask - don't tell" basis.

http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB82/

thanks to George Washington University in Washington DC, for archiving and linking many documents from rummy's earlier scams with saddam...making it easy to review rummy's past criminal actions...

[louis-t]

1. ...still delusional

....after all, these, years.:crazy:

[wyldwolf]

2. Delusional? Yes... a mental illness!

[diamond14]

3. welcome to DU, louis-t....always glad to have another person from

the beautiful state of Michigan here with me.....

I'm glad you're here....

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