Rumsfeld's "Message to the People of Iraq" transcript

[bobthedrummer]

bizarre.
http://www.dod.gov/transcripts/2003/tr20030430-secdef0138.html

[thebigidea]

1. one of Rummy's "Greatest Hits"

Now available on 8-track!

[Spazito]

2. I honestly think the Bush cabal take "delusion" pills before speaking...

and they seem to think that no one has a brain, that no one can see and smell BS when it drops on them.

[bobthedrummer]

3. Drip, drip, drip...

eom

[EdGy]

4. what a joke

that speech was a joke. Anyone reading or hearing that will be immediately suspicious. Rumsfeld is assuming that everyone thinks he has good intentions.

But Iraqis remember that Rumsfeld visited Baghdad in the early 1980s, shook Saddam's hand at the same time Saddam was repressing them. They remember that Rumsfeld was the main proponent of the US's pro-Saddam policies under Reagan. They remember that under Reagan and Bush I the US supplied Saddam with chemical weapons, with precursors for biological weapons, with missiles and other weaponry that dragged on the IRan-Iraq war for 8 years resulting in the deaths of millions of Iraqis (and Iranians) (For details you can go here:

http://www.cam.ac.uk/societies/casi/info/usdocs/usiraq80s90s.html
U.S. Diplomatic and Commercial Relationships with Iraq, 1980 - 2 August 1990


So when they hear Rumsfeld saying this, it is very clear to them that he's full of bulls***...

These guys in Washington really think everyone is so stupid that they would actually BELIEVE what they are saying.

[bobthedrummer]

5. When Rumsfeld was in Iraq, he lunched with members of the First Armor

here is transcript of that insanity IMO.
http://www.dod.mil/transcripts/2003/tr20030906-secdef0654.html

[truth2power]

6. WTF is he talking about there??

That is the most meaningless bunch of gobbledegook I have read in a long while. :crazy:

edit: spelling

[bobthedrummer]

11. Europe and Russia mostly.

Insane nonsense.

From his "superior crainium" LOL!

[bobthedrummer]

9. Yes, Rumsfeld has been to Iraq several times-Here he is with Saddam

in pleasanter times
http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB82/index.htm

[truth2power]

7. OMG!

It's early. I'm only on my first cup of coffee. But this stuff is really over the edge.

"We've watched you embrace your freedom: pulling down statues of Saddam Hussein,..."

Can you say "staged event"? Like the Iraqi people wouldn't notice that.

"... worshipping freely for the first time in decades,..."

Did Saddam really not allow them to worship? I didn't think that was an issue. Comments?


"... debating the future of your country, and even raising your voices in dissent on some occasion, but without fear of torture or death."

Bwahahahahaha! "On some occasion? Sounds like he's describing a "Roberts Rules of Order" town meeting, not the daily protests that are met, more often than not, with killing of civilians.

This guy is certifiable.

:argh:

[bobthedrummer]

10. I concur-certifiable.

n/t

[Cat Atomic]

8. Sounds like it's meant for domestic consumption, too.

It's got all the usual bullshit justifications for occupation.

The fact is that this group sees the population of a country- including the population of the US- as and incidental burden (or a labor resource). Neither is worth listening to in their world.

[bobthedrummer]

12. "Each day that goes by, conditions are improving in Iraq".

Chortle, chortle, GASP...:puke::argh:

[mmonk]

13. I thought his messge would be

"we rule".

[bobthedrummer]

14. God has chosen US to lead you to freedom, people of Iraq

that is more neo-conservative purposeful and succinct.

[mmonk]

15. you're right!

[bobthedrummer]

16. "Hello, I'm Don Rumsfeld..."

:skull::nuke::puke:

[bobthedrummer]

17. Time for the real Shock and Awe

http://www.dodccrp.org/shockIndex.html