Donald H. Rumsfeld, whose ties to the Saddam regime he now purports to have despised have been well documented, and who was earlier this year proselytising for Saddam to be granted immunity from prosecution for the crimes in which he, Donald H., was complicit; has explained away Iraqi anarchy by surmising that, "Every jail in that country was emptied, so on the street are looters, hooligans, and bad people. They have to be rounded up and put back in," and promising that, "The forces there will be using muscle."
So while Human Rights Watch's 2002 country report noted the regime's "arbitrary arrest of suspected political opponents and members of their families" and Amnesty International is tacitly accusing the Bush and Blair Administrations of, "A failure to treat" the issue of "disappeared" victims of Saddam's regime "properly and as a matter of urgency"; Donald H. -- rather than addressing the dearth of electricity, food, potable water, medicine, petrol (!), basic services, police, and paid employment (from whence the anarchy has clearly sprung) -- is spouting off about the need for a good old-fashioned "round up".
It isn't, surely, any wonder that the Bush Administration would be neglecting the task of making a full accounting of Saddam's crimes -- we were, after all, fully in support of those crimes. But at least it looks as though the Bush Administration is keeping its promise to model Iraqi democracy after American democracy: all niggers into the slammer.
If you want to find out how scary Rumsfeld really is, take a look at the guy he put in charge of our nuclear development program:
[Keith Payne] first made his mark with an article in the summer 1980 issue of Foreign Policy ....called "Victory Is Possible." Among its pronouncements: "an intelligent United States offensive [nuclear] strategy, wedded to homeland defenses, should reduce U.S. casualties to approximately 20 million … a level compatible with national survival and recovery."
...Payne noted that, in Operation Desert Storm, allied forces had a hard time finding and hitting Iraqi Scud missiles. In a future war, he wrote, "If the locations of dispersed mobile launchers cannot be determined with enough precision to permit pinpoint strikes, suspected deployment areas might be subjected to multiple nuclear strikes."
Posted by: Vin Carreo on May 18, 2003 09:50 PMshit i hate reading the n word. i realize in context what you are saying but ackkk it makes me cringe.
Posted by: bruno on May 19, 2003 12:18 PM