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Hypocrisy Democracy
And Lord Rumsfeld

By Ted Twietmeyer
tedtw@frontiernet.net
12-1-5
 
Rumsfeld, the giver of the neurotoxin Aspartame unto the world to speed the destruction of the health of ignorant people everywhere, has declared thou shalt not use the word "insurgents" and that it is to be banned.
 
And, of course, Lord Rumsfeld never used the word "insurgents" - or did he?
 
LET'S LOOK AT JUST A FEW EXAMPLES:
 
Rumsfeld: Insurgents Not Static
February 18, 2005
Associated Press
 
WASHINGTON - Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld steadfastly declined Thursday to give Congress a public estimate of the size of the Iraqi insurgency.
 
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Rumsfeld acknowledges U.S., insurgents met
June 27, 2005
Associated Press
 
 
LONDON - Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld acknowledged Sunday that U.S. officials met with insurgents in Iraq, after a British newspaper reported two such meetings took place recently at a villa north of Baghdad.
 
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Rumsfeld says Iran is arming Iraqi insurgents
 
By Bill Gertz
THE WASHINGTON TIMES
 
August 20, 2005
 
Iran is continuing to supply weapons to insurgents in Iraq with the goal of creating an Islamist government, Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld said.
 
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Rumsfeld Says Iraqis Must Stop Insurgents
 
NewsMax Wires
Sunday, Dec. 26, 2004
 
 
BAGHDAD, Iraq -- In his Christmas eve encounters with U.S. military commanders and hundreds of their troops, Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld heard - and said - little about armor or troop shortages, issues that have made him a political target in Washington among both Democrats and Republicans.
 
 
His main message over a four-city tour was quite different: that the insurgency has staying power and a seemingly endless supply of weapons, and the time has come for ordinary Iraqis to realize that they - not the Americans - will ultimately decide who prevails in this conflict.
 
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Excerpt from SPIEGEL INTERVIEW WITH US SECRETARY OF DEFENSE DONALD RUMSFELD
 
"Over Time, We'll Get it Right in Iraq"
 
October 31st 2005
 
SPIEGEL: On a daily basis, though, there are terrorist attacks. Over 2,000 US soldiers have now been killed.
 
RUMSFELD: We thought there would be a spike in incidents prior to the October 15th referendum. There wasn't. There could be in December, however. But, increasingly, the pressure being put on the terrorists and the insurgents is working. They are capturing or killing large numbers of senior al-Qaida and Zarqawi-type people. Lately we put in a tip line, so that Iraqis can call in anonymously.
 
 
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The New Yorker
How a secret Pentagon program came to Abu Ghraib.
by SEYMOUR M. HERSH
Issue of 2004-05-24
Posted 2004-05-15
 
 
.... He [Rumsfeld] went on, "There are some today who are surprised that there are still pockets of resistance in Iraq, and they suggest that this represents some sort of failure on the part of the Coalition. But this is not the case." Rumsfeld compared the insurgents with those true believers who "fought on during and after the defeat of the Nazi regime in Germany."
 
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AND FINALLY STRAIGHT FROM THE HORSE'S MOUTH - DEFENSELINK.MIL:
 
 
Presenter: Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld
 
Tuesday, November 8, 2005
 
Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld Radio Interview with Samir Nader, Radio SAWA, Middle East Broadcasting Networks
 
 
NADER:  How do you assess the new strategy in fighting, defeating the insurgency?  Is it working?  Are insurgents returning to towns after they clean them out?
 
SECRETARY RUMSFELD:  Well, the insurgents have brains, and they look to see weak spots, and what they do is when we find them, we go after them and capture or kill them, and to the extent that they find a weakness somewhere in the country, they go and try to take advantage of that.  Throughout the history of warfare and insurgency it's always been so.  For every action they take, we watch what they do and adapt our tactics, techniques and procedures, and too do they.
 
NADER:  Is there any improvement in Syria and Iran's attitude toward supporting the insurgencies?
 
SECRETARY RUMSFELD:  No, not that I've seen.  Neither one is helpful.  Both are unhelpful.
 
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Isn't it good to know that here in America we can have such a fine blend of Hypocrisy-democracy? Less than a month ago, he clearly stated how "when we find them, we go after them and capture or kill them." This according to the government's own defense news website.
 
It is time to ask his royal highness - when does the damage control stop, and our men and women come home?
 
His highness' idea of insurgents might change again very soon, and just mentioning "insurgents" will be met with a snicker and the rebuttal, "that's an urban legend."
 
Just like those WMDs are now an urban legend, too.
 
And all the while the government is watching US...we are also watching THEM.
 
Ted Twietmeyer
 
www.data4science.net
 

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