Krugman writes: "How many of our professional pundits - people who should have understood very well what was happening - took the easy way out, turning a blind eye to the corruption and lending their support to the hijacking of the atrocity?"
Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld testifies before the federal panel reviewing the September 11 attacks in Washington, DC, 03/23/04. (photo: Gerald Herbert/AP)
Rumsfeld Cancels NY Times Over Krugman 9/11 Blog
12 September 11
Former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld tweeted his outrage over a Paul Krugman blog titled 'The Years of Shame.' Rumsfeld's tweet: 'After reading Krugman's repugnant piece on 9/11, I cancelled my subscription to the New York Times this AM.' Rumsfeld reportedly tweets for himself. See the full text of Krugman's blog below. -- JPS/RSN
The Years of Shame
s it just me, or are the 9/11 commemorations oddly subdued?
Actually, I don't think it's me, and it's not really that odd.
What happened after 9/11 - and I think even people on the right know this, whether they admit it or not - was deeply shameful. The atrocity should have been a unifying event, but instead it became a wedge issue. Fake heroes like Bernie Kerik, Rudy Giuliani, and, yes, George W. Bush raced to cash in on the horror. And then the attack was used to justify an unrelated war the neocons wanted to fight, for all the wrong reasons.
A lot of other people behaved badly. How many of our professional pundits - people who should have understood very well what was happening - took the easy way out, turning a blind eye to the corruption and lending their support to the hijacking of the atrocity?
The memory of 9/11 has been irrevocably poisoned; it has become an occasion for shame. And in its heart, the nation knows it.
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Because you said it all?
Or because we have a polarized citizenry, who react, with vitriol and inane, inflammatory rhetoric, not to what is said -- or the meaning behind words -- but to the perception that our chosen side is being slighted?
We all know exactly what the reaction from the evil right wing is going to be.
Attacking Afghanistan is doing god's work because god happens to be impotent right now and Saddam Hussein and Iraq deserved what they got because Georgie Porgy was upset at the rumor that Saddam tried to put a hit on Poppie.
Can you call Obama and have 5 minute talk with him - please!
Didn't Dante reserve one of the inner most rings of hell for those that were in a position to do the most and did not!
Me, too. Not to talk churchy, but we had a good talk by the minister about this yesterday in church. He asked the same question. Does "never forget" mean we hold onto anger and keep wars going? Or should "never forget" mean that we have the dark side in all of us and that we must never let that side of us rule our world. I liked the comparison.
A stupid man gives free rein to his anger;
a wise man waits and lets it grow cool.
Maybe anger needs to have free rein...
Elliott Abrams,, Gary Bauer, William J. Bennett, Jeb Bush
Dick Cheney, Eliot A. Cohen, Midge Decter, Paula Dobriansky, Steve Forbes
Aaron Friedberg, Francis Fukuyama, Frank Gaffney, Fred C. Ikle
Donald Kagan, Zalmay Khalilzad, I. Lewis Libby, Norman Podhoretz
Dan Quayle, Peter W. Rodman, Stephen P. Rosen, Henry S. Rowen
Donald Rumsfeld, Vin Weber, George Weigel, Paul Wolfowitz)
Considering that Bush needed _some_ kind of boost, most of the people involved in the attacks were Saudi, The Saudi Royal Family have been long-time personal friends of the Bushes, members of the bin Laden family were allowed to leave the US on a private charter while all other civilian air traffic was still grounded, they stopped hunting for bin Laden in deference to the invasion of Iraq, and Bush quietly removed American troops from Saudi Arabia within a year, I see many unanswered pieces of the puzzle that make me wonder just how much involvement the Bush administration had in the events of that day. I would _NOT_ put it beyond the CIA to have been involved ... George HW Bush still had a lot of pull with The Agency that he used to head, before becoming VP under Raygun.
HE MENTIONED THAT TO BE AN IMPORTANT PRESIDENT YOU HAD TO BE A WAR PRESIDENT!!!!
HOW'S THAT WORKING FOR YA GEORGE?????
It sure as hell isn't working for this country, Iraq or the world.
9-11 was a tailor-made??? excuse for him to grab the power. He always loved to say that he was a war president and hardly ever spoke publickly without a huge upbacking of soldiers behind him.
Be sure and have YOUR favorite neocon/American christian Taliban politiian spayed AND neutered! (Just to make sure!)
Be sure and have your favorite neocon/American christian Taliban/politic ian spayed AND neutered! (JUST to make sure!)
He should be at The Hague on trail for war crimes and until that day there is absolutely NOTHING he says that merits my attention!
Look in the mirror Rumsfeld and face what you did to the lives of millions, without a flicker of care for those you harmed or killed. You need to apologize to the country and the world.
Thank you Paul Krugman for speaking truth to corrupted power. You said out loud what most Americans think.
Too bad you don't have the power to water-board us all, eh Rumsfeld.
To Mr. Krugman I say, Thank you and bless you and keep speaking truth to power. You struck a chord here and it resonates far and wide.
If only there was justice.
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their denial would not end if we had the will to prosecute them but it warn others inclined to reckless abuses of power
Obama's unwillingness to investigate their _admitted_ crimes is opening the door to even more abuse of power in the future ... and the fact that he is continuing many of Bush's illegal programs makes him one of the abusers, too.
The extremists in our country were allowed a monopoly on how we as a country responded. So a handful of self-righteous extremists exploited the 'patriotism' and economic need of thousands of American working-class, mostly minority service men and women to make millions and billions of dollars of profits on a protracted war.
How long must this go on before it's 'worth it'?
But at the same time he needs to investigate their crimes and prosecute them.
History will not forget these Neocons; the thousands killed, the Billions blown and the horrendous "Air-conditione d" Green Zone.
I weep for the innocents killed on 9/11 NOT the "Mission Accomplished" Naive Americans who bought what the Bush PR machine was selling regarding Iraq.
History must stamp them as two of the most diabolical poltical characters of all time.
Here is the country of origin of the terrorists:
Fifteen of the attackers were from Saudi Arabia, two from the United Arab Emirates, one from Egypt, and one from Lebanon. Yet we hurried off to attack IRaq????? Saudi Arabia one of our staunch allies are always above board. AAARGH! Even when they practice the harshest form of Muslim laws and treat women like trash even today!
Bin Laden's family in the USA was hustled out of the USA by CIA days after the 9/11.
It really is the fault of the American people to be hoodwinked by these rascals and never seriouly asking for answers to these provacative facts.
http://other98.com/i-stand-with-paul-krugman/
Rummy cancels his subscription to one of the most efficient media purveyors of his BIG LIE?? That piece of crap "journalist" Judith Miller, in various pieces written for the NYT, with info leaked from Scooter, Cheney, et al greased the skids for the US slide into that propaganda horror that became the Iraq War.
The NYT and that other "lefty" paper, The WashPost are guilty of anc complicit in lying to the American people and dragging us into illegal wars that have cost us thousands of lives and breathless tens of thousands of grievously crippled soldiers so that Halliburton, Cheney, Bushies, et al could be enriched. And now they are running around, re-packaging their pack of un-American lies under the guise of "memoirs". Makes me really want to puke all over their Italian leather shoes.
They should all be rounded up and tried as war criminals.
Few who were connected with alternative media, such as this one or DemocracyNow! et al., bought into the WMD scam nor the complicity of Iraq in 9/11. But look what happened to those who opposed the outcry to depose Hussein and take over Iraq. Donovan lost his job and his career for merely suggesting caution, Joe Wilson was vilified for exposing the yellow cake forgery and his wife outed as an agent, Blitz was demonized for his findings, and so on down the line. Tenet's pathetic apologia leaves no doubt where the pressure was coming from--from Cheney's office.
The lot of them--Cheney, Rumsfelt, Wolfowits, Rove et al. belong in prison for crimes against humanity.
It was well documented (PNAC)that this element of criminals who lurk beneath the surface were praying for a "catastrophic or cataclysmic event" to invade Iraq. (Certainly charging into Iran was given considerable thought.)
"Everything is different now," we were informed. Everyone believed this BS hook, line, and sinker. It was the right wing's watershed event to change the world as we know it and to finally define a replacement enemy for the old Soviet Union. Enemies fuel War Inc. New ones will always be defined and created to wet the appetities of the ignorant masses.
I didn't realize Rumsfield was literate, I doubt whether he actually had subscription.
Biggest show of greed was the need to build again on that site and not to have dedicated it to those who died. Money, money, money...no one was rich enough!
Buildings will only cast a shadow on the need to uncover what really happened...
For those Families, Friends of 9/11 Do not leave the embarrassment of that Evil Administration reflect on your Memories or our Thoughts for you all.
I just have to be sure.... Is this the SAME Donald Rumsfeld appearing in this video.... or perhaps just a look-alike with the same name.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mr2FupUE0V8&feature=related
Ha-ha-ha-ha-ha! Did he stamp his little foot?
Rummy, Cheney, Rove and the Howdy Doody puppet are bigger than life Tammany Hall figures. Who cares what any of them think? What Krugman said was the biting truth.
Michael Moore described Rumsfeld and Cheney best when he said, "They remind me of every man who ever fired my father."
Wouldn't it be nice if thousands of others subscribed with a note saying "To help fill the void left by Mr. Rumsfeld".
Ha!
....And DON'T forget the TEA-KLUX-KLANIC ANS to complete the set.
[quote name="angelfish "]The entire Bush/Cheney Regime should be careful that America doesn't EVENTUALLY cancel THEM in a Court of Law, preferably the Hague! I'd give my eye teeth to see these egregious Basta**ds charged, tried and convicted of their Heinous crimes against America and Humanity! I want to see them stand up in Court and explain away their treachery and lies that have murdered so many people, decimated our Treasury and set American against American with their continued manipulation of truth and distortion of fact. WHERE is JUSTICE for the hundreds of thousands killed, maimed and morally damaged by their duplicity and sheer greed? Until Justice is served, we will NEVER be whole or free again. Justice NOW![/quo
Except for ONE BIG PROBLEM, gfelder: THE COURTS are fill with Reagan, Bush, and Bush II appointees OUT THE WAZOO! I like the idea, but who will take the case or convict them?
It was perfectly clear to me at the time that the Bush administration was feeding us a crock of fertilizer. Except, of course, when Bush told us the reason for attacking Iraq was because "he [Saddam] tried to kill my Daddy".
But apparently, at the time, Miller and Keller took the administration at its word. Reconsidering your position when you learn that you have based that position on someone's lies is not "phoney". Reconsidering you position is the only intellectually honest and journalisticall y ethical and moral thing to do.
"In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-indust rial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist. We must never let the weight of this combination endanger our liberties or democratic processes. We should take nothing for granted. Only an alert and knowledgeable citizenry can compel the proper meshing of the huge industrial and military machinery of defense with our peaceful methods and goals, so that security and liberty may prosper together."
"An alert and knowledgeable citizenry"? Ike's spinning in his grave over that one. Most of us swallowed whole the Cheney/Bush Big Lie, a modern wonder of Orwellian Doublespeak. Rumsfeld, among others, was a willing mouthpiece for that Big Lie, a fatcat bureaucrat paying lip service to "our freedoms", whatever the hell that meant to our young troops being maimed or killed over in the barren sands of Iraq.
Shame indeed.
If we are not ashamed of what we have let this nation do in our names, we should be.
Sooner or later that lot _must_ go to prison for their crimes ... whether through US courts, or the International Criminal Court.
I was just surprised that Rumsfeld has a subscription to the New York Times. Maybe he was hoping the Times would rehire Judith Miller or to use his subscription as a means to reminisce about the "good old days" when the Bush Administration completely corrupted the reporting of Times with respect to the bogus case for an Iraq nuclear, biological and chemical weapons research, development and production programs. Who knows. Rumsfeld is a pretty bizarre personality.
Hang down your head in shame'
Thank you.
Why is it that we are so often plagued in this country to forever live with the tragedies we experience without being able to experience the healing that comes with finality. The Kennedy assasination (anyone believe the official tale of that one?), Viet Nam? Do we believe we were fighting for freedom from Communism? Congratulations if you do, you're probably a healed person. How about the Supreme Court selection of George Bush's second term. There's a tragedy to Democracy that is difficult to swallow. Now 9/11 and Iraq. Saving the Iraqi people from a mean ruler. Unfortunately we had to kill the Iraqi people to save them. I won't even mention the 9/11 Commission's official report of the tragedy. How do we heal? Blind Faith? In characters like Bush, rumsfeld, cheney? Give me a break! And now the blame for the condition of the budget goes to the working class. Only in America!
(Reporter-fabul ous Helen Thomas stated it well after 9/11. She advocated more the Norway approach.)
Wasn't it really all about the cash?? Wasn't Cheney CEO of (new named) Blackwater? They probably divvveeed up a big pile of missing 'mystery' contract $$..half a trillion--the dispicable nasty pieces of _ _ _ _...
C'mon Angelfish! You said Limbum "was a junkie? HE STILL IS!! Can you say "oxycotin?" BTW, coke & crack addicts both smack their lips a lot. You're very much on point.
luxory holiday tour to Europe.
I will finance the trip, knowing that
I only have to pay for the flight tickets, as they will go directly from
the airport to the slammer in The Hague.
HEAR, HEAR!!!
And why?
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