Rumsfeld's Evil Mind and the Military Industrial Complex

In a series of internal musings and memos just released to the Washington Post, to his staff, then-Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld argued that Muslims avoid "physical labor" and wrote of the need to "keep elevating the threat," "link Iraq to Iran" and develop "bumper sticker statements" to rally public support for an increasingly unpopular war.

Rumsfeld issues directives quite often at the Pentagon sometimes up to 6o per day. These directives were called "snowflakes" and regarded anything from Iraq to internal policy. It is a look into a man that has nothing, but contempt for the American people and democracy.

In one "snowflake" he wrote, when a series of retired generals denounced him and called for his resignation in newspaper op-ed pieces, "Talk about Somalia, the Philippines, etc. Make the American people realize they are surrounded in the world by violent extremists," he wrote.

The only man to hold the top Pentagon job twice -- as both the youngest and the oldest defense secretary -- Rumsfeld suggested that the public should know that there will be no "terminal event" in the fight against terrorism like the signing ceremony on the USS Missouri when Japan surrendered to end World War II. "It is going to be a long war," he wrote. "Iraq is only one battleground."

Based on the discussion with military analysts, Rumsfeld tied Iran and Iraq. "Iran is the concern of the American people, and if we fail in Iraq, it will advantage Iran," he wrote in his April 2006 memo.

The memos or snowflakes are disturbing and have nothing to do with the safety of Iraq or the American people, only that we need to win the war, though nearly every expert thought his policies of de-bathification and the war strategy were entirely flawed.

It indemnifies the perception that this administration was completely incompetent, arrogant and set on doing anything to achieve their goals, which seems is to privatize the entire government.

In a related point the site truthdig has a piece on the get rich schemes of military contractors and the profit of war. I have excerpted a few paragraphs from the article that is much more compelling to read the entire article and you should.

Lockheed Martin, the nation’s top weapons manufacturer, reaped a 22 percent increase in profits, while rivals for the defense buck, Northrop Grumman and General Dynamics, increased profits by 62 percent and 22 percent, respectively. Boeing’s profits jumped 61 percent, spiked this quarter by its commercial division, but Boeing’s military division, like the others, has been doing very well indeed since the terrorist attacks. As Newsweek International put in August: “Since 9/11 and the U.S.-led wars that followed, shares in American defense companies have outperformed both the Nasdaq and Standard & Poor’s stock indices by some 40 percent. Prior to the recent cascade of stock prices worldwide, Boeing’s share prices had tripled over the past five years while Raytheon’s had doubled.”

Thanks to bin Laden and Bush’s exploitation of “war on terror” hysteria, the taxpayers have been hoodwinked into paying for a sophisticated military arsenal to fight a Soviet enemy that no longer exists. The Institute for Policy Studies calculated last year that the top 34 CEOs of the defense industry have earned a combined billion dollars since 9/11; they should give bin laden his cut.

It sparked crooks and liars to post the video below of Eisenhower's fairwell speech that warned of a growing "military industrial complex." He warns that the defense industry could take over the spoils of war and make war for profit purposes. This is not a liberal mind you, this is the greatest general in American history who made his life's work on war. It is as prophetic a speech as you will ever find.