31 Replies to “Is There A Donald Rumsfeld In The House?”

  5. Postponing elections for the FOURTH TIME!?! Oh I bet PM Paul Martin would like that if he could reengineer his current campaign.
    It would appear the Haitian authorities don’t have a strong interest in holding an election as they have fairly good idea of the outcome.
    This would fall under the rubric:
    “Necessarily democracy, but not democracy necessarily”. IE you can have democracy as long as you vote the “right” way.
    Don Rumsfeld? Let’s see RUMSFELD or in english RUMS FIELD. Yes they do make rum in Haiti, so please pour me a glass and mix some egg nog as the Christmas season is not quite done.
    Those wise men from the east may be dropping some coal in the government shoes.

  6. Maybe the UN needs to keep milking this for a while longer – otherwise they’ll have a bunch of ‘officials’ with nothing to do?

  7. Maybe all the Haitians need is some more bureaucrats. Come January 23, Canada should have a few extra that we could send them.

  8. Ben Stein looks back at the bubble/flowerpower. All a mirage: a narcissistic nightmare.
    Looks ahead to 2006 with one resolution:Show his gratitude to the “Brave Hearts” who protect him and all of us.>>
    And my favorite moments now, lying in bed in front of the fire, wind blowing through the palm fronds outside, with the dogs and my wife, napping while the dogs snore and my wife reads her mysteries: and all while far better men and women than we are fight and die in Iraq and Afghanistan and their families live in terror back home.
    A glorious moment: speaking as valedictorian of my class at Yale Law, ’70, talking airily about peace and love and gardens of Eden, and all the while, as I chattered in my bubble, high on something, I am sure, with my coterie of girls watching and oooh-and-ahhing, far better humans than I, with far better claims to human decency than I, with far closer relations to the Almighty, were being held in prison camps and torture chambers in Vietnam.
    Now that I think of it, every moment that’s great in my life shares the same foundation: we live large thanks to those who serve in difficult, life-threatening places and ways.
    So, as the science fiction year of 2006 dawns, my main resolution is to keep in mind the guys in whose shadows we all walk, behind whose shields we all live, the men and women of the U.S. Armed Forces, and God bless them and their families in 2006 and forever. >>
    spectator.org
    via newsbeat1.com

  9. That was well said, …”to keep in mind the guys in whose shadows we all walk” … a truly worthwhile resolution for 2006 … thank you for sharing it with us

  10. maybe install our GG after as Queen. send Adrianne Clarkson down as a warmup act so when the current GG arrives the Haitians think they are saving money.

  11. Here is the enemy, Mr. Martin.>>
    RoP Strikes in Indonesia
    In the same Indonesian province where three Christian schoolgirls were recently decapitated by emissaries of the Religion of Peace�: Indonesia bomb leaves eight dead.
    At least eight people have been killed and 45 hurt by a bomb blast at a market in Indonesia�s Central Sulawesi province, police say.
    Witnesses in the town of Palu reported seeing bodies lying on the ground after hearing a deafening blast. The bomb exploded in the busy morning hours at a stall selling pork in a largely Christian part of the town.
    The province�s Christians have been repeatedly targeted in recent attacks blamed on Muslim militants.
    Police officials said the bomb was packed with nails and ball bearings.>>>
    via LGF

  12. MAZ2….”far better humans that I, with far better claims to human decency than I, with far closer relations to the Almighty, were being held in prison camps and torture chambers in Vietnam.”
    If I remember correctly they were called Gooks and Slopeheads by their US torturers.

  13. The United States Marine Corps ruled Haiti in the 1930’s and many older people in Haiti referred to that time as a ‘golden age’ of peace. This was from interviews they did for a documentary on TV more than twenty years ago. An interesting fact but it’s unlikely the USMC would want the task today.
    Haiti needs a lot of help but unfortunately those crooks at the United Nations are probably the worst ‘benefactors’ around. Too bad NATO is busy. A legitimate force that would shoot dead gang members on sight would be a positive first step for that country.

  14. “A legitimate force that would shoot dead gang members on sight would be a positive first step for that country.”
    Perhaps a good place to practice would be the streets of Toronto. Then move on across Canada to Vancouver. This would be good training for a campaign in Haiti.
    Mary. “If I remember correctly they were called Gooks and Slopeheads by their US torturers.” Could you flesh those comments out a bit please?

  15. Perhaps Mary refers to the tens of thousands of ‘Gooks and Slopeheads’ that escaped Vietnam under risk if death from starvation, disease, drowning and pirates, AFTER the U.S. forces left. What was it they were fleeing from, Communist compassion perhaps?

  16. John Crittenden
    The Vietnam Veterans Against the War website has an excellent article titled — Torture Is an American Value: Reality vs. the Rhetoric — written by S. Brian Willson, a former USAF officer stationed in Vietnam in 1969. It’s also worth looking into the activities of the School of the Americas via Google.

  17. jon
    I was pointing out that the thousands of Vietnamese who were tortured during the US invasion and occupation of Vietnam were called Gooks and Slopeheads by their US torturers.
    Perhaps many of the Vietnamese who fled when the US pulled out left because they didn’t want to raise hideously deformed Agent Orange babies.

  18. Perhaps it should be remember that many thousands of American soldiers were also brutally treated by the Vietnamese. War is hell. If the MSM had reported the war fairly many Americans who originally refused to support the war may well have changed their minds. Some, of course, simply hated America and still do. Jane Fonda comes to mind.
    It’s too bad America didn’t stay and finish the job in my opinion.
    That being said, I, too, find fault with many things America has done over the years. But America remains the one country in the world that is free, at least for a little while longer. Can’t say that about Canada any more.

  19. I should have added…
    Thanks for the links Mary. I will read them. But I think it is important to read what both sides say. It’s easy to find fault with anyone who steps up to the plate and attempts to do something like, say, defending democracy or some silly thing like that.
    For instance, I know there are still many who think it would have been better to have not invaded Iraq and to have left Saddam Hussein and his sons to rule with wood chippers and public hangings, or rather, slow public strangulation.

  20. Remembering American soldiers who were brutally treated by the Vietnamese is akin to remembering the German soldiers who were brutally treated by the Russians after the siege of Leningrad. A case of misplaced sympathy most Russians would say. And to be sure there are still some old German soldiers who think Hitler should have sent more men and materials so they could have finished the job.
    As for freedom in America, talk to the people who live on Reservations in their own homeland.
    Yes it is important to read what both sides have to say. Unfortunately some people were on the receiving end of Manifest Destiny and their voices, Tribes, Nations no longer exist.
    What’s the current number of Iraqis killed by US and coalition soldiers since the invasion, and do you believe they died happy because an American or a Brit killed them and their wives and children?

  21. That would be why the departing American troops pushed helicpoters into the sea, to make more room for fleeing Vietnamese on their “war”ships.
    Mary, I didn’t see any links to the Pol Pot regime. Perhaps you should review the history of what came after.

  22. Hey Mary, would you be happier if Saddam or Usay had killed those Iraqis? Perhaps you prefer the Spanish treatment of First Nations people? And as for how the Russians and Germans treated each others’ soldiers, it pales in comparision to how Stalin treated any Russian soldier who was returned to Russia after the hostilities ended. Maybe tonight, try your New Years vodka without the Kool-Aid.

  23. Kate, I can’t seem to come up with any reasonable excuses for the the mass killing, torturing and maiming of innocent human beings, even when it isn’t an aspect of US foreign policy, or happens to have been the domestic policy of a Pol Pot.

  24. Mary, are you equating America to Nazi Germany?
    Don’t talk to me about the treatment of Indians. I agree with you. It’s no different in Canada. It still exists and the Department of Indian and Northern Affairs is racist to the core in my opinion. Why don’t you do something about it instead of using it as an excuse for your other views?
    “What’s the current number of Iraqis killed by US and coalition soldiers since the invasion, and do you believe they died happy because an American or a Brit killed them and their wives and children?”
    Not enough in my opinion. They should have levelled Fallujah the first time and not as many Iraqis or Americans would have died since. As I’ve said many times, there was a good reason Dresdan was bombed into rubble and two big bombs were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

  25. rebarbarian
    Give your thickened head a good shake! Everybody knows it’s much more palatable to have people butchered by Americans. In the Middle East it goes without saying that being ripped apart by a grenade thrown by a US Marine is way more humane than if it was launched by some A-rab. And it’s also common knowledge that Russian soldiers who got nailed by Stalin all wished they could have been on the wrong end of a German flamethrower.

  26. John Crittenden
    Equating America to Nazi Germany? They both had their own version of Manifest Destiny which required the removal and/or extermination of human beings and the occupation of their land.
    The reason that Dresden, Hiroshima and Nagasaki were leveled was, in the end, business as usual.
    Iraqi men, women and children were/are being slaughtered to secure oil supplies for the US and the UK. Business as usual.

  27. There you go. It’s all about the oil. Of course you don’t mean the oil contracts that France, Russia and Germany had with Hussein before the war and knew they would lose if Hussein was taken out. And oh yes, if the big bad Americans were really after the oil, how come they’re not getting it? How come France and Russia are once again signing legitimate oil contracts with a legitimate Iraqi government?
    With all due respect Mary, you’re not going to win. This is an armed camp. 🙂
    Happy New Year Kate and everyone! You too Mary!

  28. Anyone who has difficulty with the dilemma of moral equivalence in conflicts involving America need only ask themselves which direction the refugee boats are pointed.

  29. John
    What I should have said was….
    For George W. Bush so love-ethed the Iraqi people-a that he swamm-ethed across the great ocean of tribulation-a to rescue them from the vile clutches of spawn-a of-a Satan-a… Saddam-a the EVIL DOER-A. And verily Bush-a, the bringer of light to his Iraqi flock-a sayeth unto them, Iraqi oil shalt-a be traded in-a US-a dollars-a and not the Euro as proposed-a by EVIL Saddam-a. And the people of Iraq forgot that they had been invaded by a foreign power and lived happily ever after. Amen.

  30. If you happened to be one of the unlucky Panamanians who got blown to bits by American bombs, or a Guatemalan or El Salvadorian or a Nicaraguan who got tortured and murdered by US sponsored right wing death squads, a boat would do you as much good as a can of ski wax.

  31. “The United States Marine Corps ruled Haiti in the 1930’s and many older people in Haiti referred to that time as a ‘golden age’ of peace. This was from interviews they did for a documentary on TV more than twenty years ago. An interesting fact but it’s unlikely the USMC would want the task today.”
    Several Points:
    1930’s Haiti was a much nicer place, less over populated, less environmentally ruined, less bloodily stupid.
    In the 1930’s the USMC could kill people, kick butts and take names, and “round up the usual suspects”. i.e. Brutally enforce order : It strongly encouraged good behaviour and worked reasonably.
    That doesn;t work now, you’d be called racist, etc…and the locals know it. My RCMP cousin returned from a multi month tour with the UN “peacekeepers” there (and normally a very sweet and forgiving person, for a cop) states simply “Disband the UN, nuke Haiti, one isn’t helpful, the other isn’t saveable.”
    By the way they speak Creole in Haiti, a partially French dialect/language.

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