The Holy War We're Totally Not Fighting

[BlueJessamine]

Pith In the Wind

By Ashley Spurgeon in Crazy Crap, Politics, Presidential Politics

http://blogs.nashvillescene.com/pitw/2009/05/the_holy_war_were_totally_not.php

A GQ piece on Donald Rumsfeld has been making the rounds lately and boy is it ever juicy. Long story short: he's an asshole and everyone hates him. The one Bush administration official who didn't want this guy to run across a rabid bear from the get-go was, unsurprisingly, Bush himself. Rumsfeld was able to Eddie Haskell his way into relatively unquestioned power within the administration by basically talking down to our simple former leader. With hilarious (disastrous) results!

Rumsfeld was aware (like we all are) that our last President is a religious man who is wholly incapable of putting his Christianity into context. Rummy carried on and expanded a tradition of handing over classified reports on the Middle East...covered in Bible quotes. Question: was anyone, anywhere, ever naïve enough to think that Bush was an actual statesman making logical, calculated decisions about the real world? Oh really, like half the country? We are so screwed.

The slideshow must be seen to be believed. The cover pages of the document that was "a daily digest of critical military intelligence so classified that it circulated among only a handful of Pentagon leaders and the president" looked like they were shat from a Kirkland's catalog. The out-of-context scripture juxtaposed with images of American troops fighting a war against Muslim guerillas in various parts of the Middle East apparently rubbed some former Bush administration officials the wrong way because NO DUH. They're the anonymous high school mean girls dishing on Rumsfeld now, but you know what? Too little too late.

Putting aside the fact that this practice was Constitutionally terrifying at worst and inappropriate at best, there are still many nits to pick with the cover sheets. Like, were there any graphic designers in Rumsfeld's employ? Couldn't someone have at least maintained some font consistency?

[rgbecker]

1. You want font consistency from a guy who stands 8 to 10 hours a day?!?