Rumsfeld: Ramp up information warfare

[unhappycamper]

Rumsfeld: Ramp up information warfare
By William Matthews
Posted : Wednesday Jan 23, 2008 21:25:03 EST

The U.S. military can’t fight the war on terrorism alone. It needs help from a host of other U.S. government agencies, including a new one that should be created to use the Internet to wage an information offensive against Muslim extremists, former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said Jan. 23.

In an address to an information warfare conference, Rumsfeld said the United States is “sitting on the sidelines” in a global battle of ideas. “We’re barely competing,” and for that reason we are losing, he said.

Islamic radicals are winning despite the fact that they blow up mosques, kill women and children and publicly behead their foes, Rumsfeld said.

The United States needs a “21st-century agency for global communications” to use modern methods to spread the United States’ message about the importance of democracy and freedom, much as the U.S. Information Agency spread that message during the Cold War, he said.

The USIA was folded into the State Department in 1999 and the United States “lost a valued tool to help tell the story of a nation that was carved from the wilderness and conceived in freedom,” Rumsfeld told an audience of military members and defense contractors.


Rest of article at: http://www.armytimes.com/news/2008/01/defense_rumsfeld_080123/


uhc comment: Will this fucker ever go away?

[jimshoes]

1. He's like one of the un-dead

A vampire that never dies. Rumsferatu is one of his many monikers and for good reason it seems. What a horrible excuse for a human being he is.

[Sweet Pea]

2. Hate the messenger

but do you have a problem with the message?

[Peace Patriot]

3. Rumsfeld first proposed this web psyops agency to counter Hugo Chavez and

the South American left.

"The Smart Way to Beat Tyrants Like Chávez," by Donald Rumsfeld, 12/1/07
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/11/30/AR2007113001800.html

And we thought he was "retired"!

My prognosis: Oil War II: South America. This year. First target: Bolivia. (Rumsfeldian destabilization is working better there than in Venezuela or Ecuador. Bolivia, Venezuela, Ecuador--all with leftist governments--are allies; I think the plan is to draw Venezuela and Ecuador into a bloody conflict over the fascist plan to split off Bolivia's resource-rich rural provinces from the central government of Bolivia's first indigenous president, Evo Morales. In the above article, Rumsfeld says we need to get rid of the obstructionism ("checks and balances") in our own government--i.e., Congress--so the U.S. can "act swiftly" in support of "friends and allies" in South America. He's talking about U.S. military intervention. Bolivia is the most likely place - where Rumsfeld "friends and allies" will declare "independence," use fascist militias to start the conflict, and request U.S. support for their "independence." As to the urgency Rumsfeld seems to feel, Ecuador's president has promised to kick the U.S. military out of Ecuador this year, and Rumsfeld and Cartel are hugely losing the psyops/dirty tricks war on democracy in South America. They need something big to create chaos with--and get billions more U.S. military dollars into South America, for the larger goal of restoring corporate/fascist control of Venezuela's and Ecuador's big oil reserves--and stopping the highly successful movement against U.S. domination/"war on drugs"/"free trade"/World Bank-IMF loan sharks.)

Who does Rumsfeld hate the most--Islamic "terrorists" or elected leaders in democratic countries who think oil profits should be used to bootstrap the poor?

I think it's a toss-up, and he possibly hates democrats more than he hates "terrorists." In any case, whoever he hates, you know they have...

...LOTS OF OIL!

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Here's one of the web sites that Rumsfeld's proposed "internet psyops" agency is meant to counter. I recommend it for an alternative view of Hugo Chavez and Venezuela (alternative to our war profiteering corporate news monopolies/Bush State Dept.): www.venezuelanalysis.com.