Rumsfeld bashes Obama on Afghanistan, says ‘a trained ape’ could do better

[kpete]

Rumsfeld bashes Obama on Afghanistan, says ‘a trained ape’ could do better

"A trained ape could get a status of forces agreement. It does not take a genius. And we have so mismanaged that relationship."

-- Former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, quoted by the Washington Post, attacking President Obama for failing to secure a status of forces agreement with Afghanistan.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-politics/wp/2014/03/25/rumseld-bashes-obama-on-afghanistan-says-a-trained-ape-could-do-better/

[spanone]

1. fuck don rumsfeld.

[hatrack]

2. Stay classy, you lying psychopathic asshole

[JoePhilly]

3. Osama Bin Laden says "what?"

Oh right, he doesn't say anything ... he's DEAD, and you didn't get him ... now STFU.

[Berlum]

19. The Repubbies FAILED so pathetically under Rummy + AWOL Bush + Five-Military-Deferments Cheney

Now all the Republicons can do is snipe from their hidey holes, and try to drag America down to their level. Pathetic and grossly unpatriotic.

[hobbit709]

4. Then what was his excuse when he was honcho for Fearless Leader?

[City Lights]

5. Look in the mirror, Rummy.

Your track record sucks.

[steve2470]

6. stfu and fuck you rumsfeld nt

[BeyondGeography]

7. Rummy on Fox

What could possibly go wrong?

[steve2470]

8. oh TRAINED APE....hmmmm

of course that was not a racist dog whistle. Of course not.

[Erich Bloodaxe BSN]

18. You're right, it wasn't.

dog whistles are far more subtle. That was just blatant and in your face racial bigotry.

[steve2470]

23. He would say "what ??"

"I always say trained ape when I mean, ' person with a mental deficiency '. "

So, yea, you're right.

[Erich Bloodaxe BSN]

26. He should be saying it from his jail cell.

I think the defining moment in screwing up the country for generations to come was the pardon issued to Nixon. No man should be 'above the law', including the President. After that, it was inevitable that future administrations would simply sweep the crimes of their predecessors under the rug, rather than invite charges that prosecutions were politically motivated.

[steve2470]

28. agree 100% nt

[freebrew]

30. +1000

and like Gingrich...why is anyone listening to this asshat?

[dixiegrrrrl]

21. amazingly racist, to be sure.

I am truly stunned to witness how deep racism still runs in this country
and that it surfaces so very quickly even among people who have access to public microphones.

[Enrique]

9. remember when he was our Sec of Defense

and the media was calling him a "sex symbol" and "matinee idol"?

how weird was that?

[JohnRogan]

10. Rummy was referring to W I guess,...

or a Latter Day Saints bishop

[HughBeaumont]

11. In a civilized world, Rumsferatu would be rotting in the HAGUE.

Right alongside the rest of his war criminal cohorts.

Stupid evil bastard.

[n2doc]

13. + a googolplex n/t

[Hayduke Bomgarte]

12. Uh

The trained ape he worked under didn't do better.

So. Donald. Really. STFU!

[Warren Stupidity]

14. Racism, stupidity, and hubris all in one big gulp.

[Jefferson23]

15. Sickening, Rumsfeld should have been tried for his war crimes. I hope you live a long life, criminal

snip* Although Bush has immunized Rumsfeld and others from prosecution in the International Criminal Court, they could be tried in any country under the well-established principle of universal jurisdiction.

http://www.alternet.org/story/44213/the_war_crimes_case_against_donald_rumsfeld

[RC]

16. That should be Donald "Rumsfeld"

[kpete]

25. thanks RC

for that

peace, kp

[Erich Bloodaxe BSN]

17. Gosh, no racism on display in THAT statement.... nt

[Brigid]

20. This is why I would make a lousy president.

Like John Adams, I would be just temperamentally unsuited for the job. I would take crap like this personally, as he did. Obama does not. I don't know how he does it. I really don't. I think that's the question I would ask him if I could.

[Le Taz Hot]

22. Well, if anyone's an expert on trained apes

it's Rumsfeld.

[Solly Mack]

24. War criminals with lots of free time on their hands have lots of free time to say stuff.

[DisgustipatedinCA]

27. Mass murderers don't get to dictate terms

I'll be glad when this one goes back to sit at the right hand of Satan in hell.

[Feral Child]

29. But he didn't mean to invoke

the subconscious racist filter in his audience.

Not that it requires a special trigger...

[rainy]

31. Did the media shoot back

and ask him how he managed 2 trillion lost dollars, war ready equipment, and Iraqis paying for "our spectacular liberation?"

[OLDMDDEM]

32. Rummy

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Rumsfeld has lost all credibility with the people of this nation. I cannot see where anyone other than far right wingnuts would take what he says into consideration for anything other than lying about going to war.

From Daily Kos:

February 2003, speaking on Iraq:

... it is not knowable if force will be used, but if it is to be used, it is not knowable how long that conflict would last. It could last, you know, six days, six weeks. I doubt six months.

March 2003, on weapons of mass destruction:
We know where they are. They're in the area around Tikrit and Baghdad and east, west, south and north somewhat.

[stagmeyer]

33. Trained chimp

Rummy and his trained chimp couldn't even keep the Pentagon in one piece.

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[Orsino]

34. You can't solve a problem at the same level at which it was created. n/t

[TwilightGardener]

35. "Why don't they just load billions of $$ onto pallets for ol' Hamid, like I used to?"

Donald Rumsfeld killed a lot of people, needlessly. He will burn in hell. I don't worry about what comes out of his obnoxious pie hole.

[Baitball Blogger]

36. Not everyone can help influence a war to kill off their mistakes, eh rummy?

[rock]

37. Know any trained apes?

OK how about an untrained one? (Maybe even two!)

[jwirr]

38. I find it telling that all we ever hear from the gop is a bunch of failed has-beens.

[FiveGoodMen]

40. Bad news is: The world still goes the way THEY want it to

[JHB]

39. Backseat driving from a drunk-driver who sent a bus off a cliff

Rumsfeld has a typical neocon's great confidence in his evaluation of international situations despite repeatedly being shown that they'd been completely wrong.