Donald Rumsfeld
US - part of the 'Axis of Evil' that forms the foundation of the current global pathocracy.
George W. Bush; "Well, I think if you say you're going to do something, and you don't do it, that's trustworthiness."
Dick Cheney
- Dick Cheney :
- "On the security front, I think there's a general consensus that we've made major progress, that the surge has worked. That's been a major success."
- Martha Raddatz [ABC White House correspondent]:
- "Two-third of Americans say it's not worth fighting."
- Dick Cheney :
- "So?"
- Martha Raddatz :
- "So? You don't care what the American people think?"
- Dick Cheney :
- "No. I think you cannot be blown off course by the fluctuations in the public opinion polls."
Project For The New American Century
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Military Industrial Complex - the 'iron triangle' of the main centres of control (finance, power and vested-interest) within a pathocracy: government, military and industry.
Psychopathy - a pathological condition caused by either heredity or physical trauma which results in a total lack of conscience or empathy; the driving force that creates pathocracy.
Military Industrial Complex - the 'iron triangle' of the main centres of control (finance, power and vested-interest) within a pathocracy: government, military and industry.
9-11
- Donald Rumsfeld :
- There were lots of warnings. The intelligence information that we get, it sometimes runs into the hundreds of alerts or pieces of intelligence a week. One looks at the worldwide, it's thousands. And the task is to sort through it and see what you can find. And as you find things, the law enforcement officials who have the responsibility to deal with that type of thing -- the FBI at the federal level, and although it is not, it's an investigative service as opposed to a police force, it's not a federal police force, as you know. But the state and local law enforcement officials have the responsibility for dealing with those kinds of issues.
They [find a lot] and any number of terrorist efforts have been dissuaded, deterred or stopped by good intelligence gathering and good preventive work. It is a truth that a terrorist can attack any time, any place, using any technique and it's physically impossible to defend at every time and every place against every conceivable technique. Here we're talking about plastic knives and using an American Airlines flight filled with our citizens, and the missile to damage this building [The Pentagon] and similar (inaudible) that damaged the World Trade Center.
Source: Pentagon Official News Service
[from transcript of interview with Parade magazine]
- Spencer Ackerman :
- Rumsfeld managed to be the first secretary of defense in history not just to botch two wars, but to botch two wars simultaneously. For that, no one should ever listen to this man ever again. Whatever he says is discredited by the sheer fact that he's the one saying it. He should be legally obligated to end of all his sentences with, “…but, on the other hand, I'm a total jackass."
- Martha Stout :
- Imagine - if you can - not having a conscience, none at all, no feelings of guilt or remorse no matter what you do, no limiting sense of concern of the well-being of strangers, friends, or even family members. Imagine no struggles with shame, not a single one in your whole life, no matter what kind of selfish, lazy, harmful, or immoral action you had taken. And pretend that the concept of responsibility is unknown to you, except as a burden others seem to accept without question, like gullible fools. Now add to this strange fantasy the ability to conceal from other people that your psychological makeup is radically different from theirs. Since everyone simply assumes that conscience is universal among human beings, hiding the fact that you are conscience-free is nearly effortless. You are not held back from any of your desires by guilt or shame, and you are never confronted by others for your cold-bloodedness. The ice water in your veins is so bizarre, so completely outside of their personal experience that they seldom even guess at your condition.
- In other words, you are completely free of internal restraints, and your unhampered liberty to do just as you please, with no pangs of conscience, is conveniently invisible to the world. You can do anything at all, and still your strange advantage over the majority of people, who are kept in line by their consciences, will most likely remain undiscovered.
- Starbuck :
- So, barely competent and paranoid? That's a hell of a combination.
The Pentagon's Missing Trillions
- Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld declared war on Pentagon Bureaucracy the day before 9/11 when he addressed the TWO POINT THREE TRILLION DOLLARS that went missing at the Pentagon: "According to some estimates we cannot track $2.3 trillion in transactions," Rumsfeld said he identified the adversary: "the adversary's closer to home. It's the Pentagon bureaucracy," he also added that "In fact, it could be said it's a matter of life and death,".
Source: 'CBS News'
On Milton Friedman
- Donald Rumsfeld :
- Milton is the emodiment of the truth that 'ideas have consequences'
- Naomi Klein :
- What I want to argue here is that, the economic chaos that we're seeing right on Wall Street, and on Main Street, and in Washington, stems from many factors of course, but among them are the ideas of Milton Friedman
Source: 'Shock Doctrine' by Naomi Klein