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* May. 14th, 2008 at 12:59 PM
Rumsfeld:
"That's what I was just going to say. This President's pretty much a
victim of success. We haven't had an attack in five years. The
perception of the threat is so low in this society that it's not
surprising that the behavior pattern reflects a low threat
assessment. The same thing's in Europe, there's a low threat
perception. The correction for that, I suppose, is an attack."
Rumsfeld On 2006 Election: "The Correction For That...Is An Attack"
May 13, 2008
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An ongoing exploration of the documents related to the Pentagon's
"message force multipliers" program has unearthed a clip of former
Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld suggesting that America, having
voted the Democrats back into Congressional power, could benefit
from suffering another terrorist attack, and doing so in the
presence of the very same military analysts who went on to provide
commentary and analysis of the Iraq War.
As documented by Newsvine, it all went down at a valedictory
luncheon Rumsfeld hosted for those analysts on December 12, 2006.
Many of the "message force multipliers" named in the original New
York Times piece were in attendance, including David L. Grange,
Donald W. Sheppard, James Marks, Rick Francona, Wayne Downing, and
Robert H. Scales, Jr. They were treated to an extraordinary
conversation (Newsvine has highlights, the hour-long clip of which
can be found here) with Rumsfeld, that included many jaw-dropping
moments, such as Rumsfeld admitting that in Iraq, the U.S. "can't
lose militarily, but...can't win by military means alone," an
agreement that Iraq could use a Syngman Rhee-type dictator (because
that's what democracy smells like!), and a lengthy passage where
Rumsfeld jokingly offers a bottle of champagne to anyone who could
kill Moqtada al Sadr. You sure don't see too many people joking on
al Sadr these days!
But by far the most extraordinary part of this luncheon is the
antipathy the gathered members exhibit toward the American people
for having the temerity to vote the Democrats back into power. When
Lt. Gen. Michael DeLong bemoans the lack of "sympathetic ears" on
Capitol Hill, Rumsfeld offers that the American people lack "the
maturity to recognize the seriousness of the threats." What's to be
done? According to Rumsfeld, "The correction for that, I suppose, is
[another] attack.
