{"id":120,"date":"2004-09-24T22:17:18","date_gmt":"2004-09-25T02:17:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.angryredplanet.org\/log\/archives\/2004\/09\/24\/donald-rumsfeld-is-insane\/"},"modified":"2007-11-07T11:09:39","modified_gmt":"2007-11-07T16:09:39","slug":"donald-rumsfeld-is-insane","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.angryredplanet.org\/log\/2004\/09\/24\/donald-rumsfeld-is-insane\/","title":{"rendered":"donald rumsfeld is insane"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>~ as if to drive home our point that they* will say any crazy thing to make us believe that night is day and that cats are dogs, our secretary of defense spins this web:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;We had something like 200 or 300 or 400 people killed in many of the major cities of America last year. Is it perfectly peaceful? No. What&#8217;s the difference? We just didn&#8217;t see each homicide in every major city in the United States on television every night.&#8221;<cite> &#8211;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.defenselink.mil\/transcripts\/2004\/tr20040924-secdef1326.html\">donald rumsfeld<\/a><\/cite><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>what is the punchline here? that there is a difference between random urban crime and methodical mechanized killing of 1,040+ dead american troops and 10,000+ iraqi civilians? or is it that if we shouldn&#8217;t be concerned about the death in iraq then by extension we must also think it acceptable that &#8220;200 or 300 or 400&#8221; citizens are killed in our cities each year?<\/p>\n<p>remember when we used to employ eunuchs to guard our harems? a similar tactic should be used for secretaries of defense; it is not necessary that they be castrated, but rather they need to not be deranged psychos who don&#8217;t let death weigh heavily on their consciences. <\/p>\n<p>* republicans, conservatives, evangelicals, neocons, fundamentalists, right wing are not always the same thing; we need a term than encompasses all of them, the way &#8216;liberal&#8217; has been reconstructed to mean anything that &#8216;the right&#8217; thinks is bad.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>~ as if to drive home our point that they* will say any crazy thing to make us believe that night is day and that cats are dogs, our secretary of defense spins this web: &#8220;We had something like 200 or 300 or 400 people killed in many of the major cities of America last [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[20,48],"class_list":["post-120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-hypocrisy","tag-iraq"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.angryredplanet.org\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.angryredplanet.org\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.angryredplanet.org\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.angryredplanet.org\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.angryredplanet.org\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=120"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.angryredplanet.org\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.angryredplanet.org\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.angryredplanet.org\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.angryredplanet.org\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}