The Real Rumsfeld ???

Here is Scott Ritter's evaluation of the late Donald Rumsfeld:

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/56623.htm

Although it may never be proven, Rumsfeld's suspected role in 9/11 overshadows anything in Ritter's op-ed/obit. It's difficult to believe he and Cheney were NOT at the heart of what happened that day, but whatever the case they were among the chief architects of the US response to it ... and that alone assures their place in the Nine Circles of Hell.

And here's a few additional thoughts about Rumsfeld by Edward Curtin:

Then as I sit here my brief peace is roiled by the memory of reading Tacitus, the Roman historian, and his famous quote of Calgacus, an enemy of Rome:

"These plunderers of the world [the Romans], after exhausting the land by their devastations, are rifling the ocean: stimulated by avarice, if their enemy be rich; by ambition, if poor; unsatiated by the East and by the West: the only people who behold wealth and indigence with equal avidity. To ravage, to slaughter, to usurp under false titles, they call empire; and where they make a desert, they call it peace."

I think of former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld on his recent deathbed.  Here was a man whose entire life was dedicated to the American Empire.  He spent all his allotted time making war or making money from the spoils of war.  He was a desert maker, a slaughterer for the Empire.  No doubt he died very rich in gold.

Source - https://dissidentvoice.org/2021/07/drinking-coffee-in-the-early-morning-rain-and-thinking-of-donald-rumsfeld/