(np) good article for today

[Mark Kohut]

Did I miss a satire here?. The Intercept-- of investigative reporting is
all I know of them---did a sly Swiftian piece on
Rummy?...where's the clue?.......

On Sun, Sep 12, 2021 at 6:20 PM Michael Bailey <michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com>
wrote:

> ---------- Forwarded message ---------
> From: Michael Bailey <michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com>
> Date: Sun, Sep 12, 2021 at 5:38 PM
> Subject: Re: (np) good article for today
> To: Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com>
>
>
> But the reason they wanted to cobble together an excuse to attack Iraq — is
> that deep seated need for control and empery that the article’s premises
> (go way over the top to) limn…
>
> Perhaps the author even knows he is hyperbolizing (which Pynchon never
> does, of course) by the time he gets to Rumsfeld figuring that bombing Iraq
> will get his daughter to break up with the white guy with dreadlocks?
>
> Yeah, Rumsfeld, great dude who had no trouble ramrodding approval for
> NutraSweet thru FDA over vigorous objections of scientists, and then
> accepting $12 million from Monsanto after they bought Searle. And I’m sure
> he was a lot of help at the Pentagon…
>
> Not to speak ill of the dead. Requiescat in pace, Rummie, you go to the
> Bardo Thodol with the karma you’ve got, not the karma you might want.
> And nobody’s perfect. God bless and heaven help us all.
>
>  But I think the Interceptor was right: the war on terror was itself mondo
> scary, and reflects the personalities of its architects.
>
>
> On Sun, Sep 12, 2021 at 4:53 AM Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > What the Interceptor guy wrote is ridiculous; the way so many feelingful,
> > idealistic progressives go into fantasyland, into
> > being mirrors of Right Wing crazies. Conspiracy explanations beyond
> > reality all the time.
> >
> > Knowing a little history--looking it up-- and refusing to be so stupid
> > will lead one to understand that what Rumsfeld was talking about
> > was bad enough just as it was: wanting to gather all the info he could to
> > justify--lead to---the conclusion that the US had to attack Iraq
> > now and take out Saddam Hussein.
> >
> > Rumsfeld had not the power to even be Ahab, if one wants to work that
> > metaphor; he was Stubb if anyone. Bush would be Ahab if he hadn't
> > let Cheney be him.
> >
> >
> >
> > On Sun, Sep 12, 2021 at 4:04 AM Thomas Eckhardt <
> > thomas.eckhardt at uni-bonn.de> wrote:
> >
> >> Rumsfeld as Ahab?
> >> > The “it,” then, that Rumsfeld wanted to destroy on 9/11 was almost
> >> > certainly every frustration he felt at the rest of humanity.
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