Rumsfeld On 9/11 Anniversary: "Defense Cuts Will Lead To More Attacks, Entitlements Are The Reason For Deficit"
We disagree with virtually everything you are about to hear and read, but it's important to know what the neo-con troglodytes are saying.
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Former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld warned that it will only be a matter of time before America endures another terrorist attack if Congress ends up blaming the defense budget for this country’s red ink woes. “The Department of Defense is not what’s causing the debt and the deficit. It’s the entitlement programs,” he told HUMAN EVENTS in an exclusive interview. “If we make that mistake, we’re doomed to suffer another attack of some kind, and our intelligence will be less strong and less effective.”
Before legislators attempt to take out the nation’s crushing debt on the Defense Department, they must understand that spending on the military is low compared with historical averages, said Rumsfeld. He noted that military spending from Eisenhower though LBJ topped 10% of the gross domestic product (GDP), far less than today’s 4.7%.
President Obama has already imposed $400 billion in military cuts, and there could be $800 billion more in slashing to follow in the very near future if congressional leaders do not agree on a debt-reduction deal.
Rumsfeld stressed that the military cuts looming today may be similarly disastrous to those that occurred at the end of the Cold War—a precursor, he claims, to creating the vulnerable environment that bred 9/11. The mindset then was, “we can cut the defense budget, we cut the intelligence budget, and we’ll be okay. The answer was that we weren’t okay. We didn’t have the kind of intelligence capability we needed.”
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Sep 11, 2011 at 11:13 AM
Reader Comments (14)
Fuck you Donnie. I'm not afraid. The only part of you worth a shit is the Rum at the beginning of your surname.
P.S. Remember when you were sent to Iraq to press the flesh with Saddam? Lying cocksucker.
I wrote this post for the children.
How's that working out, Rummy, you douche bag? Yeah, that's right. We got TSA gorillas molesting 6 year-old kids because if they didn't, those damn terrorists would exploit such an obvious security gap.
Instead of moronically speculating about what would happen in his brain-stemmed parallel mis-reality, why doesn't Dumb Don regale us with an explanation for how 2 planes took down 3 buildings in Manhattan?
What's wrong with some people? LOL
DB I'm exposing as many as I can to George Carlin's: THE AMERICAN DREAM.
I watch as they view the video and am amazed that they never considered that maybe a small part of what GC said could be true. They are usually in AWE at first viewing. Several sit in complete silence while I have a big grin.
"They don’t want a population of citizens capable of critical thinking". They probably don't have to worry about that.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xU4GdHLUHwU
I hate this guy, he broke the military and did away with "THE POWELL DOCTRINE" this was put in place after Vietnam War making sure that CIVILIANS stayed out of the PENTAGON, Cheyney and Rummy changed that.
This bitch would not have looked out of place working for Hitler.
I would say Cheyney was worse but technically he is a just a PIG!
So with that said I have to add a "FUCK THIS GUY", he and his idiot cronies "EMPOWERED FASCIST RADICAL MUSLIMS", they have helped bring about the "1 MILLION MAN ISLAMIC ARMY", read about it. They are as "RIGHT WING" as he is.
They are known as "OPPOSAMES", only "OPPOSAMES GOTO WAR" with each other.
They want the same, to destroy "THE MIDDLE".
This guy is the fuck that fucked our futures by radicalizing the middle east, putting guns in their hands and invading their lands.
Their meddling for power and oil has destroyed the world, look around you.
"94%" of collected FED, TAX DOLLARS GOES TO THE MILITARY BUDGET, THE REST IS BORROWED! Rummy your an idiot, you know jack shit.
And rumsfeld and all of his Washington friends were Not Harmed in the making of 911...........Nor were his other friends at The Buildenburg Group, TLC, CFR, Skull & Bones, all alive and well.......
Only real American People were killed that day........Just good ol God Loving American People. I wonder why that is......?
http://www.brasschecktv.com/page/4960.html