"Donald Rumsfeld Is Mad As a Hatter. Shouldn't someone do something? "

Donald Rumsfeld Is Mad As a Hatter
By Stephen Pizzo, News for Real. Posted December 6, 2005.

We now have a certifiable loon in charge of the most powerful military on the face of the earth. Shouldn't someone do something?

Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld is mad. No, I mean seriously ill. Mentally ill. Demonstrably so.

I can't say whether or not he was mad from the start, but I can tell you with some degree of certainty that he is now. And he's getting worse. Each successive news conference he sounds more and more like the character, Dr. Charles Montague, who was head of "The Place for the Very, Very Nervous" in the 1977 Mel Brooks flick, High Anxiety.

So we now have a certifiable loon in charge of the most powerful military on the face of the earth. Shouldn't someone do something? I mean, if Bush insists on having a nut in this post, at least hire a harmless nut. The world is full of them. He could find less nutty nuts downtown in any major city. Pick one with less dangerous notions than Don has. That way the weekly Pentagon news conferences would continue being ever so entertaining, but fewer people would get killed.

It's time for someone to tell Donald Rumsfeld, "No more fruit cup for you!"

http://www.alternet.org/waroniraq/29101/

(BTW, he was looking uncharacteristically pale.)

The solution I was thinking about is unpublishable.

(Oh, Christ, I've got to start having more compassion for the mentally ill!)

Could the Rumster have been trying out Tammy-flu on HIMSELF??

Think of the effect on the comedy business!

Otherwise yes, he's quite mad.

"If I know the answer I'll tell you the answer, and if I don't, I'll just respond, cleverly."

"Should I be hauled off in a straightjacket for the good of the nation? Yes, that would be a prudent move. Will I continue to ask questions and then answer them myself? Yes, you can bet your sweet bippy I will."

That's the political society we live in, he's just the result of it. He and the rest of the corrupt "leaders" can say whatever they want, regardless of how insane it sounds or actually is.

The people of the U.S. are insane, at least 1/3rd of us are.

In the nation of insane people, the rational are lunch.

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Don got so nutty during his weekly news conference last week that Joint Chiefs head, General Pace, had to reel him in; not once, but twice. The first time was when Pace used the accepted term, "insurgents," to describe the indigenous fighters in Iraq.

Rumsfeld interrupted, waving both hands over his head, to announce that over the weekend he had had an epiphany. We've been using the wrong term entirely to describe the Iraqis killing our troops over there, he pronounced from on high. They are not "insurgents," they are "Enemies of the Legally Elected Iraqi Government," or EOLEIGs. (Guess we know now why Donald never made it as a corporate jingle writer.)

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The second time General Pace had to reel Rumsfeld in was when Pace was asked by reporters if U.S. troops in Iraq were supposed to step in and stop Iraqi troops from abusing fellow Iraqis. Pace was in the process of giving the right answer (Yes), when Don-in-the-Box popped up again. "No, no that's not their job," he corrected the general.

Pace had no choice. "Ah, well, yes sir, but if our troops are there they are supposed to stop such behavior."

The look on Rumsfeld's face was the same look parents get when they tell their teenagers, "If your friends start drinking or using drugs you leave that party and come straight home!" You know the look -- the eyeballs rollup as the head jerks dismissively to one side.
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and he has totally ruined our military