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Andre II Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-17-06 09:01 AM
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Rummy on 911: Censorship on wikipedia?
Edited on Fri Mar-17-06 09:41 AM by Andre II
Just checked out wikipedia on 911. While wikipedia has many interesting articles eg on many political issues I was a bit shocked to say the least.
We all know what Rummy did on 911.
He did the same as Bush boy.
The same as Myers.
The same as Wolfowitz.

Nothing. No decision taken.

Now, read this discussion and see how somebody tries to post this well known and sourced information on wikipedia and always get censored by the chief.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Donald_Rumsfeld#Controversy

How shall the word come out if even the free encyclopedia refuses to bring the most obvious stuff?
Rove is not working in his free time for wp??
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MrSammo1 Donating Member (788 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-17-06 01:43 PM
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1. How shall the word come out if even the free encyclopedia refuses to bring
It's good to be king!

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medienanalyse Donating Member (727 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-18-06 06:24 AM
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2. whatever the opinion may be
.. but I understand that Wikipedia "officials" try to block ANY information about Rumsfeld on 9/11.

Imagine a person one century later: he/she might get out that 911 was an important date. America was under attack. So what did the secretary of defense do that day ?

I cannot imagine that the question could be said to be not important.

So Wikipedia allows censoring of information.
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medienanalyse Donating Member (727 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-19-06 04:40 AM
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3. nobody is interested in Wikipedia ?
I cannot believe it.
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kerry_s Donating Member (101 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-19-06 08:54 AM
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4. Censorship?
Quotes from Wikipedia:

In 1976, a military recruit in New Jersey died from a flu that experts speculated might be the "swine flu". At Rumsfeld's urging, the Ford administration quickly produced and distributed large number of doses of the vaccine. However, some batches were contaminated and 52 people died while 600 fell ill. The program was stopped and nobody got swine flu.

During his period as Reagan's Special Envoy to the Middle East (11/83-5/84), Rumsfeld was the main conduit for crucial American military intelligence, hardware and strategic advice to Saddam Hussein, then fighting Iran in the Iran-Iraq war. During this period, US policy supported Iraq, believing it to be a useful buffer against Iran's new religious government, although the United States had originally been hesitant to work with a Soviet client state. When he visited on December 19-20, 1983, he and Saddam Hussein had a 90 minute discussion which covered Syria's occupation of Lebanon, preventing Syrian and Iranian expansion, preventing arms sales to Iran by foreign countries, increasing Iraqi oil production via a possible new oil pipeline across Jordan.

Rumsfeld was a founder and active member of the Project for the New American Century, whose goal is to "promote American global leadership" and which in September 2000 proposed to invade Iraq.

As Secretary of Defense, Donald Rumsfeld has come under fire from critics who argue that his decision to detain alleged-enemy combatants at Guantanamo Bay is a violation of the Geneva Convention and runs counter to American legal traditions.

Some critics have also argued that Rumsfeld should be held responsible for alleged war crimes committed by the U.S. military in both Afghanistan and Iraq. Several publications, including The Economist called for his resignation following the Abu Ghraib scandal.

"...or the people who attacked the United States in New York, shot down the plane over Pennsylvania and attacked the Pentagon" (a possible slip up referring to the September 11, 2001 attacks<2>)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Rumsfeld

So where is the censorship??? I dont see it.
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medienanalyse Donating Member (727 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-19-06 01:04 PM
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5. So where is the censorship??? I dont see it.
hitler

- was ugly
- did not like the jews
- his policy in economics was not wise
- entered Austria with his army
- made a contract about czechoslovakia

So where is the censorship??? I dont see it. ???

It is not the amount of criticism. There is NO ENTRY about Rumsfeld sitting on his hands on 9/11.
The entries already made were not edited but just cut out. Removed completely.
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Andre II Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-20-06 04:02 PM
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6. Any possibility
for DUlers to join this discussion on wiki and change the presentation of the Rummy file?
I mean if anything is pure fact than it is the sitting on his hands of this person and his assistant.
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