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sabra Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-10-07 09:24 AM
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Rumsfeld asked if he sleeps okay: "I do. Always have."

http://men.style.com/gq/features/landing?id=content_5896


OFF THE RECORD WITH DON RUMSFELD
The much maligned former secretary of defense talks about his time in office—and insists he has nothing to apologize for




<snip>

We move on to some photographs. DHR in his Princeton-graduation photo, DHR on a unicycle, DHR with Gerald Ford in bedroom slippers. And a really creepy shot of DHR's face on a shooting target in Iraq. "These were found in the terrorist training camp," he explains. "Before the war even started, they were there."

With you as the target?

"Yeah. When we conquered Baghdad, we went into this terrorist training camp and this was their target, all over the place. They were using these."

...

He did. First of all, "we—without separating me from the others—we tried not to have that happen. We tried to get Saddam Hussein to adhere to the U.N. resolutions. We tried to get other countries to put diplomatic pressure on him. Even at the very end, we tried to get him to leave the country and seek safe haven elsewhere so that that"—he means the war—"wouldn't have to happen. And before the war, I sat and—this is on the record, all of this—I sat down and handwrote fifteen, twenty, twenty-five things that could be…could go wrong, could be real problems."

He says he will show me the memo. (And eventually, he does. It's just as he describes it.) "I wrote down all of the things that could be problems: That we wouldn't find weapons of mass destruction. That there'd be a Fortress Baghdad, and a lot of people would be killed. All of this… I read it in a National Security Council meeting. Then I went back to my office—I had handwritten it—and I dictated it and added four or five things. And I think there's probably thirty items on it. And then I sent it around to each of the members of the National Security Council, to the president and the vice president. So that all of them had in their heads the things that were difficult, problematic, worrisome, dangerous."

...

But you sleep okay?

"I do. Always have."

No nightmares?

"Nope."

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spanone Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-10-07 09:26 AM
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1. Alert me when he reflects on his time in prison.
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madokie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-10-07 09:45 AM
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6. same for me
I sure hope its solitary too
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Solly Mack Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-10-07 09:28 AM
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2. interview with a war criminal
of course he sleeps well...

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NewJeffCT Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-10-07 09:31 AM
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3. I'm not surprised
After all, he hasn't exactly demonstrated that he has a conscience, or a soul.
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SammyWinstonJack Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-10-07 09:34 AM
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4. Monsters and nightmares, starring DHR.
I don't know how he can live with himself, never mind sleeping peacefully. :shrug: Bu$hco=Monsters, Inc.
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Warpy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-10-07 09:35 AM
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5. Envy the psychopath
No matter how hideous his actions, he always sleeps like a babe.

I'd still rather see one than be one, though.
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donsu Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-10-07 09:59 AM
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7. pills
nt
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Vinnie From Indy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-10-07 10:00 AM
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8. That is because Rummy is a psychopath
Psychopaths are people that are missing the basic human emotions of empathy, guilt, shame etc. Rummy is a textbook example of this as is Smirky.
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NNN0LHI Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-10-07 10:02 AM
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9. I wonder how he will sleep in a Leavenworth prison cell? n/t
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bdamomma Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-10-07 11:00 AM
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10. still an arrogant shit he is.
Edited on Mon Sep-10-07 11:01 AM by alyce douglas
every dog has its day. these guys will pay sooner or later.
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