(2006-12-03) — Just a day after The New York Times released to al Qaeda a classified memo from former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld regarding options in Iraq, the paper has printed the text of a second top-secret memo from Mr. Rumsfeld to President George Bush.
While the first document dealt with potential tactical adjustments in fighting terrorists, the second offers deeply personal insight into Mr. Rumsfeld’s emotional state in the hours before his so-called “resignation.”
Like the first memo, this one presents a starkly different picture of the man the world knows only from his tough-talking Pentagon news conferences.
Below are a few excerpts from the text of the second Rumsfeld memo which was written the morning after Democrats took control of Congress…
“As you know, Mr. President, this job been an emotional rollercoaster for me. Seems like only yesterday Paul Bremer said “We got him” and then you, me, Cheney and Condi danced till dawn. Ah, yesterday…all my troubles seemed so far away.”
“Of course, reality set in when we learned that it would have been cheaper just to buy the oil from Saddam, than to overthrow his government.”
“I’m now up to two packs a day of Kleenex…just weepy all the time…Why is this happening? What’s wrong with me? I can barely stand to look at myself in the mirror, and I only tolerate it long enough to shave, mask and moisturize.”
“Mr. President, I admire your resolve and I want to believe it when you tell me that victory against Islamic terrorists is better than defeat. But then I read The New York Times or watch CNN and I just want to curl up in the fetal position and rock, and rock, and rock.”
“I’m sure you realize that the options I outlined in my last memo were really just a cry for help from a man at the end of his rope. I no longer know what ‘the course’ is, let alone how to ’stay’ it.”
“I’m beginning to think maybe Jack Murtha is right that the only way to win in Iraq is to intentionally lose, so at least we can say we accomplished what we were trying to do.”
“I can hear my mother’s voice saying, ‘Pull up your socks, Donny, and give it another go’. But my inner child tells me to just pull the quilt up over my head, and listen to the soothing sound of Rosie and the girls on The View.”
Sign me…Perplexed at the Pentagon
37 responses so far ↓
1 R.A.M. // Dec 3, 2006 at 9:47 pm
I wonder if ‘Rummy’ knows Rosie is going to be on Letterman tomorrow?
2 R.A.M. // Dec 3, 2006 at 9:49 pm
Oh, and it won’t be long until the 10 millionth visitor!
Is millionth a word?
3 onlineanalyst // Dec 3, 2006 at 9:54 pm
Has Rummy been negatively influenced by that Voinovich poofster?
4 camojack // Dec 3, 2006 at 9:58 pm
I wonder if they’d print his favorite recipes, if they got a hold of ‘em…
5 onlineanalyst // Dec 3, 2006 at 9:58 pm
I guess with this emotional collapse, the Donald won’t be getting his cut of Halliburton wealth from Dead-Eye Dick.
6 onlineanalyst // Dec 3, 2006 at 10:03 pm
No, camojack, but they will post photos of his home.
(Funniest thing, that: In a recent article about Harry Reid, the interviewer who wrote the sycophantic piece for a Nevada paper, described the soon-to-be-majority- leader’s home but said that photos could not be included for reasons of security.)
7 Scott Ott // Dec 3, 2006 at 10:05 pm
2nd Leaked Memo Reveals Rumsfeld Pain in Final Hours…
by Scott Ott(2006-12-03) — Just a day after The New York Times released to al Qaeda a classified memo from former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld regarding options in Iraq, the paper has printed the text of a second top-secret memo from Mr…….
8 Suitably Flip // Dec 3, 2006 at 10:12 pm
Rumsfeld’s Parting Memo…
Tomorrow’s New York Times unveils a November 6 memo penned by Donald Rumsfeld entitled “Iraq - Illustrative New Courses of Action.”…
9 CalGirl // Dec 3, 2006 at 10:18 pm
Yeah, I’m guessing that’s exactly what Rummy said.
Snort.chortle.snicker.guffaw.
As if.
10 R.A.M. // Dec 3, 2006 at 10:19 pm
Perhaps Rummy should go out “clubbing” with Paris and Britney to forget his problems?
11 CalGirl // Dec 3, 2006 at 10:20 pm
That’s the ticket, R.A.M! It worked for Brit, right?
12 mig_gee // Dec 3, 2006 at 10:28 pm
Or maybe he should show up as a short little drunk guy with Rosie and the girls and the whole world will laugh at him, I mean laugh with him.
13 mig_gee // Dec 3, 2006 at 10:29 pm
Anonymous is me - mig. I thought I was. Maybe I really am just a nobody. I feel like rolling up into a fetus and just rock and rock and rock somemore.
14 conserve-a-tips // Dec 3, 2006 at 10:41 pm
I gotta question - (game show??) and it doesn’t have anything to do with Rummy really, but did anybody read the article about the Democrats using a liberal minister on their Democrat radio program? They touted him as “nonpartisan”. Does anybody else see a problem with semantics here?
15 onlineanalyst // Dec 3, 2006 at 10:42 pm
R.A.M.: Re #10, I don’t think Rummy would lower himself to be seen with those flash-in-the-pan-ties (so to speak).
16 conserve-a-tips // Dec 3, 2006 at 10:55 pm
OLA, I’m thinking that he will need to be loaded with Prozac or Paxil before listening to that hen’s nest. Perhaps he should start with Dr. Laura.
17 Possumtrot // Dec 3, 2006 at 10:59 pm
I am conufzzled. I think Secretary Rumsfeld would agree with Bernie Goldeberg: I’d rather do hard time in a Ugandan prison than watch “The View”.
My ex-wife thought their commentary was the cat’s pajamas. I no longer wonder at the dynamics of divorce.
18 conserve-a-tips // Dec 3, 2006 at 11:12 pm
Possum, I have always wondered what kind of pajamas cats wear. And if your exwife was caught up in the View, she might as well have been hanging upside down in a tree by her tail to watch, since Rosie is so upside down from reality. Ya know…like a possum…get it? Huh? Yuck Yuck.
19 Ms RightWing, Ink // Dec 3, 2006 at 11:14 pm
When times get tough Rummy can pick up and sing Bridge Over Troubled Waters or sing his own rendition of Moody Blues Melancoly Man
Sorry this isn’t a good satire but it is late. sigh
I’m a melancholy man, that’s what I am,
All the press surrounds me, when my feet was on the ground.
I’m a very lonely man, Sitting on the can
All the words astounds me and I try to understand
The press is going to keep on gnawing, wait and see
When all my stars keep falling off
Into my coffee I start to cough,
And angry voices carry on CNN,
As common-taters will fill your head
And you’ll remember what’s been said
By all the liberal men this world’s ever known.
Another man is what I’ll be,
Cuz CNN really hates you and also hates me,
And yet somehow I will not feel the same,
My life is caught up in misery, CNN doesn’t think like you and me, ‘
Cause they can’t see what you and I can see.
20 conserve-a-tips // Dec 3, 2006 at 11:20 pm
Ms Rightwing Ink - I can’t decide if I’m supposed to go drown myself or turn on country music…you made me too melancholy over poor Rummy. Good one!
21 R.A.M. // Dec 4, 2006 at 12:14 am
Speaking of Danny DUHveto, his making fun of how GWB looks is like Helen Thomas making fun of how Cindy Crawford looks.
The clip I saw of DUHveto on Rosie’s lap, (not that she actually has one anymore), made me think what a great ventriliquist act they could make IF they weren’t BOTH dummies!
Kind of a mixture of dummies and puppets.
22 JamesonLewis3rd // Dec 4, 2006 at 6:56 am
Up until just a very short time ago, one month, Rumsfeld was the devil incarnate. Now, all of a sudden, he’s the LLL/MSM’s darling.
And this only because of their psychotic ability to twist his words to fit their anti-Bush, anti-American agenda and mean something other than what he meant.
23 mig // Dec 4, 2006 at 7:48 am
The View was bad enough BEFORE the failed talk show host/magazine editor joined the ranks of losers-r-us.
24 MargeinMI // Dec 4, 2006 at 8:16 am
I watched about 10 minutes just out of curiosity. Seems to me they should rename the show “Rosie’s View” as no one else could barely get a word in edgewise, even Baba Wawa.
Morning mig! Loved your joke, and soooo on topic.
D
25 Darthmeister // Dec 4, 2006 at 8:22 am
I wonder when the war crimes trials will start for Rummy? I bet the NYT will gleefully cover that, too, maybe even cheerlead.
And speaking of cheerleading, I wonder why Michigan football isn’t playing Ohio State for #1? Another vast reich-wing, neo-KKKon kkkonspiracy for sure.
26 Darthmeister // Dec 4, 2006 at 8:24 am
JL3rd, other conservative bloggers a few days ago were also pondering when the lamestream media would begin rehabilitating Rumsfeld’s public image so they can bash Bush all the more. It will be interesting to watch the endless analysis and feeding frenzy of the hate-Bush media the next few days.
27 Ms RightWing, Ink // Dec 4, 2006 at 9:05 am
Good Morning to each and all
I wonder if the now-in-power Dumercrats will allow Rummy to go to the Old Soldiers Home whence he gets to old to win wars.
Global warming sure freezing them midwesterners half out of their wits. Not to bad here in the dirty old factory town. 18 degrees this morning, but hey, it’s December matey
28 conserve-a-tips // Dec 4, 2006 at 9:38 am
Yep, Ms Rightwing, Ink..that global warming thing is really making a statement here in Okieville. Still have about 6 inches of snow left on the ground and 22 perky degrees. On Wednesday morning I was wearing shorts and a t-shirt. Love that global warming.
Just heard that John Bolten is out. What a disappointment. If Bush were to run again, I don’t think that I could vote for him. He just hasn’t been the strong conservative that I thought he would be. sigh.
29 Maggie // Dec 4, 2006 at 9:59 am
Good Morning everybody!
C.A.T.
There is more rejoicing in the Demoncrats’ camp over the fall of Rumsfeld and Bolton than for the capture of Saddam and the death of Zarkowie(sp?)etc.
It seems we are now no longer the United States but a nation seriously divided.One camp is pro-American,the other anti anything American.How did we get to this place?
But I will………”Never,Never,Never give up”!!!!
30 MargeinMI // Dec 4, 2006 at 10:00 am
Poor Rummy. I feel his pain. [bitinglip]
As far as this latest ‘climate change’, my wish is to eat a whole lot, curl up under the blankey, take a loooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooong nap, and wake up at the end of April or so. Yep, I wanna be a bear.
Rocking is good too.
31 RedPepper // Dec 4, 2006 at 10:01 am
c-a-t: Good morning.
I agree, it’s a shame about Bolton . Not sure Bush could have done anything to save the situation. They’re reporting that it was Bolton’s decision , FWIW .
32 MargeinMI // Dec 4, 2006 at 10:04 am
Maybe KKKarl should squirrel off Rummy and the ‘Stashe to some secret location. They could combine their many moves of stealth, Ninja, and the secret powers of the mustashe to fight for Good! Truth! and The American Way!
33 Shelly // Dec 4, 2006 at 10:40 am
I’m with Maggie. So-called “news professionals” are intentionally oblivious to true threats in the world, because they are so single minded in their wish to bash Bush that they are willing to sacrifice every molecule of professionalism, truth or ethics, and too many in this country are being fooled by their outright fraud. They scream from the rooftops that Bush should acknowledge every mistake, and then throw tantrums when bloggers point out that they are reporting known lies and doctored photos. I shudder to think what it will take to wake the country up, when six people behave so suspiciously on an airplane that the other Muslims on the plane applaud when they are taken off, and the media is intent on having us all killed, because that would be preferable to doing something they can pretend is politically incorrect.
Possum’s ex-wife isn’t the only one viewing the world upside down.
34 Just Ranting // Dec 4, 2006 at 10:47 am
R.A.M. re:10
Sweet Mercy from Heaven, I hope he’ll bw wearing his skivees.
35 Maggie // Dec 4, 2006 at 11:07 am
Shelly…re #33
Great post! Wish I had said that.
36 da Bunny // Dec 4, 2006 at 11:16 am
Nothing is “top-secret” in the leaky atmosphere of D.C. anymore.
There is nothing “soothing” about the sounds of “Rosie and the girls” on “The Spew.” I don’t tune in, but have seen enough snippets of it to know that O’Blowhole’s rantings even drown out the grating noises coming from ultra-lib Behar.
Best new names for that ugly little moron Danny DeVito that I’ve heard thus far:
- Danny De”Vino”
- Danny De”Whino” [courtesy of my husband]
Good to know that he and his repulsive, reptilian wife defiled the Lincoln Bedroom when Slick was in office, too. Thanks for that revelation, you pathetic drunk!
37 JamesonLewis3rd // Dec 4, 2006 at 11:53 am
Remember back in the day…..
A person is having a meltdown-ranting and raving and flailing about, endangering themselves as well as those around them-and a level-headed person would either throw water in their face or (gasp!) slap them?
The United States of America is to that stage.
You woulda thunk that 9/11 would have been sufficient.
It may be that the USA has already passed that stage. I can’t help wondering if, say, [pick a city] was leveled by a terrorist nuke, we would snap out of it even then.
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