Or was it Zeus. Rummy's the bureaucrat with the lightning bolt in his hand, like the God of War, THOR.
"Thunderbolt of lightning, very very frightening me.
Galileo Galileo , etc."
BYLINE: Rumsfeld peppered his war reports with Bible quotations for his millenialist boss to feel that he was winning against Gog and Magog (I exaggerate not).
Rumsfeld, a lifetime Washington bureaucrat, starting in the time of Nixon/Kissinger, i.e. baptised in evil, he progressed regularly, due to his Machiavellian streak, to become a star of evening television during the Bush43 Oily Iraq massacre's early years, spicing up his reports to match with Bush43's apocalyptic view of the world. He added appropriately abstruse quotations from the Bible in order to impress the boss; uh, not Cheney, okay? (I'll bet he was snickering behind GWB's back the whole time:
"The sword of God. My ass! Pfffft. Haaaa."LOL : D
This is in the story below.
digression: Bush talks WMD, but thinks Gog and Magog while Cheney goes for the oil and public works, and the army starts killing anything that moves. Sounds like a kids' cartoon, innit?
[my comments- Costick67]
by Ali Frick from Think Progress, found on alternet.org,
In a lengthy article on Donald Rumsfeld’s rocky tenure as Defense Secretary, GQ published never-before-seen cover sheets from top-secret intelligence briefings produced by Rumsfeld’s Pentagon. Starting in the days surrounding the U.S. invasion of Iraq, the cover sheets featured inspirational Bible verses printed over military images, "and were delivered by Rumsfeld himself to the White House” to the president, “who referred to America’s war on terror as a ‘crusade,[boom, there it is]’” GQ writes. Below are some examples of the Bible quotes (view the images here):
“Therefore put on the full armor of God, so that when the day of evil comes, you may be able to stand your ground, and after you have done everything, to stand.” [The quote appears over an image of a tank at sunrise] [Ya, but you're not supposed to go looking for trouble, you arse!]
“Commit to the LORD whatever you do, and your plans will succeed.” [The quote appears over an image of a soldier in Baghdad] [transliteration: kiss your ass goodbye]
“It is God’s will that by doing good you should silence the ignorant talk of foolish men.” [The quote appears over an image of Saddam Hussein] [transliteration: an eye for an pen] [I can just see Sargeant Idaho saying "God says I'm doin' good by killing the Brownies." Aaaah, GOTCHA! That's taking God's name in vain! That's a commandment you're *&%$^ing with, buddy!]“
“Open the gates that the righteous nation may enter, The nation that keeps faith.” [The quote appears over an image of tanks entering an Iraqi city] [Who needs that kind of faith? "Either you're with our faith, or you're in Gitmo."] [See also the evangelical soldiers proselytising in Afghanistan; it's always gotta be a crusade, innit?]
GQ’s Robert Draper writes that when colleagues complained to the Pentagon official who came up with the cover sheets, he replied, “‘my seniors’ — JCS chairman Richard Myers, Rumsfeld, and the commander in chief himself [For those who don't speak Amerkan, that's Bush43] – appreciated the cover pages.”
Ali Frick is a Research Associate for The Progress Report and ThinkProgress.org at the Center for American Progress Action Fund
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I would like to think that modern culture might also have a few messages for Rummy to use when explaining his own fate. For example,
Queen: Bohemian Rhapsody
(Words and music by freddie mercury)
Citation:
Caught in a landslide-
No escape from reality-
Cryptic meaning: Once you start a war, it's like a snowball rolling down a hill. And then it buries you alive.
Open your eyes
Look up to the skies and see-
Cryptic meaning: Look to God for the answers. Don't assume that He approves of you plagiarising some of his better tracts.
Mama,just killed a man,
Put a gun against his head,
Pulled my trigger,now he's dead,
Cryptic meaning: Mama is Bush43. It was his gun; he ran the army. However, he used Rummy's trigger to do his killing for him.
Mama,life had just begun,
But now I've gone and thrown it all away-
Cryptic meaning: Nothing. This is just me having a laugh at a crusty old bastard whose "best days" are long gone, if he ever had any.
Carry on,carry on,as if nothing really matters-
Cryptic meaning: Nothing does matter when you're a megalomaniac. You don't even have to recognise your own mistakes.
Goodbye everybody-Ive got to go-
Gotta leave you all behind and face the truth-
Cryptic meaning: (Inside Rumsfeld's mind at his last press conference) I just got my ass canned by monkeyboy. I failed in the big leagues. It also goes to show you what happens to someone who speaks the truth to power; death. see Socrates also.
Rumsfeld's well-thought-out words were:
1 "There's another way to phrase that and that is that the absence of evidence is not the evidence of absence. It is basically saying the same thing in a different way. Simply because you do not have evidence that something does exist does not mean that you have evidence that it doesn't exist." -on Iraq's weapons of mass destruction
and , more decisively,
2 "Reports that say that something hasn't happened are always interesting to me, because as we know, there are known knowns; there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns -- the ones we don't know we don't know."
Galileo,galileo,
Galileo galileo
Galileo figaro-magnifico-
Cryptic meaning: The geo-centric view of the cosmos was disproved in the 15th century, but that doesn't matter to us creationists.
Beelzebub has a devil put aside for me,for me,for me
Cryptic meaning : none needed. Rummy talks to the mirror. I foresee a Tony award for somebody.
-Costick67 ( 8^P
