Rumsfeld, Circa 2006: We Need Another Terrorist Attack
In December, 2006, former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld addressed a cadre of news network “military analysts”. He apparently didn’t understand why Americans voted the GOP out of congress the previous month. According to Rummy, maybe it was time for another terrorist attack to wake people up.
A few weeks ago, it was revealed that the Pentagon was deploying “military analysts” (retired military personnel) to each of the major news networks, in order to catapult the Bush administration’s propaganda on Iraq. It’s pretty clear why this scandal didn’t get a lot of play in the media: the media enabled it.
In an effort to come clean on the scope of the program, the Pentagon did a document dump last week. A short transcript taken from an audio recording of Rumsfeld speaking to the analysts in December, 2006 is quite revealing, in terms of the mindset of the neocon contingent of the Bush administration. As you read these words from the former Secretary of Defense, days before his resignation and in the wake of the sweeping Democratic Party congressional victories a month prior, if you don’t get a chill down your spine, then either you’re not living in America (or you’re vacationing in a very warm spot):
“This President’s pretty much a victim of success. We haven’t had an attack in five years. The perception of the threat is so low in this society that it’s not surprising that the behavior pattern reflects a low threat assessment. The same thing’s in Europe, there’s a low threat perception. The correction for that, I suppose, is an attack…
So here we have the Secretary of Defense of the United States, sworn to uphold the Constitution and protect the country, waxing philosophic over the short attention span of the American public. He posits to a room full of former military propaganda catapulters that maybe the way to wake people up is for bin-Laden to launch another attack.
Roll that around in your brain for a moment.
And once your head has exploded, consider that (unless Olbermann or Stewart covers it) you won’t hear a peep about Rumsfeld’s words in the legacy media.
Rummy’s ruminations almost give credence to those who have long held that the events of 9/11/01 were, in part, a “false flag” operation.
Update: Media Matters has posted a petition that will be forwarded to all of the major news networks, requesting that they come clean about their role AnalystScam, what they knew, and when. You can sign the petition by clicking here.
Where’s the video?
Rummy’s ruminations almost give credence to those who have long held that the events of 9/11/01 were, in part, a “false flag” operation.
Oh, you mean like Operation Northwoods
Whoops - that was an audio recording, not a video (fixed above). Here’s the link.
Not that it’s any real surprise given the Republican’s entire platform was built on keeping us terrified.
I seem to remember at least one conservative pundit asshole, saying the same thing. I don’t remember who it was precisely. But I’m pretty sure it was a male. Perhaps Glenn Beck or Limbaugh.